KATRA TURANA-THE END (GRADIENT OF TEXTURE), 12" EP, 1985, JAPAN

The delicate but deformed soundworld proffered by this woefully overlooked unit is a virtual object lesson in how to conjure profound madness from only the daintiest, twee-est ingredients, a tack they share with contemporaries like After Dinner, Luna Park Ensemble and Pungo, though Katra Turana's specific composite takes this warped aesthetic template to even deeper heights of bird-like frailty, only to mindfuck you with a structural rug-pull from under your feet just as you're beginning to question your sanity for listening to such mincing la-di-da-ness. Beautiful sickness from a lost continent of demure Japanese dementia.

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