Surprisingly, Eddie Marcon is not a surfer person with long, probably curly blond hair. Eddie Marcon is a Japanese band! The label A Colourful Storm is well known for unearthing gems from all over the world, and so »Yahoo No Potori«, originally released on CD in 2009, is no exception. Eight songs with guitar, glockenspiel, clarinet and anti-voluminous female vocals: This work has the beautiful smallness and the emotionally charged seclusion that characterises much of the Melbourne label’s output. It’s not about rousing enthusiasm here. It’s autumn, you’ve grown older, you recognise the intrinsic beauty of falling leaves, life goes on, continues down its path as it always has, and that’s anything but a matter of course these days.
Eddie Marcon consistently follows through with a design for melancholy folk music, the album grows through persistence rather than change. Letting go is rewarded with tranquillity. At the end, there’s still a little something that’s captivating: »Amuinbow« is a song sung by young children, with a children’s melody that unfolds with incredible power, a tremendous amount of melancholy in it, referring in equal measure to the past and the future. Everything hurts because everything is beautiful.
Yahho No Potori
