Based on the concept of a "room" being Takako Minekawa's favorite place for creating music, Roomic Cube finds a place for everything.
Co-written and produced with her friends in Buffalo Daughter, the album stretches her sound: while her more usual style of minimal, poignant songwriting shows up on tracks like "Sleep Song" and "Never/More," the tracks Buffalo Daughter collaborated on reflect the group's affection for busy arrangements and sound effects.
This gives Roomic Cube a somewhat unpredictable feel, but appealingly so.
"Klaxon!" "Wooooog!" and "1.666666" in particular hint at Buffalo Daughter's penchant for noisy funk and rock.
"T.T.T.
(Turntable Tennis)" is a happy medium of the artists' styles, featuring hints of guitars, witty samples and sound effects on top of a ping-pong table rhythm.
Though the album tends to run hot and cold, it ends up being just right.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep SongTakako Minekawa | Takako Minekawa | Play | 03:01 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 2 | Fantastic CatTakako Minekawa | Takako Minekawa | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 3 | Never/MoreTakako Minekawa, Yumiko Ohno, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 04:17 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 4 | Klaxon!Yumiko Ohno, Moog Yamamoto, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 5 | Dessert SongTakako Minekawa, Yumiko Ohno, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 02:59 | 6 MB | 14 MB |
| 6 | DestronTakako Minekawa | Takako Minekawa | Play | 03:57 | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| 7 | Pop Up SquirrelsTakako Minekawa, Yumiko Ohno, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 00:27 | 0 MB | 2 MB |
| 8 | 1.666666Takako Minekawa, Yumiko Ohno, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 06:24 | 14 MB | 48 MB |
| 9 | Rainy SongTakako Minekawa | Takako Minekawa | Play | 02:19 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 10 | Black...WhitePierre Bachelet | Takako Minekawa | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 11 | More Pop Up SquirrelsTakako Minekawa, Yumiko Ohno, SuGar Yoshinaga | Takako Minekawa | Play | 00:49 | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| 12 | Woooog | Takako Minekawa | Play | 03:53 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 13 | T.T.T. | Takako Minekawa | Play | 02:05 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 42 mins | 96 MB | |||||
| 42 mins | 263 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pierre Bachelet | Composer |
| 2 | Buffalo Daughter | Arranger, Producer |
| 3 | Tadashi Matsuda | Engineer, Mixing |
| 4 | Takako Minekawa | Arranger, Composer, Primary Artist |
| 5 | Takeo Ogiso | Photography |
| 6 | Yumiko Ohno | Composer |
| 7 | Sheila Sachs | Artwork |
| 8 | Yasushi Shiota | Engineer, Mixing |
| 9 | Megumi Sigetomi | Mastering |
| 10 | Rumi Suwabe | Hair Stylist, Make-Up |
| 11 | Mariko Yamamoto | Art Direction, Design |
| 12 | Moog Yamamoto | Art Direction, Composer, Design |
| 13 | SuGar Yoshinaga | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |