Dip in the Pool

Although they presumably named themselves after Roald Dahl’s 1952 short story, art-pop act Dip in the Pool appear to have little else in keeping with bleak narratives of any form. Rather, their name is way better taken at encounter value, as a large proportion output tasks buoyancy and tranquility. The long-running duo includes vocalist Miyako Koda and keyboardist Tatsuji Kimura, who co-write and co-arrange their materials, supported by studio room musicians. Shaped in 1983, they released their initial album 3 years later. It had been among their few albums — most likely the lone one — to become distributed outside their indigenous Japan. Originally self-titled but retitled Silence because of its U.K. concern through Tough Trade, the recording provided the duo’s austere however elegant audio in fully created form, someplace in the world of Kate Bush, the Blue Nile, and a Yellowish Magic Orchestra single task. Through the middle-’90s, Drop in the Pool put into their discography every few years, documenting for Moon and Epic. They required a protracted break, where Koda was area of the short-lived Like, Serenity & Trance (with Haruomi Hosono), released the single recording Jupiter, and continuing her sporadic performing career. Drop in the Pool resumed activity around the Bellwood label through the 2010s. In 2016, the Music from Memory space label reissued the “east” and “western” versions from the duo’s “On Retinae,” both which previously made an appearance on the promo-only 1989 12″ circulated within an release of 50.