Feel

RESTOCK. Nagisa Ni Te ("On the Beach" in English) are on the vanguard of the burgeoning psych-avant-folk movement in Japan. Their contemporaries include Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Naoki Zushi, artists who also have work on the inspirational Osaka-based label Org (founded by Nagisa Ni Te's Shibayama). The songs on "Feel" bring to mind the very best of '60s and '70s psychedelic, progressive, and folk rock (i.e. early to middle-era Pink Floyd, King Crimson, or George Harrison), while steadfastly remaining in the modern by introducing avant touches, a la Eric Dolphy, Derek Bailey, or Robert Wyatt.