Press


Interviews:
Bodyspace.net(Dec/2007,Portugal)
remix #185(Nov/2006,Japan)
L Magazine #380(Nov/2006,Japan)

Features:
BlowUp #114(Nov/2007,Italy)
Schole Vol.3(Oct/2007,Japan)

LushRush Reviews:
"It's a welcome debut release that shows potential for a future riddled with more complicated interplays between acoustic and digital sources."
- Cyclic Defrost Issure#15(AU)

"Midori Hirano is one of those artists that I've been hearing about for a while now and it's lovely to finally hear a full album of material... even more so when it's of this calibre. Beautifully organic sounds with guitars, pianos, strings and subtle electronics that sound absolutely magical. Lovely melodies and hints of the occasional vocal, used more as an accompaniment than to convey lyrics, shine through the mix and the delicate, floating sounds really will delight you. Heartfelt music with more than a little emotion brought to you with passion and grace. Recommended."
- Smallfish Records(UK)

Midori Hirano, on the other hand, immediately takes us onto a journey on LushRush, a journey that is highly varied, showing us many beautiful spots and corners. Using instruments such as piano, cello, violin, guitar and digital equipment, we enter into sensitive song structures that are enriched with some noise and field recording, and which sometimes as in Calling are composed of only a few notes. Her girlish voice, which sometimes comes from very far in the back, again and again complements them in a fairy-tale-like manner. Pop pearls from the parallel world.
- JazzThetik(DE)

"The orchestration, is as the albums title implies LUSH... with beautiful violin, cello, & piano melodies voicing a single developing arpegiated theme in varying key's, rhythms & circumstances. This could have the possibility of becomming monotonous but is remidied by Midori feeding in textures of field recordings and understated beats, sometimes processed or as in my favourite Ancient Story In The Room with a well recorded acoustic drum kit. Here the drums punctuate the ambience of the track with a building rhythm that becomes quite anthemic and is in nice contrast to the subtle vocal melody that weaves in and out, hinting at an old rooms contained memories."
- Furthernoise(UK)

"Elle tente ainsi de trouver l’equilibre parfait entre les theories de la musique classique et l'influence de la musique de chambre, les effets, l’habillage sonore, les bruits, les crepitements, les bribes de voix. Autant d'elements qui creent un univers cinematographique, flottant dans des brumes oniriques, comme dans un demi-sommeil."
- Indiepoprock(FR)

"la jeune femme se permet de mettre plus d'effets et de profondeur dans ses compositions orchestrales, entre musique de chambre et post-rock, que rehaussent egalement d’elegants arrangements electroniques."
- Autres Directions(FR)

"Lush Rush consistently lays out images of red-singed autumns gardens, admirable for their coherent design, energy and depth of mood and manner."
- foxy digitals(CA)