Cyclamen
Ashura
Realising Records
14 October 2013

by Ruth Booth

It’s kind of difficult to define a difficult second album when it comes to experimental metal. Essentially, it’s the difference between wilfully unaccessible and accidentally unaccessible – which is akin to finding the bit between scalding hot and freezing on a shower dial. If you like the Yin Yang swing that comes with eschewing genre purity you’ll be amongst fierce fans of 2010’s Senjyu. How you’ll feel about Cyclamen’s far darker follow-up, Ashura, is another matter.

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Cyclamen
Senjyu
Realising Records
25 October 2010

by Tomas Doyle

Cyclamen are nothing if not proof that the standard template of what constitutes a band is something which is being slowly eroded. Advances in technology, home recording equipment and the power of the INTERNET (have you heard about it? it’s brillopads!) has meant that lunatics like Cyclamen mastermind, Hayato Imanishi, can spirit entire albums out of thin air without so much as a visit to a pro recording studio or practice room.

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