Samurai Folk-Pop Angst.
The love-child of Ben Folds and The Postal Service, Danny Katz's seventh studio album, "Japanese Satellites" has officially set sail. At ease facing the black and white Qi, Daniel strums humming bird kites into droplets, as Jiuta-Shamisen shadows extend from the rising of the solar disk—enveloping Dan's Tatami seat—toward the setting of the tsunami, as he soothes international audiences with moonlit sheets, such as his Roma-Romance renditions to Lady Gaga and his whimsical Chamelion covers to Missy Elliott, like an eclipsed mirror-inversion. While his concept album produced in 2007, "More Than Meets the Ear: Sections from Transformers the Musical," encapsulates 80s-flavored Jolly Ranchers, "Japanese Satellites" is Danny Katz's first major compilation of original Sumo-Overtures since 2006's "Strangely Beautiful."
