hi-posi -- dipole

 

Let's see here...a dipole is an electromagnetic phenomenon while a gluon is an elemental particle. Never had much success with my high school classes involving physics and chemistry. What made me feel even more terrible was that my physics teacher was one of the coolest and wisest educators that I had ever known but even he couldn't help me figure things out. 

Well, anyways, in the world of the band hi-posi, "Gluon" was their June 1998 album and "dipole" happened to be one of the tracks. As has been the case with hi-posi's songs, "dipole" has that avant-pop feeling which doesn't feel like anything familiar at all despite the inclusion of what sounds like ska horns and the omnipresent chugging technopop keyboard (although listening to this YouTube video of their early work montage provides some insights). But what is familiar is Miho Moribayashi's（もりばやしみほ）whispery voice and the whole hi-posi otherworldly esthetic.

hi-posi had been releasing music into the mid-2000s after which Moribayashi under her pen name of Mirey wrote a book called "Girly Fuusui"（ガーリー風水...Girly Feng Shui） in 2007. The book had her giving advice based on her own studies of traditional Chinese feng shui and advanced studies in construction through use of the stylish furniture and home décor provided by the company Francfranc. However in 2016, hi-posi restarted their activities although their website has only provided that year's events. Also, the last time I wrote about the band was back in 2020 with the article for "Ato Nan Nichi?"（あと何日？）.