ZETTAIMU is the name of Japanese guitarist Hisashi FURUE's project, who is attracted by British Progressive rock as much as he is by traditional music and rhythms from his own country. In 1989, six years after its creation, the band recorded a first album called "My Grandma Says...". The next one only arrived about nine years later and was called "In the Decadent Times" (1998): a very good work indeed. In turn, "What Can I Do" was released in 2003. Four years later, ZETTAIMU joins the Musea-Poseidon stable, releasing the brilliant "Miroque" (2007). Either minimalist, experimental, song-oriented, post-rock, gothic ala THE CURE, or Crimsonian, these nine tracks achieve a certain stylistic consistency, particularly through very dark atmospheres, and the presence of female vocalist KANAKO. She confirms, if needed, the immense admiration of Japanese female vocalists for the great Kate BUSH. Here is one more pawn to be observed on the Japanese Progressive rock chess-board !