By 1984, the Japanese composer, saxophonist and producer Yasuaki Shimizu was on a creative tear. Two years earlier, Better Days released his algorithmically acclaimed and eternally intriguing solo album "Kakashi", which served as a set-up for "Utakata No Hibi", the third and best album from Shimizu's folkloric synth-pop project Mariah. If history had gone slightly differently, the release of "Utakata No Hibi" would have been followed by an album of hyper-prescient experimental dance music titled "Kiren."  However, due to a lack of interest in "Kakashi" at the time, that run was not to be. Instead, thirty-eight years later, "Kiren" has emerged from the archives through a plush vinyl, CD digital release on New York's excellent Palto Flats label, also home to reissues of "Kakashi" and "Utakata No Hibi".