Audiopile Review: Over the last few years, Japanese composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and electronics experimenter Eiko Ishibashi has emerged as a distinctly distinct musical voice. Given the world’s penchant for pigeonholing musicians (especially, let’s face it, female-identifying musicians) it’s particularly impressive that this emergence has happened largely without reference to her status as Jim O’Rourke’s partner and frequent collaborator. If there’s one association that is helping bring Ishibashi’s consistently excellent music to a wider audience, it’s her ongoing collaboration with filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Her breezy soundtrack for Hamaguchi’s Oscar-nominated ‘Drive My Car’ was an absolute stunner. Now, here’s her soundtrack for his latest, ‘Evil Does Not Exist’. Like Ishibashi’s acclaimed Black Truffle release ‘For McCoy’, this soundtrack exhibits distinct ambient jazz tendencies. It also recalls the melancholy string-driven soundtracks of Max Richter, and the otherworldly electronics-plus-piano duets of Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto. It is, in other words, an exceptionally broad, deep, and beautiful collection of music. Lovely to have this in, given how hard it is to track down a vinyl copy of ‘Drive My Car’. Get more Eiko Ishibashi in your life, while the getting’s good.