This is a july 2009 release ; kind of insane set from Tori Kudo, here leading a small chamber ensemble through 177 (one-hundred-and-seventy-seven) “cues” ranging from short mood pieces (and by short, i mean short ; some are only a few seconds long) punctuated by a good 10 seconds of silence between each take, and a couple of song-length things in there. The name Maher Shalal Hash Baz comes from the book of isaiah, meaning “plunder quickly.” tori kudo, their conductor and band leader, fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz and experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. c’est la dernière chanson [klp210] is compact and richly melodic; forgotten melodies played with a fragile trust.