Japanese Avant-garde: Agitation/Stillness--Noise/Silence
Japanese Avant-garde: Agitation/Stillness--Noise/Silence
表演者: vava
专辑类型: 选集/合辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2002
出版者: Sub Rosa
专辑简介
About half the tracks appear to be exclusive to this compilation. "As an introduction to Japanese Avant-Garde here are some extracts from David Toop's liner notes: 'Most music in Japan has little to recommend it; it is a sonic equivalent of those brutal concrete towers or the transitory chaos of multi-storey teen-fashion emporia in Aoyama. But a sonic underground thrives, creatively if not financially, and perhaps it should be compared with the shabby Golden-gai drinking dens of Shinjuku, faint reminders of a lost time when desire and transgression shared endless cups of sake with political and artistic radicalism. How is it possible to live within and react against an extremely regulated society, politically moribund, engulfed by consumerism, technological innovation, mediated images, a confusion of influences and traditions? Agitation and stillness may seem to be opposing strategies, yet they converge at a certain point. Surging deep beneath the noir turbulence of Merzbow and So Takahashi, the car crash ruins of Otomo Yoshihide and Ground Zero, the curated urban fragments of Viewmaster, the technocratic complexity of Bisk and Yoshihiro Hanno's Multiphonic Ensemble, the piercing intensity of Sachiko M, the childlike placidity of Aki Onda, Yoshio Machida and Haco, is a conflicting sense of clarity attained through struggle. Out of turmoil, a stained purity is revealed'"
曲目
So Takahashi - Made in U.S.A. (5:38)
Koji Asano - vs Calla (5:00)
Merzbow - Lux Automobile / Krokodil Rock Mix (7:02)
Produced and mixed at Bed Room
All processed by Masami Akita
Haco - Re: Mosquito Illusion (3:55)
Composed and remixed by Haco
Haco: harmonized voices, guitar, synthesizer
Pierre Bastien and his Mechanical Orchestra
Bisk - Smooth-Skinned Woman (4:56)
Composed by Naohiro Fujikawa
From the album Ticklish Matters (Sub Rosa, SR141)
Sachiko M - 2808200 (5:29)
Recorded and edited by Yoshihide Otomo at A-102 Studio in Tokyo
Multiphonic Ensemble - Electric Music Box (4:44)
Composed, written and performed by Hanno Yoshihiro
From the album Cirque (Sub Rosa, SR168)
Yoshihide Otomo - DT-2.01 (2:30)
Recorded by Yoshihide Otomo at A-102 Studio in Tokyo
Aki Onda - Fish Don't Know It's Raining (7:38)
Composed by Aki Onda
Mixed by Zak at St-robo
Produced and recorded by Aki Onda at The Kitchen
Aki Onda: cassette recorder
Momo: synthesizer
Sakana Hosomi: electronics
Jyoji Sawada: fue
From the album Precious Moments (Softl Music, SOM 102)
Yoshio Machida - Afterimage (4:42)
Composed by Yoshio Machida and Aki Onda
Produced by Aki Onda
From the album Hypernatural #2 (Softl Music, SOM 101)
Ground Zero - Live 1992 (1:00)
Recorded live by Kenji Ito at 20000V in Tokyo on March 1, 1992
From the 7" Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver. 1.50 (Gentle Giant, GG701)
Yoshihide Otomo: turntables, guitars
Eye Yamatsuka: voice
Junji Hirose: sax
Hideki Kato: bass
Masahiro Uemura: drums
View Masters - Pachinko Mandala 00 (9:06)
Field recordings by Haco in 1999-2000
Edited and produced by Haco at Mescalina in Kobe, 2000
Takashi Miike - Interview (5:09)
At BIFFF in Brussels, March 2002
Shinya Tsukamoto - Interview (2:25)