Narcotic Guitar
Narcotic Guitar
表演者: Hanadensha
介质: CD
发行时间: 1996
出版者: WEA/Warner Japan
条形码: 4988707028854
专辑简介
The Boredoms have gotten quite a lot of press in the U.S. over the past decade, since they first made a splash with their Pop Tatari album, released over here by Shimmy-Disc. Not as well-known, however, are numerous side projects by the members, including Eye's Hanatarash and UFO or Die; Yamamoto's Omoide Hatoba and Novo Tono; and Yoshimi's OOIOO (though their new album has just been released domestically). We're here now to talk about Hira's long-running group Hanadensha.
Boredoms bass player Hira is the vocalist in Hanadensha -- the name means something along the lines of "Electric Flower Car". The group first appeared with two albums of heavy, psych-tinged rock on Osaka's Alchemy Records label, before making a remarkable transformation into a formidably lysergic entity releasing some of the most spaced-out music I've encountered recently. Aside from an early change of guitarists, the lineup has remained quite stable: Hira on vocals; Aoyagi on guitar; Yokota on bass; and Tatekawa on drums. On the recent spacier releases, keyboardist Ieguchi joined the group.
Unfortunately, nobody has yet licensed any of the Hanadensha records for domestic release, but perhaps someone will wise up and realize that they're too good to not be available over here. Here's a summary of the band's discography. To find these releases now, I recommend trying some of the good mail-order outlets such as Forced Exposure.
Narcotic Guitar CD (WEA/Warner Japan) After several silent years, Hanadensha reappeared in 1996 with this amazing release on, of all things, a major label -- no doubt thanks to Hira's Boredoms association. Subtitled "Imaginary Movie Soundtracks," this album is almost a complete change in style from the band's previous releases. It's almost totally non- rocking, even though the band's lineup is the same (with an added keyboard player). This is a monumentally spacey album, all echoing synthesizers with any drums or guitars processed and made part of the overall groove. The metallic-printed cover art could not be more psychedelic (it was designed, like all of Hanadensha's releases, by Masahiko Ohno, long-time designer of albums from Alchemy Records and other labels), and the music follows suit, with song titles like "Star", "Space", "Sweet/Sky" and "Sea/Smoke". Some of the songs are like spacey lounge jazz ("Sun/Sex"), while others are slowly pulsing drone-rock that groups like Portishead could only dream of making. "Star" is slow surf-rock from Alpha Centauri; "Salamander" is a percussive song that suddenly pulls the drums out from under you and leaves you floating amidst glinting synthesizer bubbles. Really, this is an unbelievably good album for a drifting mind, even without drugs. With them...well, you're on your own.
曲目
1 Sanctuary (6:36)
2 Sun/Sex (11:47)
3 Sugar (2:44)
4 Star (4:21)
5 Stone (1:16)
6 Space (3:26)
7 Salamander (4:47)
8 Sweet/Sky (6:12)
9 Sanders (1:53)
10 Spiral (1:55)
11 Summer/Speed (4:36)
12 Spiritual (2:13)
13 Sacrifice (4:58)
14 Sea/Smoke (6:41)
15 Soul (0:52)