Dan / Rothschild / Farmer - Japanese Journey 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Masahiro Saitoh - Japanese Journey [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/11/2012

The continuous change of timbres, lines and textures characterizes the three ensemble pieces on the present portrait album of Lula Romero. Instrumental and vocal parts merge with the manifold interacting live electronics to fluctuating, surreal soundscapes. Sometimes transforming other sounds, sometimes acting as an autonomous sound producer, the live electronics are in first line constructing space. The composer considers spatial elements as an integral part of her compositions and relates them with musical structure and sound material. The ensemble installation 'ins Offene' is - like Romero writes in the score preface - Incha trial to superimpose different spaces and to blend them.Inch Another example is the cycle 'die Wanderung' (the trek/wandering) where reduced sound material moves through various states, parts and instrumental spaces. Romero uses a broad range of compositional possibilities, which includes rule-based composing techniques as well as aleatory elements, and thereby creates complex musical structures. The recordings were produced in collaboration with the Deutschlandfunk and the SWR Experimentalstudio. Interpreters include the ensemble Vertixe Sonora, the Zafraan Ensemble and the vocalists Aki Hashimoto, Silke Evers and Noa Frenkel.

20 years ago Sunburned Hand of the Man released InchHeaddressInch and it cracked there world open. This is not hyperbole. The album resulted in the band becoming the cover children for a scene / genre-defining story titled InchNew Weird AmericaInch by the Wire and also saw the album given a 9.0 / Best New Music tag from Pitchfork (Inch... The music flows so readily with complete and utter disdain for trend and fashion that it feels simultaneously primitive and advanced... Inch). Largely out of print since back then, InchHeaddressInch is back to help put the world back on a better path. Remastered for this 20th anniversary edition freshly from the original masters and housed within a gatefold bearing archival photos, this is true head music for true heads. Tune in, shake yr ass and drop out with this ever-providing slab.1. Shitless 2. Sense of the Senseless 3. The Illness 4. Headdress 5. Yes, Your Highness 6. A Second Guess 7. The Underground Press 8. Unless You Confess 9. End of the Endless