usyukuronika

usyukuro sound space

for true connoisseurs of weirdness

2009-11-25 02:09:58 | Weblog
Seeing the track title "Requia for Ethnic Cleansing" on a release on Russian post-industrial label/distributor Zhelozebeton could lead you to imagine something very different to what this actually is. Rather than a dystopian and even slightly suspect post-Soviet soundscape, what you get here is a real oddity - a Japanese act producing what they call "schizopoetry" in a jumbled mixture of various languages.
What this amounts to is a truly strange and esoteric brew which may intoxicate some but will drive away others on first exposure. It will appeal to those seeking something truly strange and hard to imagine. With four tracks and lasting little more than 20 minutes this is a very concentrated dose of 'whatever this is.' The music is proudly irrational and even childlike, deliberately nonsensical and (mostly) terminally obscure.
"Partizan" features desultory acoustic guitar and mumbled, painful, vaguely Tom Waits-like vocals, which is fine if you like that sort of thing. "Ono Sendai" is the best produced and most interesting track. It's a sorted of haunted indietronica that slowly builds into an ambient piece on the lines of Steve Reich's guitar pieces and has a strange charm. "Kurz-y-nuy" returns to a Tom Waits style vocal underpinned by what sounds like a reverse tape loop. "Requia for ethnic cleansing" itself is equally charming and irritating, the falsetto vocal is mournful and evocative. This is offset by muzak elements and what again seems to be a reverse effect. For me this triggers a strange reminder of (and desire to listen to) the dystopian reverse funk of the Bunker Records project Shitcluster, masters of this technique. Eventually gunfire sounds intrude towards the end of the track but in a curiously polite and modest way.
In its own terms and for whatever target audience (if any) that it may have, this brief collection is probably a brilliant success, but its appeal will definitely be limited - this one is only for true connoisseurs of weirdness.

-- Alexei Monroe [4/10]

i should want to be alan lomax in new domain これはルーツを持たない我々の再帰的な言及なのかもしれない。ちょうど僕らはシルクロードとアメリカーナ の場が届かない穴に生まれ落ちた。新しい領域はシームレスで即時的な環境(デジタル)である。 そこで奏でられる音はワールドミュージックと我々が呼んでいるものにちがいない。 deemployedは生産の諸関係の再生産から の抜けおち、つまりは主体化の失敗さらにはルーツをもたない我々の象徴化からの抜けおちをもしめしていないだろうか?

--(japanese)

R.A.A.O

2009-11-02 05:09:41 | Weblog
[R.A.A.O ] "Re-Apocalypse Automatic Orchestra" is an experimental trial using internet functions.This project was started in 1984,by Japanese Artist "SEIEI JACK"(The Joke Project/Re-Apocalypse Project).It consists to join differents artists/musicians in a [R.A.A.O] collaboration program (free Mp3's internet compilation available on Corebackrecords).This project join all kinds of experimental musics:Noize,Industrial,Breakcore,Ambient,Low-fi ... Every persons who whished to participate had only to add [RAAO] samples & loops to their own musical/audio treatment to create their own vision of Apocalypse in a track.R.A.A.O ] "Re-Apocalypse Automatic Orchestra" is an experimental trial using internet functions.This project was started in 1984,by Japanese Artist "SEIEI JACK"(The Joke Project/Re-Apocalypse Project).It consists to join differents artists/musicians in a [R.A.A.O] collaboration program (free Mp3's internet compilation available on Corebackrecords).This project join all kinds of experimental musics:Noize,Industrial,Breakcore,Ambient,Low-fi ... Every persons who whished to participate had only to add [RAAO] samples & loops to their own musical/audio treatment to create their own vision of Apocalypse in a track.