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Zeuhl World Championship, JNZL Round 4 Qualifiers

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Topic: Zeuhl World Championship, JNZL Round 4 Qualifiers
Posted By: Andy Webb
Subject: Zeuhl World Championship, JNZL Round 4 Qualifiers
Date Posted: August 13 2012 at 21:42
ZEUHL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Last round of qualifiers for the Japanese! Two lesser known projects here again.

Here's the bracket:

The bands in question are:
RYOKO ONO vs. SEKKUTSU JEAN

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7405" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7405
^That's not original content (she is the sax player on Sax Ruins), but it gives a sense of her style

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7091" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7091

Poll ends August 17th.


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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 13 2012 at 21:44
Two very little known projects here. I had heard one song of Ryoko's before this poll and nothing of Sekkutsu. Both have Yoshida's influence, with Ryoko a collaborator of Sax Ruins, and Sekkutsu being practically a Ruins offshoot with a different bass tone. LOL

I'll have to listen to a bit more before voting.


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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 13 2012 at 23:33
Sekkutsu Jean.  And it's not quite a Ruins offshoot, as he only generally plays a mean 4-string instead of 5+. LOL

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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 00:27
You'd be the one to know. Tongue

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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 01:12
Both unknown to me.

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 02:13
I have heard Sekkutsu Jean's self-titled, but not Ryoko Ono's Undine.  I would like to, though.  Here's a review at jazzmusicarchives by js (don't think he'd object to me copy-pasting his review here):

Originally posted by js at jazzmusicarchives.com js at jazzmusicarchives.com wrote:


http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/ryoko-ono.aspx" rel="nofollow - RYOKO ONO http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/ryoko-ono--undine.aspx" rel="nofollow - Undine

Album · 2012 · (Post-70s) Eclectic Fusion  http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/ryoko-ono--undine.aspx#buy-music" rel="nofollow -
3.5/5 ·
http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/js%28member%29.aspx" rel="nofollow - “Undine” is the latest release from virtuoso avant-garde saxophonist Ryoko Ono, and what a tour-de-force it is. Some may be familiar with Ono as part of the highly talented aural onslaught known as Sax Ruins. In fact, her cohort in Ruins, drummer Tatsuya Yoshida is on hand for some very Sax Ruins styled numbers on here too.

Ono’s solo numbers present an interesting variety. A couple cuts keep up a constant drone of notes and show off her circular breathing technique, a favorite with modern extended technique saxophonists. Her rendition of Terry Riley’s “Piano Phase” is sublime and could have gone on for much longer. “Birds” presents a mish-mash of Charlie Parker lines doubled with altered saxes and vocoders and backed by bird noises, its so clever and adorable you could give it a hug.

Most of the rest of this CD consists of Ono and Yoshida’s insanely intense modern big band that they create through multi-tracking Ono’s various woodwind instruments. Together they create some short drumnbass cuts as well as this CD’s centerpiece, a 15 minute version of Emerson Lake and Palmer’s “Tarkus”, …that’s right, that “Tarkus”. I’m sure that most think that a modern punk-jazz big band playing ELP sounds like a disaster, but this one really works. There was always a strong big band flavor to ELP’s music, with traces of Don Ellis, Stan Kenton and Ellington running through their recorded history, the end result is that their music fits very naturally to this medium. The Ono-Yoshida big band sound is like no one else, in their hands this old ELP warhorse takes off at insanely fast tempos that sound like Squarepusher mixed with Don Ellis on 45 rpm methamphetamines. This isn’t something I would want to hear everyday, but as a fan of modern big band music, this is an exotic treat that can’t be missed.

The album closer, “genie-undine”, has no saxophones but instead features Ono’s multi-tracked vocals in a recreation of the old dreamy vocal sounds of Les Baxter. Its short, but its one of the best cuts on the CD and a great way to close things out.





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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 14 2012 at 03:10
Ono

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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 17:53
This has fallen a bit down the line in the poll section, oops. It was supposed to end today but I got backed up so tomorrow will be the day.

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 17 2012 at 19:46
From what I now know, I voted for Ryoko Ono.

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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 18 2012 at 19:48
Get your votes in, last few hours. Ryoko moves on if it's still a tie.

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