Japanese Progressive Rock presented by DamoX

Yes, I think they think that's very cool, but you'll never find out who signed what unless you put some sort of identification tag, Keishiro. 

Edited by CCVP - June 29 2012 at 21:53

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LOL but ture. 

Very tough for me to evaluate this album, a splendid Japanese RIO production though.


Ken'ichi TAKEDA (A-MUSIK)

A Japanese short-lived obscurity A-MUSIK were temporarily formed as an experimental music ensemble featuring Taisho-Goto played by Ken'ichi TAKEDA, the project leader of this combo. "E Ku Iroju" (1984) was their one and only album, in collaboration with Ryuichi SAKAMOTO (piano, ex-YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA), Tori KUDO (keyboards, synthesizers), Masami SHINODA (saxophone, ex-PUNGO) and so on, released via a Japanese experimental music label Zeitgenössische Musik Disk. Sadly another creation of A-MUSIK "Ikiteru Uchu Ni Mirarenakatta Yume Wo" has not been released, whilst they had disappeared from our sight.


E Ku Iroju (1984) - A-MUSIK

For me sounds like a cynicism and an antithesis against the Japanese policy of aggression upon the World War II, especially as for the first track upon Side B "Anti-Jap Rap (Han-Nichi Rap)" or the second one upon Side A "Vorwatz Suite" really, but mysteriously no review written about this issue has been seen around me.

Their album diagram can be thought exactly as Japanese RIO, that reminds us something like another Japanese RIO album named Taco, released two years before. Their cynical pop tunes merged with quirky saxophone snake snipes and weird Taisho-goto flows like the beginning of "La Guêpe" by Bernard Vitet are well-matured and spooky-flavoured. Amazing for every RIO / Avant fan all around the world I guess actually ... we can hear another attraction in "On Suicide (Jisatsu Ni Tsuite)", featuring sensual female voices and saxophone explosions respectively, or a confusion with sticky swing-jazzy creampie and unpolished avantgarde jazz cramp in "There Will Never Be Another". With the danceable but not comfortable one "I Dance" we cannot dance.



Sadly for every Taco freak their aggressively-shouted saxophone-based extreme avantgarde jazz attitude is a bit monotonous and not so enough freshness can be heard as Taco. By the way, it's said A-MUSIK were founded as a short-lived temporary unit so that I'm afraid this "E Ku Iroju" might be a compilation, without any united whole. Every musician joining this combo should be a renowned, skilled one indeed, but it's a tough call in this commune not harmonization but serious music quarrels can be heard. I can appreciate this album much if it's simply a compilation, not a music theatre creation.

And let me say in conclusion, the first track "El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido" is pretty fascinating, featuring Ken'ichi's beautiful Taisho-goto weirdness, his sixth sense!



A-Musik have been recommended by Alex (Sheavy) ... thanks Alex!


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Oh I’m not going to talk about Japanese Progressive Rock but progressive ambient created by two Japan (and Japanese Language) freaks ... Alan aka colorofmoney91 and Vompatti!


Hanashukketsu; Alan BOROKKUEI and VOMPATTI

HANASHUKKETSUwere founded as an experimental ambient duo by VOMPATTI (synthesizers, drum machine, percussion, noises) and Alan BOROKKUEI (guitar, banjo) in 2012. In the same year they’ve released their first creation "Ceramic Knives", as freely downloadable material in their Bandcamp or Soundcloud (see below).


Ceramic Knives (2012) - HANASHUKKETSU

Dissonance is sweet for me indeed.

This eccentric sound commune is HANASHUKKETSU's first work (actually, "Hanashukketsu" is a bit strange for Japanese but who cares?), created by two killas "ambient-drenched wombat" VOMPATTI and "bizarre noise freak" Alan BOROKKUEI. Veiled in mysterious atmosphere - sometimes warm and sometimes icy - their bleeding story about sharp-edged "Ceramic Knives" goes ahead. Sounds more ambient than rock for me really, but I can get absorbed into their fanatical dissonance with fragile optical glasses. Alan's lovely (but seriously improvised) guitar work and Vomp's synthesizer-based deep dreadfulness can get entangled with each other, and together accelerate their motivation for creating their original dark moon, where their fresh blood sometimes snaps aggressively and sometimes flows delicately.

The two tops play improvisation mysteriously - we can feel it dissonant I guess. And let me say, Vomp's dreadful synth horror can cheer Alan's slender guitar work up, and on the other hand, Alan can shoot Vompatti's splendid darkness up more and more. Exactly one killa and one killa are not only two, but many of anti-harmonized deliveries. Amazing.


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Anyway, can be read as "Bi-shukketsu", not "Hanashukketsu" lol.


Thank you for reading this bizarre. 

Exactly.
Very good your original eccentricity is, at least for me.

DamoXt7942 wrote: Oh I’m not going to talk about Japanese Progressive Rock but progressive ambient created by two Japan (and Japanese Language) freaks ... Alan aka colorofmoney91 and Vompatti! Hanashukketsu; Alan BOROKKUEI and VOMPATTI HANASHUKKETSUwere founded as an experimental ambient duo by VOMPATTI (synthesizers, drum machine, percussion, noises) and Alan BOROKKUEI (guitar, banjo) in 2012. In the same year they’ve released their first creation "Ceramic Knives", as freely downloadable material in their Bandcamp or Soundcloud (see below). Ceramic Knives (2012) - HANASHUKKETSU Dissonance is sweet for me indeed. This eccentric sound commune is HANASHUKKETSU's first work (actually, "Hanashukketsu" is a bit strange for Japanese but who cares?), created by two killas "ambient-drenched wombat" VOMPATTI and "bizarre noise freak" Alan BOROKKUEI. Veiled in mysterious atmosphere - sometimes warm and sometimes icy - their bleeding story about sharp-edged "Ceramic Knives" goes ahead. Sounds more ambient than rock for me really, but I can get absorbed into their fanatical dissonance with fragile optical glasses. Alan's lovely (but seriously improvised) guitar work and Vomp's synthesizer-based deep dreadfulness can get entangled with each other, and together accelerate their motivation for creating their original dark moon, where their fresh blood sometimes snaps aggressively and sometimes flows delicately. The two tops play improvisation mysteriously - we can feel it dissonant I guess. And let me say, Vomp's dreadful synth horror can cheer Alan's slender guitar work up, and on the other hand, Alan can shoot Vompatti's splendid darkness up more and more. Exactly one killa and one killa are not only two, but many of anti-harmonized deliveries. Amazing. Bandcamp Facebook Soundcloud Anyway, can be read as "Bi-shukketsu", not "Hanashukketsu" lol. Thank you for reading this bizarre.

i love ruins !!

I have problems with my home PC and I have "illegally" downloaded your album from my workplace. That's what I mean for "illegally" .

In a City Lining wrote: i love ruins !!

Yeah.
And where have you go away?

^ Ahhhh Tamijo, sorry for my belated reply but there are very few progressive rock CDs in Fukuoka or Tokyo ...
You can find something great upon Amazon, eBay, or so ... my two yen.