Japanese Progressive Rock presented by DamoX

Apologies if any of these artists have been mentioned already, but I've recently been getting more into the Japanese experimental scene and have been pretty excited by these acts:

Zazen Boys

The Boredoms

Ruins (and Tatsuya Yoshida's Ruins-alone)

Melt Banana

Vampillia

Mono

Boris

DamoXt7942 wrote: Eetu Pellonpää wrote:  !!! My imagination is obsessed now by visions of "Without humanity, he keeps singing" Haha, shall I send you this terrible video (VHS, not DVD ) ?

 

 !!! My imagination is obsessed now by visions of "Without humanity, he keeps singing"

Mates, check Djamra's Osakan power via this video, please!

Mellotron Storm wrote: I'm so glad your okay Damo.We were down in Florida on holidys when the earthquake and tsunami hit your country. One of my first thoughts was of wondering and hoping that you were okay, and hopefully not anywhere near the where the worst damage hit.Please take care of yourself and i know Japan will eventually be back on it's feet.I also know things won't really be the same after experiencing such a tragedy.

Thanks John ... still now there are serious (and tough) problems in Fukushima, but we all cannot do but pray everything gets better and the workers there can be safe and sound ...

Hello, sorry for my hibernation but I've been a bit pressed with flu epidemic around me, prescription of anti-flu medicine like Tamiflu, Inavir ... I have lots of aged persons who need medicine.

And today please let me recommend this Japanese Electronic bizarre that can surely kick flu epidemic away.



The back sleeve of Delicior Ribbon Pink Beel (anyway, this model of the picture is NOT Ziggy ATEM).

SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM was a short-lived (and maybe one-man) project schemed by an obscure satanic artist Ziggy ATEM. Under the project's name, he released one and only album "Delicior Ribbon Pink Beel" in 1997 (and another VHS videoclip "C.I.A Dryice System" as his solo work in the same year). Although a few times he appeared in TV media later, God only knows which inferno he currently concealed himself into.


Delicior Ribbon Pink Beel (1997) - SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM

Ziggy's unpredictable words in cosmic language he'd received from outer space, and his personal inferno where everything should get warped ... I can find abstraction-ism, that I cannot clarify as a simple phrase in this album.

Basically a Japanese satanic artist Ziggy ATEM is a cosmic soldier who can communicate with aliens in "another" world, and we should consider his project SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM and his creation as a strategy for getting cosmic information via radio wave under spacey condition and as archives of his psychological conversation, respectively. His non-understandable and meaningless words, chatters, shouts can be found purely in "Out Voice" and " Topping Voice", with enjoying (being frightened at?) such an inexpressible infernal mud. Another surprising fact for us is, around Ziggy is his strong maginetic field where everything must get twisted and distorted, no matter how beautiful phrases there are. Even in the third track "Atem E", in that almost all should be pure electric noises, we can realize some faint gracious sounds and phrases ... with broken in pieces completely. Suggest "Clock A Dark Blue" may be much appropriate to be called as an "infernal daredevil", along with much harmful sound material and his crazy words (sorry for my keeping silence about it but his words and phrases are slightly nasty and completely nonsense).

Here let me say, however, his electric noises are obviously different from ones created by another Japanese noise band like Merzbow or Hanatarash, which might have bumped their attitude (including frustration) into their works as keen, knife-edged irritating noises. Ziggy ATEM, I feel, might throw the sound messages from outer space into his creation under schizophrenic mind-altered situation ... so that not aggressive nor violent, but very very tough to understand.

His strong intention to smack and smash every refined stuff into distortion under the remarkable magnetic space can be too magnificent for us to understand him and his creation as a serious, respectable work, proper for evaluation. As honestly I say, the first time I've listened to this album, I got much annoyed and frustrated (and made a decision never to listen again). But believe me, very mysteriously, with listening to his production over and over, something novel can hook my feeling, as though I could grab something understandable via this stuff.

Very amazing indeed. Never recommended as a melodic Electronic, but hope every fan cannot avoid it.




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Edited by DamoXt7942 - April 06 2011 at 18:24

Damo, are you fine?

By the way, DJAMRA will break into Namba Bears, Osaka in March 5, 2011.
I'm sure they're gonna play a fantastic gig, with much Osakan humour ... will report their tremendous (I imagine) stage here.

Let me post my review about the tremendous (expected) stage here. 

snobb wrote: Really interesting experimental music, possibly more on free-jazz side

And they played definite Rock, anybody could not have done in those days.

Thanks Slava for your appreciation.