• VA - 'Anthology Of Experimental Music From Japan' CD

This anthology of experimental music from Japan showcases the young generation of musicians alongside established names and provides an insight into the current experimental scene, confirming the adventurous character of the Japanese music research. Modern day noise music has escaped the preserve of academics and avant-garde thinkers. While noise conjures up the image of a cacophonous maelstrom of sound, contemporary improvisers utilize a much broader tonal palate, often offsetting abrasive textures with environmental sound, field recordings, and even silence.

This is especially true in Japan, which has become a global center for the genre, coined "Japanoise". Artists including Haino Keiji, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, and Hijokaidan rank among the scene's most respected and influential names. Some of the elements of traditional Japanese music seem to a novice like mere "noise" and have clear parallels in modern experimental music: a relative absence of harmony; the dissonant tonal clusters produced by banks of sho mouth organs in the court music called gagaku; the spluttering, wheezing, trills and flutter-tonguing of the shakuhachi; the stop-start rhythms, droning, repetitive vocals, and shrill, unmelodious flute of no and kyogen drama; the strident, uartertone jōruri narration and plink-plonk samisen that accompany bunraku puppet theater; and the gaping silences and austere arpeggios plucked out on traditional string instruments like the koto and biwa. No wonder a music coming from the merging of such tradition with new music developments from the West had to take its direction to something "other".

This compilation features: Tukico, Farabi Toshiyuki Suzuki, Ryo Murakami, Mosquito, Kenji Ikegami, minamiryohei, Masayuki Imanishi, Kazuya Ishigami, Kakushin Nishihara, Lynne, Contagious Orgasm, Yuko Araki, Fuguli, and MC LAS. Digipak.



VA - 'Anthology Of Experimental Music From Japan' CD

  • Record Label: Unexplained Sounds
  • Genre: Japanese Noise / Experimental / Musique Concrete
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  • £12.00


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