GOEMのフランス・デ・ワードがvital weeklyで008を絶賛してくれてます。007も気に入ったみたい。よかった。
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Great release. Quite powerful. というのは珍しい気がする。
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008は海外からも「すげーよかった」というメールが結構届いていたり、ヨーロッパの反応は非常に熱いですな。日本でもだけど買った人からは非常に評判いいアルバムで、確かにこれだけ濃縮されてれば、と思いますが。
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ちなみにフランスとは違うベクトルですがuplinkの倉持君は
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APHEX TWIN特有の『シャブ中性』が抽出されて、更にまた解体／構築されたような錯覚にとらわれました。気持ちいい音ですけど、何処にも着地しないし次元と次元を行き来しているので確かにヤバい音ですね。
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というコメントを試聴を聴いて漏らしてましたがこれも鋭い。えーと下がvitalからのコピペ。す。007については事実誤認もあるけど、これメルマガだからな^^:
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YUJI TAKAHASHI & KEIICHIRO SHIBUYA & MARIA – DUB LILAC (CD by Atak)
KEIICHIRO SHIBUYA & NORBERT MO¨SLANG & TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA (CD by Atak)

More music that stems from the same tour as ‘Signal To Noise Volume 1’ (see elsewhere), as well as new disc with involvement of Keiichiro Shibuya and Maria, the two founders of the Atak label. They have a disc of improvised music with Yuji Takahashi, who plays piano, computer and voice. Takahashi is already an older gentleman, who released his electronic work (1963 – present) on Atak before (see Vital Weekly 489). Here the three team up, and Shibuya plays on his prophet 5 synthesizer works by himself, Joseph Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage, to which Takahashi adds improvisations on his piano and computer and Maria also computer, and this is certainly one of the more stranger releases I encountered. When I started playing it, I took it out of the machine, to check if I was playing the right disc. It’s a very strange marriage of classical music, electronic, analogue sounds and computerized bleeps – the latter coming from the world clicks and cuts (remember: Atak also brought Stillupsteypa and Goem for instance). Somehow I can imagine that reading this will raise an eyebrow: does this work? And yes, oddly enough it does work. Perhaps twenty tracks, clocking in at almost fifty six minutes is a bit long, but there is enough good stuff to be found here. Very odd mixture indeed.

The other release on Atak is recorded during the Swiss invasion of Japan. It must have been a busy time for the Swiss people with all these playing and improvising. This disc is a bit complicated: it contains seven tracks by all three, and then two by each solo, probably some rework of the original concert recordings – but perhaps not. In the trio-improvisations the computer, keyboard (Shibuya), cracked everyday electronics (Mo¨slang) and guitar, mixing board and headphones (Nakamura) bounce together in a pretty violent fashion. Not really noise in the strictest sense of the word, but in a more crude manner than is usual in the world of improvisation (at least this world), but all three keep their ears open for what the others are doing and the clashes work well. Interesting enough all three like their solo work to focus on rhythmic particles. Nakamura splices them through the use of a no-input mixer, Mo¨slang by creating loops out his own cracked everyday electronics and Shibuya makes them really short, ultra fast and ultra stereo to create a fine woven pattern of sound. I like the fact that these solo excursions are included, so we can our own math’s and see who did what. Great release. Quite powerful. (FdW)
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