OPTICAL*8*2-THE LAST WALTZ FROM DISTORTED HONKY-TONK, CD, 1992, JAPAN

Originally conceived of as being God Mountain label head/experimental synthesist/trannie Hoppy Kamiyama's New York-based unit (and which was latterly reconstituted with a Japanese line-up), The Last Waltz From Distorted Honky-Tonk was the striking second album from Optical*8 (and with the *2 appended to their moniker here as a result) in their initial international incarnation. With avant string slinger Marc Ribot prominently featured, we're here treated to one continuous 40 odd minute sprawl of sound that segues between a floppy assed mutant funkiness thats cross-cut by the clattering David Moss-like filagree emanating form the combined forces of Douglas E. Bowne's drums, E.J. Rodrigues's percussion and Steve Eto's metals and garlanded with Kamiyama's key squonk, twinkle, wheeze and wheedle and passages that splay out into a soupy sprawl of seasick improv incident.

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