Sunday, July 19, 2009

ZYPRESSEN-S/T, CD, 1996, JAPAN


The work of this stunning Japanese R.I.O. outfit is manifestly an outgrowth of the dark chamber rock tradition of the Univers Zero/Art Zoyd/Present axis, but their penchant for folkloric and quasi-romantic themes and instrumental voicings brings this far closer to the territory that Univers Zero leader Daniel Denis was charting on his two solo albums from the early 90's (Les Eaux Troubles in particular) and closer still to that dislocated zone between systemic minimalism and angular art rock mined by Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic and the Mikel Rouse Broken Consort. An embarrassment of riches to explore here, folks. Note: this has been posted elsewhere in the blogosphere, but only as inaccessible-to-many .ogg files, so it felt well worth re-sharing this here.

***************NEW LINK POSTED SEPTEMBER 2012***************

Get it here  


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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 21, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    very cool.... !

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  2. OozlumJuly 29, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    Wonder FULL!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM

    wow, this is incredible, thanks so much!

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  4. AnonymousAugust 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    hi
    what does r.i.o mean?

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  5. vdoandsoundAugust 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    anonymous-Rock In Opposition. Do a wiki search for more info...

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  6. MarcelAugust 25, 2009 at 5:56 AM

    Oh god, i really can't stop listening to this album! But i got two questions:
    Is there any way to find out what the translated title of Nr.7 is?(or maybe just the "japanese characters" so a freind of mine could translate them)

    And i would like to know what other albums "Zypressen" have released, do you know anything about that?

    thanks again for uploading!
    Marcel

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  7. UnknownApril 23, 2010 at 6:12 AM

    AMAZING!

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  8. SonceGribMay 19, 2010 at 3:16 PM

    Great Thanks!!! fantastic Bando!!! Strange Happy Impressions from Our Incredible Childhood!!!!

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  9. AnonymousJuly 17, 2010 at 8:59 PM

    This is so great... why on earth hasn't anyone ever heard of this? I can't even find any info about them online. So the key question is, got any more of this? Would love to know more about the band or hear more of their stuff.

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  10. MikeOctober 5, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    This is a very, very interesting album. Thank you for this. It seems this band also has songs on two compilation albums - "Lost Years in Labyrinth" (on the Belle Antique label) and "Chikai Munashiku" (K-Hin Bros.). Any chance that you or somebody out there has these? They seriously need to be posted somewhere...!!

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  11. AnonymousOctober 6, 2012 at 11:49 PM

    Unfortunately the re-post of this only contains 5 of the 8 tracks. I'm dloading this one at the moment -
    https://rapidshare.com/#!download|238p6|116841494|zypressen_zypressen_1996.zip|94657|0|0

    Will let you know if it is also missing any tracks.

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