Monday, October 8, 2012

BASS ARMY-KARADA WA OTO O DASU MONO, CD, 1994, JAPAN


Ginchy, pummeling and darkly funked up in a sorta post-Laswell/post-Elliott Sharp fashion, the avant prog maneuvers this Japanese power trio work their way through are, for better of worse, very 90's sounding indeed. They're also damn fine. The dual leaders of this army are bassists Kato Hideki and Kimoto Kazuyoshi, the former an avant prog and improv scene fixture with a CV spanning collaborations with Otomo Yoshide, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, the latter a one-time bassist for both Ruins and P.O.N. Together with Ground Zero and Novo Tono drummer Masahiro Uemura, they're a modulating hurricane of whirligig motion, albeit one with much of its motion being more supple and restrained than what you might anticipate from their former associations.

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5 comments:

  1. Dillin BrackettOctober 9, 2012 at 3:06 AM

    So glad to see ya back! And with some dope Avant-Prog even!

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  2. cjejonsOctober 10, 2012 at 9:47 AM

    Thanks for this, it is excellent!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM

    Thanks and I will post this link to your page on my site so they can download it from you.
    JJ

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  4. AnonymousOctober 18, 2012 at 7:17 PM

    Thanks for this, really interesting! Very enjoyable from a bassist's point of view, too ;-)
    Kinda like Australia's Phlegm, but more focussed in an avant-prog direction.
    cheers,
    Chris

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  5. EngrudoOctober 19, 2012 at 9:20 AM

    I have been looking for this album since I listened the Bass Army track included in the amazing 'Cosmic Kurushi Monsters' compilation many years ago.

    Thank you very much!

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