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WADA, YOSHI - Off the Wall

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: EM Records EM1078CD / Omega Point OP-0006 Release Year: 2008 Note: re-issue of LP from 1985, "a minimalist monsterpiece featuring twin bagpipes, organ and percussion", inkl. long bonus-track "DIE KONSONANTEN PFEIFEN" from 1983 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Vielleicht die (Wieder)-Entdeckung des Jahres, diese ungemein kraftvoll-dronigen Aufnahmen des japanischen Klangkünstlers YOSHI WADA (der auch bei der Fluxus-Gruppe dabei war und Schüler von LA MONTE YOUNG). Meist basieren seine archaischen Klangmonumente auf äusserst lebendige Dudelsack-Drones, bei diesen beiden Aufnahmen (1984 Berlin, erschein 1985 als LP) setzte er noch Orgel & Perkussion ein. Dazu gibt es auf diesem Re-Release noch als Bonus-Stück das 27minütige "Die Konsonanten Pfeifen", das vorher nur auf MC erschienen war. "Digitally remastered, cardboard paper, gatefold sleeve, original 1985 liner notes English & Japanese text Scarce photo. Third installment from the joint production of EM Records & Omega Point. The long-awaited reissue of Wada's 1985 LP Off the wall, recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ('massive', as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), Off the wall features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri. The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynamics of the quartet without losing the meditative delicacy of the bagpipes and the intricacy of their interplay with the homemade organ (constructed by Wada), resulting in a slowly evolving mosaic of combination tones and overtones. Simultaneously static yet changing, rooted and ethereal, homespun and alien, ancient and very modern, the music is created entirely with acoustic instruments but has 'electronic' textures at times, yet is very warm and human, always pulsing, shifting and mutating. EM Records is pleased indeed to release Off the wall for the first time ever on cd, with the bonus track 'Die Konsonanten Pfeifen (The Consonant Pipes)', a slightly earlier recording with Wada and Hankin on bagpipes and Kevin Newhoff on percussion, originally released as a cassette." [label info] www.emrecords.net