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MASONNA - Inner Mind Mystique

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Urashima UMA168 Release Year: 2023 Note: * Inner Mind Mystique, released for the first time in 1996, includes seven studio recordings are making full use skillfully editing how to edit cut-up, in which elaborate lump-sum making has been performed with the effects, burbling electro noises, high-pitched twees, and other sci-fi sounds, erupting out to drown out the screams, as if to make full use of the ancestral vocal sound * - re-issue of CD / 3 x 7" from 1996, lim. ed. 299 copies, A3 poster, inlay Price (incl. 19% VAT): €24.00 More Info Masonna, the moniker of the Osaka based artist Maso Yamazaki, belongs to the second wave of Japanese noise. The name alone, a pun on Madonna’s name by combining the Japanese words Maso (マゾ, Masochist) and Onna (女, Woman), illuminates the wry humour and intensity that rubbles below his work. Masonna claims that his interest in making noise is rooted in childhood encounters with the sounds of destruction on tv. Initially playing in psychedelic rock bands, following encounters with the work of artists like Hanatarash and Nord, he disappeared from view for a number of years, quietly developing his own singular vision of the idiom, before bursting onto the scene in 1987 with a performance style, marked by frenetic energy, damaged equipment, wild body movement, and often personal injury, that quickly set him apart. The following year, he released his debut album, “Like a Vagina” - an overdriven blast of psychedelia and harsh noise - that would rattle everything in its wake. In recent years, Urashima has dedicated considerable energy to slowly returning Masonna’s back catalog to print, many of which were issued in tiny editions and have remained virtually unobtainable since their initial release. The latest among these is the project’s “Inner Mind Mystique”, originally released in 1996 on CD. Comprising seven studio recordings that embark on a full sonic onslaught of few equivalents, the album deftly deploys Masonna’s mastery of cut-up techniques, folding screaming vocalisations, effects, burbling electro noises, high-pitched twees, and other sci-fi sounds into a hurling mass that balances between something deep and primal and futuristic. Each piece is the culmination of a vast array of electronic sound events, meticulously sequenced within a complex vocal fusion of earthly and heavenly sounds that almost transform into a form of violent ambience because of the density and consistency that they display. Immersive and almost transcendental in effect, Masonna’s “Inner Mind Mystique” is unquestionable an high water mark in the history of Japanese noise, taking the extremes of an already boundary pushing genre into the next realm. Truly amazing and not for the faint of heart, Urashima’s beautiful edition of 299 copies represents this masterstroke’s first ever appearance on LP and comes complete with an A3 poster and a cardboard insert, housed in a sleeve faithfully reproducing every aspect of the original 1996 release. An absolute must for any fan of experimental music and noise.