Drone Records

NULL, K.K. - Fertile

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Touch TO:74

Release Year: 2007

Note: the cybercosmic powerdroner (originally educated as a BUTOH dancer), exploring new paths, using field recordings from the Kakadu National Park - "a spooky soundscape of nocturnal hiss and buzz, parts of it sounding like video games played by insects, others ominous with ghostlike voices buried beneath... chattering rhythmic components underlie what sound like shortwave freakouts, tracks often building to stactic-y explosiveness, droning and noisy, extremely dynamic and distorted" [Aquarius] BACK IN stock

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"Mit über 100 Veröffentlichungen ist Kazuyuki Kishino aka KK Null einer der etabliertesten Avantgarde-Musiker Japans, der unlängst einen internationalen Ruf genießt. Eigentlich ein klassisch ausgebildeter Butoh-Tänzer, arbeitet er seit 1985 als Improvisations-Gitarrist, sowohl Solo als auch mit seiner Band Zeni Geva. Für fünf Alben hat er dabei zusammen mit der Produktionslegende Steve Albini gearbeitet (Big Black, Nirvana, Joanna Newsome), weitere Kollaborationen für etliche weitere Alben beinhalten Zév, James Plotkin, Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), und John Zorn. Für "Fertile" bewegt sich KK Null auf neuen Pfaden. Eine Kombination aus spontanen, sogenannten "field recordings" (den Aufnahmen in der freien Natur) und elektronisch manipulierten Sounds aus dem Studio, geben gleichsam bewegte Kompositionen wie Klanglandschaften wieder. Dabei stammen die Natursounds aus dem japanischen Kakadu National Park und reichen von Buschfeuern bis hin zu den Klängen der Insekten. [Cargo press release]

"The veteran Japanese noisician (and guitarist of heavy prog act Zeni Geva) K.K. Null is back with his first solo album on the Touch label, and it's one of KK's best solo efforts we've heard to date. Perhaps inspired by labelmate Chris Watson (with whom he collaborated a few years ago, in conjunction with Z'ev), K.K. has
brought some field recordings (birds, bugs, frogs, fire...) he made on a trip to a national park in Northern Australia to this project,
mixing those with his own studio-conjured electronic sounds. No wonder, then, that Fertile is a spooky soundscape of nocturnal hiss and buzz, parts of it sounding like video games played by insects, others ominous with ghostlike voices buried beneath... chattering rhythmic components underlie what sound like shortwave freakouts, tracks often building to stactic-y explosiveness, droning and noisy, extremely dynamic and distorted. You could almost imagine that this is what a hybrid of a John Carpenter soundtrack and a Japanese noise record would sound like. Null calls it "cosmic noise maximal/ minimalism." We don't know what to call it, exactly, but we like it" [Aquarius Records]