TR149 - Lao Dan - 'Solo 2'

Tape available for order via message or via Bandcamp:
https://travailrythmique.bandcamp.com/album/ppaulus-fr-re-en-schliffes
Recorded at la Drèche
Dubbed and mixed at Bastion XIV
Printed at Papier Gâchette on silver paper.

Ouais Lolo

Nostalgia

'A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth' is available at https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-a-string-of-paper-cranes-clenched-between-my-teeth-lp/, and as part of the Kazuki Tomokawa CD box set at
https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-kazuki-tomokawa-1975-1977/.

In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps “ever more inward,” as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record’s original introductory text—embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an “attitude of total self-containment.”

Tomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month—from August 24 to September 25, 1977—at Tokyo’s famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up: paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa’s “screaming philosopher” vocals find their match with the orchestra’s electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police’s Toshi Ishizuka—who appears on Tomokawa’s first three records and remains his collaborator to this day.

“This is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh,” concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa’s uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. “You call that life?” he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, “try saying you’re alive!”

Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950) is a prolific singer-songwriter from Hachiryu Village (now the town of Mitane) in the Akita Prefecture area of northern Japan. Since his first release in 1975, he has recorded more than thirty albums. The 2010 documentary about his life, La Faute des Fleurs, won the Sound & Vision award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and that same year saw the Japanese release of the book Dreams Die Vigorously Day by Day, a collection of his lyrics spanning forty years. His most recent albums are Vengeance Bourbon (2014) and Gleaming Crayon (2016), both on the Modest Launch label.

Kazuki Tomokawa - The Donpan Song Goes off the Rails

written & produced by pharfetchd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa82agxfCI4

more or less EP
02/12/2021

Mastered by @floorbaba

more or less EP

lore or mess

Weather

ESSEL

B4 - La nuit j'occis

half hour to prevent tragedy

John Zorn - Kristallnacht - Shtetl (Ghetto Life)

excerpt of 52 min. recording of the last in the series Prisma Interius on New World Records:
web page: http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=95221

for: Ensemble Dedalus

Didier Aschour (electric guitar)
Amélie Berson (romantic flute)
Cyprien Busolini (viola)
Yannick Guédon (voice, treble gamba)
Thierry Madiot (bass trombone)
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé (secondary rainbow synthesizer)
Christian Pruvost (trumpet)
Silvia Tarozzi (violin)
Deborah Walker (cello/voice)

recorded and mixed by Benjamin Maumus at Centre Pompidou, Metz, France, July 2018

mastered by Paul Zinman

image by Uta Neumann

Prisma Interius IX (2018) excerpt

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Kazuki Tomokawa - The Donpan Song Goes off the Rails

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