Noise

Cascades of electronic noise, a psychedelic touch and vocal belching mixed together constitute the ingredients of Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé, the double-barreled name for Masonna. Maso Yamazaki founded his project in 1987, with a charismatic and glamorous personality who become a cult figure in “Japanoise” scene. Masonna’s abundant productions on his own legendary and astonishing label Coquette were presented in very limited edition, sometime totally confidential (one sole copy), and reflect his predilection for 60’s psychedelic music revisited in its own very peculiar way. He transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static.
Filled with unquestionable feelings along with Freak is an ultra-rare cassette originally released in 1995 by Coquette in an edition of only 36 copies and now return for the first time in a stunning vinyl format fully remastered!
The two sides of the cassette / vinyl are completely different from each other. Side A can be considered a classic Masonna piece, where it reaches its full artistic maturity here. This side is very brash, earsplitting and mad. The distortion and effects on the vocals are top notch, they in combination with his awesome screaming create a complete audio assault. Remind also to his first period as Open your cunt and Like a vagina tapes. Everything is scraped, fast and beautiful and focuses an electrically overcharged universe, punctuating the thrilling and vocal sonorous power with some quite moments and brief interruptions, conferring a very particular dynamic to work. Side B is completely different. The voice disappears (or is no longer heard because it is covered or transformed by feedback). The structure is more compact and organized but eventually becomes far wilder, building up to pointillistic bleeps and dense layers of electronic fizz that unexpectedly cut to near-silence; these bear many uncanny resemblances to the simple melodic improvs and incessant ostinatos of Terry Riley.
At once beautiful and remarkably challenging, Filled with unquestionable feelings, is an absolutely revelation in the wide discography of Masonna and easily one of the early contenders for the best artist release.  It is reissued on black vinyl in a limited edition of 299 copies. Original tape copies are virtually unobtainable, skirting well into the three figure realm, so this one Lp is not to be missed!

Masonna - Part 1 Excerpt (from Filled with unquestionable feelings)

1 حكاية ولد

Further investigation into the futuristic spaces found in Japanese ambient and pop music from the 1980s...

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Blue Noise

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I'm Aare. I've been active in music in the early 90-s. After the 24-25 year silence I decided to came out of the closet and create new sounds. I create sounds what are waiting and demanding the creation.

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Pink Noise

Written in response to a contemporary art exhibition by a local artist in Sheffield.

One particular exhibit drew my attention as it contained a partially-obscured piano score. On closer inspection the music turned out to be a segment from a well-know piano study on step-wise contrary motion.

The piece in question is here: http://www.lizvongraevenitz.co.uk/portfolio-item/the-universe-music-and-me-4

I'm particularly interested in "found art" and partially-revealed source material, so it wasn't long before I had transferred the piano lines to my score paper and began to build a piece around them.

There are two sections. In the first, violins and cellos pluck their way through the contrary motion material from the original piano exercise, whilst a wind trio attempt to perform homophonic statements of the classical V7-I cadence. The wind section are unable to produce meaningful harmonic cadences because a pointillistic convention has been imposed. Undeterred, they travel around the circle of fifths, attempting a cadence at each step. Where parts of the piano score are obscured (by sections of a printed circuit board), a synthesiser plays a "sample and hold" line. This is technology's naive and misguided attempt to decorate the wind cadences with a coloratura line.

In the second section, the wind trio are granted space to conclude their cadential statements and complete their journey around the circle of fifths. The final cadence (E7-A) is celebrated by a flatulent trombone, swanee whistle, and percussion. It's only now that the piano feels it can make its contribution, which it does by proudly announcing a broken major chord. Unfortunately, this confident, vulgar statement is mis-timed and not welcome, so its left to the percussion section to cut it short and introduce the closing section. For the close, the ensemble present a contradiction in terms - a pointillistic tutti, followed by a successful tonic-dominant cadence from the string section.

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1 Boom, Like That

The main theme in the Commodore 64 game Soulless by Trevor Storey and Georg Rottensteiner, in which I wrote the original music.

Trivia: Written over 6 months. Quite a lengthy tune, as I wanted to try avoiding it being too repetitive.

encore - soulless (in-game)

Afr tib islam mix

Full support for the FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE movement!
free download!
production & mix: T-Jah
words: Greta Thunberg
percussions: Horseman (drumdrops)
frequencies lifted by LXC808.com

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