Chinese influenced music covering traditional and modern themes.

Chinese themes / 中国主题

If you're looking for a folky pastoral vibe, this is for you.

Remastered using SC's mastering feature.

Published on SC [DATE]

My love will put you in hospital

40 Degrees Delicate (remaster)

The title is from the novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(novel))

Walter Tevis is a great writer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis)

Pic - based on Icarus by Henri Matisse (https://www.matissepaintings.org/icarus/)

Published on 7 January 2022

Anthean

1972: Icarus Descending

Work in progress

Carry him home

Hand tailored silk suit

Homage to Pink Floyd & Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, Cheshire, North West England.

Original track - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM

Lovell Telescope commentary adapted from - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell_Telescope

Pic: Lovell Telescope, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, England (https://www.jodrellbank.net/visit/whats-here/lovell-telescope/) by Geoff Descartes.

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 10 April 2022

Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd cover)

Effendi Red is a character in the BBC Radio 4 drama Tumanbay 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumanbay_(radio_drama)


Off-beat jazz vibe for off-beat jazz moments.

Published on SC 8 November 2023

Effendi Red

Plush

An adaptation of Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine with a Philip Glass feel.

Published on SC 1 July 2024

Oberon, Miranda & Titania (Pink Floyd cover)

The Anubis Gates is a 1983 novel by Tim Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anubis_Gates

Published on SC 7 Aug 2024.

Anubis Gates

Surf pop stomper. 

Pic: Venice Beach, Los Angeles, 1992 by Geoff Descartes

Surfdom

Cover of Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer.

One of the most original bands of the late 1970s.

Original https://youtu.be/eauZzwt8Ci8

About Talking Heads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 3 March 2023

Situationism

Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)

About the title - the title is taken from the William Blake poem "Ah! Sunflower" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43649/ah-sun-flower

This is also the title of a novel by Walter Tevis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steps_of_the_Sun

Steps of the sun

Terracotta Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army
Exhibition in Liverpool, UK, 2018 https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/world-museum/exhibition/chinas-first-emperor-and-terracotta-warriors

Terracotta warrior

The title refers to characters in Chinese mythology.

https://chinese.mythologyworldwide.com/the-tale-of-the-jade-rabbit-myths-of-the-moon-goddess/

International Freaking Out Day

The Moon Goddess & Her Jade Rabbit

A taikonaut is the Chinese equivalent of an astronaut or cosmonaut.

About the pic - images from Chinese state propaganda posters depicting space-related technology and mythological themes.

Taikonauts

Mastered using SC's mastering feature.

Published on SC 9 August 2023

Warm (remaster)

About the title (from Wikipedia)

The Spring and Autumn period (c. 770 – c. 481 BCE[1][a]) was a period in Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou (c. 771 – 256 BCE), characterized by the gradual erosion of royal power as local lords nominally subject to the Zhou exercised increasing political autonomy. The period's name[b] derives from the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the state of Lu between 722 and 481 BCE, which tradition associates with Confucius (551–479 BCE).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_and_Autumn_period

Spring & Autumn (Ambition, Peace, Power, Prosperity, War)

Caterpillar

Synthesised male vocal. Lyrics created using a cut-up method. Hard edged late 1970s new wave dance beat with distorted guitar and synths. Massive handclaps in the style of classic Chic.

Astronauts Kiss

This is part of an impressionistic interpretation of the 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick. (Track 8 of 23,  published on SC 25 November 2019)

Music: Yankel Muromachi ¦ Words: Philip K. Dick

Information about the novel & full listing can be found on the playlist https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said

I hope you enjoy.

E.

Remastered using SC's mastering feature.

Published on SC 20 October 2023

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Police Fink (remaster)

Classic 1970’s prog rock. Warning: may cause patchouli-related olfactory hallucinations.

Silent Starlight

Memory of an abandoned aquarium (remaster)

Late 1970s UK new wave / post-punk thumper with slicing guitars in the vein of Gang of Four and The Pop Group.

About these bands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pop_Group


About the title - "Sirenbang" is Chinese for Gang of Four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four

Sirenbang

Why cover this song? 

From David Bowie's 1974 album Diamond Dogs, one of my favourite Bowie albums. Diamond Dogs divided critical opinion at the time of its release but has been favourably re-evaluated in recent years.

I realised recently that Diamond Dogs is actually a gateway to William Burroughs, covering themes found in Burroughs' work and George Orwell's 1984. We are the Dead (title from 1984) sung by Bowie with an alternating tenderness and dread is, for me, amongst his greatest vocal performances.

Original - https://youtu.be/4QEs1sjlLYA?si=IH0_dFyq9RYJ9fHG

Another cover of this song on Soundcloud - Enrique Seknadje https://on.soundcloud.com/PnoRj79t8fHGn5wyi0

We are the dead (David Bowie cover)

This is part of an impressionistic interpretation of the 1975 novel by Philip K. Dick. (Track 10 of 23, published 11 December 2019.

Music: Yankel Muromachi ¦ Words: Philip K. Dick

Information about the novel & full listing can be found on the playlist https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/flow-my-tears-the-policeman-said

I hope you enjoy.

E.

Random Checkpoint (remaster)

Adventine B

Shock & panic (remaster)

Hey you! You in the basque!!

Written by Richard O'Brien

More cover versions https://soundcloud.com/yankel-muromachi/sets/duck-cover-versions

Published on SC 16 August 2020

Yankel Muromachi

Time Warp (Rocky Horror Show cover)

Published on SC 17 July 2020

Some days, don't you wish you could reboot yourself?

I reboot therefore I am. 
I am therefore I reboot.
I reboot therefore I reboot.
I am therefore I am.

I think that just about covers everything.

I, Reboot

Pic: When I first heard the Sex Pistols I set my music system on fire.

Published on SC [DATE]

In the comfort of your own mind

Resilience

Ambience chaser

Welcome to the load-bearing wall of sound.

Music: No boundaries / Knows no boundaries. I don’t look anything like my profile photograph; I'm actually slightly shorter and a figment of my own delusions.

I’m also known as the wild man of transcendental meditation.

Yankel Muromachi

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