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Artist:	HACO
Title:	Stereo Bugscope 00
Label:	IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	IMJ 523

"Starting with her work in After Dinner in the '80s, up to her current activity as a soloist and in projects like the female trio Hoahio, and Yesterday's Heroes, with Terre Thaemlitz, Haco has long been the reigning songstress of avant-garde music. But she isn't only a highly acclaimed vocalist and composer/lyricist; in recent years she's been exploring areas unrelated to vocalizing or pop melodies, with projects that focus on the sounds that surround us in our daily lives. One of these is View Masters ('the sound collection and observation organization'), which produces a large-scale annual event; another is Stereo Bugscope, which is documented on this album. The name 'Stereo Bugscope' refers to a performance system that detects oscillating sounds emitted by the circuitry of electronic devices. It also signifies the act of listening to the electromagnetic world that emerges from the inside of devices such as computers, cell phones, MD players, and wireless routers through the use of two inductive microphones (pickups). The oscillating-circuit sounds come from the IC board and clock, and the electromagnetic noise comes from the electrical current that turns the fan and drives the motor. These signals are ordinarily so faint as to be inaudible. The sound is then electronically amplified, which makes it at first seem very extreme, but at the same time amazingly beautiful."

Artist:	HACO
Title:
Label:	RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RER HACO1

Debut solo album by the singer of the legendary After Dinner band from Japan. "Haco has used pre-recorded tapes to form a band that includes cello player Tom Cora and percussionists Samm Bennett and Peter Hollinger, plus studio work from bass player Nobuhisa Shimoda, bansuri (Indian transverse flute) player Hiroshi Nakagawa and guitarist Tsuneo Imahori. The major force, however, is Haco's glorious vocal which new ears could be mistaking for that of Kate Bush with just a dash of Dagmar Krause and Icelandic dancehall siren Bjork thrown in for good measure. Haco refuses to abandon her own culture in total favor of western ideals, though, and the album is interwoven with traditional Japanese instrumentation and language."

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