Browse by Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO

Artist:	HASEGAWA-SHIZUO
Title:	Gene Packs
Label:	PSF (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSF 163CD

"Debut album by a new improvisation group consisting of Hirotomo Hasegawa and Shizuo Uchida. Both have a leather-bound folder full of underground back-story -- Hasegawa was the lead singer of seminal early eighties Japanese punk/hardcore group Aburadako (Greasy Octopus), while Uchida was a long-term member of Haino's Nijiumu medieval dream-drone unit. The group's instrumentation is highly unorthodox, placing Uchida's mysterious bass textures against the wet skirl of Hasegawa's hichiriki, an ancient double-reed wind instrument whose haunting upper register tones are an unmistakable feature of gagaku court music. Hasegawa brings a bucketful of phlegm to his approach to the instrument, out-honking Zorn's duckcall work by a marshy mile. Uchida also contributes some striking ichigen (single-string) koto. Deliriously psychedelic, fully immersive drone and oriental wind works in the grand tradition of Taj Mahal Travellers, Nijiumu, Marginal Consort and too few others." -- Alan Cummings.

Artist:	HASEGAWA-SHIZUO
Title:	Lift
Label:	UTECH RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	UR 029CD

"It was on a night when sleep simply would not come, no matter how long I sprawled on the grass or how many pages of my book I leafed through. The black shaggy 'thing' expelled all the breath in its body. Phu phu phuu. And as it did so, something glowed softly at the crown of its head. 'Ahh, what a beautiful light! I should put a hat over it to stop it flying away.' The black shaggy thing took his favourite hat, the one he had hung from a tree branch, and popped it onto his head. 'Perfect.' Hirotomo Hasegawa and Shizuo Uchida. Hasegawa was the lead singer of seminal early eighties Japanese punk/hardcore group Aburadako (Greasy Octopus), while Uchida was a long-term member of Haino's Nijiumu medieval dream-drone unit. The recording is the result of unedited improvisation. A beatific recording filled with light and avidity. Edition of 500."

Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page