(Catalogue no. 16190)
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| Title: |
Live |
| Artist: |
Yximalloo |
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Label: |
Sakura Wrechords |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 17.00 |
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Title Description:
Recorded in 1982 and unaccountably never before released, these melting-hot (and warble-o-phonic) live tapes of Naofumi Ishimaru's prolific band present a different account of them than we've heard before, or rather several different accounts. The first few tracks, with Hiroshi Kiyono playing bass, are Yximalloo as polyrhythmic funk experimentalists-imagine an instrumental mix of Talking Heads' Remain In Right as heard by a drowning man. The instrumentation includes on-the-one chicken-scratch guitar, "Prevue Guide" synths, and any number of little percussive devices. Then the lineup changes drastically and things get really weird: a few tracks are less about the notes being played than the textures of blown-out amps and way-overmodulated microphones, and the album ends with O'Rhythm #14, a peppery 17-minute percussion extravaganza. The other tracks mostly explore and mutate a specific groove, though they're anywhere from 20 seconds to 10 minutes long: some echo the piece immediately before them, some switch recording textures part-way through or segue into the next piece mid-groove. Naofumi can be heard yelping excitedly throughout, though he's far in the background, buried by the floor-shaking rhythms, like Damo Suzuki on Can's Halleluwah- an obvious influence, particulaly on Sai.-CMJ #491-
Where Yximalloo get funky! Twelve longer tracks performed by a band that gathers up to eight players. Flailing rhythms, horrible recording sound (fuzzed out), with a splendid flippant funkiness that slops all over. Some disco rhythms, yowling. This is the one that should be put on vinyl for DJs for that "what the hell" effect. Nonetheless slapdash, with the jumpy bass the only glue for part of it. "Live" totally falls apart near the end, with an endless crashy percussion track seemingly performed just on garbage cans. Recorded in 1982.-Other Music RE-
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