ReviewsRide a White Rabbit CD albumYumi Hara Cawkwell & Sato Yukie (Tokyo: KOOTOWN Records) |
United MutationsUnited Mutations http://united-mutations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/yumi-hara-cawkwell-sato-yukie-ride.html Tuesday, April 19, 2011 I received this nice a little while ago. Even
before the earthquake / tsunami / nuclear disaster in Japan.
SONIC CURIOSITYhttp://www.soniccuriosity.com/sc482.htm by Matt Howarth The Many Sides of Yumi Hara Cawkwell
This release from 2010 offers 58 minutes of avant garde music. Cawkwell plays vocals and keyboards. Yukie (who is credited as the founding father of the Korean improvised music scene) plays guitar. Extensive vocals are supported by moody organ and guitar effects. With the exception of the title track, the lyrical content of these songs is in Japanese and adhere to classical Eastern stylings in which a single syllable can progress through a variety of notes of the scale. The guitar exhibits a quirky presence, often providing vehement chaos that borders on melody but strives never to cross that line, remaining a churning aspect. But then (in track 4) Yukie switches to melodic performance with chords that glitter with electric gentility. And for the last song (an 18 minute epic) the guitar generates shimmering ambience punctuated by occasions of bent-stringed outbursts culminating in a passage of abstract intensity. The keyboards lend a melodic layer to the churning agitation. These compositions celebrate the year of the Rabbit with eccentric expressions of avant gardism. The vocals dominate a backdrop of minimal instrumentation which in themselves pursue abstract structures.
ALL about Chamber Rock & Avant-garde Musicby 浅野淳 disk review in オー ル・アバウ
ト・チェンバー・ロック&アヴァンギャルド・ ミュージック
Rock in Oppositionとその周辺、p.239
マー
キー/星雲社
'Ride a White Rabbit' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2dR_NgVTT8
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