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lundi 8 mars 2010

The Gerogerigegege - Endless Humiliation (Japan Overseas, 1994)



1 Endless Humiliation 59:59

One of the most eerie and haunting pieces of music juntaro ever bothered recording. this is probably one of the gerogerigegege's most unique albums available to music consumers and its even easier to get into than a merzbow cd. as the given description from the liner notes has already mentioned, the entire cd is pretty much just a field recording of a drunk homeless japanese man rambling over the sounds of an incredibly distant piano. probably the quietest work done by the group, its often thought to have been either a long winded work of social commentary or a piece of music that juntaro created for or about his mother, who was supposedly a rather famous japanese classical pianist. the cd has wonderful cover art consisting of 2 paragraphs written in japanese next to a black and white photograph taken by juntaro of 2 little kids wearing rabbit masks in some village. the back has a picture of a horse. the cd is very relaxing and equally unnerving at the same time. fairly decent production, but nothing to write home about. closest thing to 'uneasy' listening you can get.

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dimanche 7 mars 2010

The Gerogerigegege - None Friendly (Mink Records, 1999)



1 Untitled 58:36

Album number 132 (or something close to that) from Japanese noise musician / sound artist Juntaro Yamanouchi. Gerogerigegege (loosely translated as simultaneous vomit-diarhhea, then the supposed sound of such a catastrophic gastrointestinal event) has gone through all sorts of sonic incarnations, noisy splatter punk, bombastic japanoise, experimental musique concrete, with some of those incarnations featuring the added bonus of mic-ed masturbating, courtesy of a geriatric 'public' masturbator befriended by Juntaro. On 'None Friendly' (actually recorded in 1987), he tackles THE DRONE and it's quite a listen. Deep and sonorous, lush and mesmerising. I was convinced it was a synthesizer until I noticed on the sleeve, that it specifically points out that there was 'No synthesizer used.' So what the sound source actually is remains a mystery although a source close to the man thinks it just may be a guitar tuner (?). But maybe it -is- processed masturbating. I mean, I hope it is. But either way, this is a fantastic record. One extended buzzing and humming, slowly developing hypnotic drone. Really great.
Aquarius Records

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