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ARTIST
HASEGAWA-SHIZUO
TITLE
Gene Packs
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
PSF
CATALOG #
PSF 163CD
PSF 163CD
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/17/2005
"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.
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