Musics from other worlds (subtitle: 'listen to an idiot)
Itoh Masyitoh and Group Rineka Swara - Cipanon Ngembeng
"...and so you stay among yourselves listening to Peruvian groups with the bagpipes that only 4 cats listen to and that not even their relatives buy!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, the pompous know-it-all, frequenter of the most putrid and hidden niches, who "will never be part of a majority" as that guy said in that movie... I propose that you listen to some of the most unimaginable stuff that has crossed my hands and ears over the years. You, trust an idiot, lose 5 minutes listening (reading, watching, eating, smelling...) to the same things that you already know how they are, that you don’t risk, it simply happens that your brain atrophies.
5) Itoh Masyitoh and Group Rineka Swara
Here we are really elsewhere! The long and absurd journey that brought this cassette into my hands would take too long to tell; just as complicated was the way I lost that cassette (although, in the end, in one way or another, it all comes back around to the same thing...).
But what is truly absurd is that I found traces of this stuff online and around, much more than I could ever have suspected! But trust me, once you get past the first moment of understandable strangeness, this music has a completely unsuspected ability to crawl under your skin: evocative, narcoleptic, subtly alienating, profoundly mysterious, it is the closest thing to the concept of "trance" in music that I can think of. I am convinced that if some producer with a keen ear were to release this stuff on digital format with some light and intelligent "touch-ups," placed in the right spots, this could really hit the mark...