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Rating: Noise project, whose main member is Masaya Nakahara, "famous" for the rumors that some of its members have died. The project, no longer active as far as I know, has created truly bizarre works with particularly successful moments of musical madness, in fact, the proposal was not limited to pure noise but opened up to contaminations with other genres offering a unique sonic kaleidoscope. One might think of it as a copy of Boredoms, even the graphics would suggest such an analogy, but in reality, the noise moments are much more pronounced as well as the musical ones, leaving the listener more bewildered.
The work proposed here, which uses members of/from Melt Banana, is no exception, even though it pushes into decidedly more musical territories using only noise textures sporadically. It starts with an introduction complete with scratches and screams ("Introduction") to immediately shift to a decidedly noise track with metallic noises that suddenly ends to switch to a Hawaiian-style tune with singing that sounds like a drunkard, and all this in the span of 3 minutes! We move on to "Surf Despair 65" which is a recording of the sound of the sea with other noises. Then we have "Milkcow Blues" a brutalized cover both in voice, screamed and distorted, and in the music, followed by a track like "Deadcow Soul" that features hip hop beats and cow moos. Tracks like "Good Morning Mrs Leech" and "The Coconuts Farm" intersperse noises of various kinds with musical moments complete with trumpets and synth sounds, while with "Whitehair Big Explosion" you witness a parody of a rock piece that seems to have come out of the 50s. The sense of parody also persists in "Que Sera, Sera", which begins as a blues that interrupts to offer us a fragment of the soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssey with monkey screams, and "Ilsa On Highway" in which it seems like you're witnessing a session of an Alcoholics Anonymous group trying to create melancholic atmospheres.
Fun and catchy even if it's unclear where it wants to go, an involuntary parody of noise and music?
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