> That power electronics stuff makes me want to break things...like my stereo
> system.
>
I played 'Space Metalizer' (one of my favorites and usually a guaranteed room-clearer) at work and one my colleagues said something like 'I think his electric razor is broken.'
Best,
Jason
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:03:55 +0200
From: patRice <iqhouse@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: Ganryu island
Ricardo Reis wrote:
> I bought this one after Cobra - 1994 Tokyo Operations. The disc is
> an hommage to a samurai fight that happened in ganryu island (i know, is
> in the liner notes but what the liner notes don't say is...) about two
> samurais. Sasaki Kojiro has killed Miyamoto Musashi father's after being
> defeated by him. So, this is the avenging fight between the two.
> Musashi will win and appear has the best swordsman in japan.
Where did you find this information, Ricardo?
I have read Eiji Yoshikawa's historic novel "Musashi" (about the life of
Musashi), which - as far as I know - is based on all known facts regarding
Musashi. And it never mentions anything about his father... (Or is my memory
playing tricks on me again?)
>
> so, it's an avenging story punctuated by Zorn's on reeds and sato
> Michihiro on shamisen. while i was hoping for a kind of more classica
> traditional japan style music i was utterly (and gladly) disapointed.
> there is a clash of sound here, like in a sword fight, with both players
> clashing and retreating, moments of joint playing alternating with lonely
> and circuling around, like gathering atack space or breeding. some
> voicing is also made, if i do recall it, like one is used to see in a real
> fight. so, through 12 tracks, the fight develops till the final death of
> Kojiro.
Well - if Zorn and Sato intended on the original vinyl release to tell the
story (sword fight) from beginning to end then there is a "mistake" on the CD
anyways: there are bonus tracks that did not appear on the vinyl LP.
Personally, I also wasn't too much into this album after listening to it for
the first few times, a few years ago.
Only recently did I manage to actually sit down, listen to the whole thing
and discover some beauty in it.
> there is also a movie about this japones famous duel...
There is a film in 3 parts on the life of Musashi, yes. Based on Yoshikawa's
novel.
patRice
np: John Coltrane, Transition
nr: sfa
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:51:46 +0200
From: Ari <ari.hoste@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: Merbow
on 11-07-2001 14:51, Perfect Sound Forever at perfect-sound@furious.com
wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 03:46:59 EDT
>> From: Dgasque@aol.com
>>
>> That power electronics stuff makes me want to break things...like my stereo
>> system.
>>
>
> I played 'Space Metalizer' (one of my favorites and usually a guaranteed
> room-clearer) at work and one my colleagues said something like 'I think his
> electric razor is broken.'
my brother in law, who's electrician, told me not to worry: it was no great
feat for him to fix my stereo system. i answered there was nothing wrong
with it, that it was only merzbow. he just couldn't believe and started to
search his books in the hope that he could find a solution for the sofar
unexplained merzbow-problem, thinking it'd to be some kind of a
hightech-virus.
ari
np: ganryu island (for the third time today, and still alive ;-))