From Aaron S Michelson Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 18:26
From Aaron S Michelson Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 18:26
Excerpts from mail: 8-Mar-99 (idm) Coil n others by Sean xxxxxxxxx@xx.xxx > How does "World Receiver" fit into the scheme of releases for Tetsu Inoue? > Stumbled upon this last weekend and was pleasantly surprised . . is this a > deleted item along with "Ambient Otaku" ? Where Ambiant Otaku and Tetsu Inoue's other early recordings for Fax records are purely blissed out electronic records... some of the lushest, most beautiful sounds committed to disc. World Receiver was somewhat of a break-away from his original sound as he spent a good time travelling throughout Asia and Europe recording samples on a portable DAT. According to Inoue... "World Receiver I did in almost one take. It was sort of like a live recording. Collecting the sounds took a long time, and that was the most important thing for me. It took some time to program the sounds. Mixing it however was in just one shot. I did [World Receiver] twice, first time it did not work. The problem with the album is it's hard to control the randomness." I don't really get his latest stuff. I browsed through the Inoue release on Tzadik, and listened to his Caipirinha release once, and just didn't get it. Very arythmic bleeps, pulses and whirrs.... to me this is not music, and it's not abstract ambient.... it's just annoying. > What do people think of the Irresistible Force release "Is it Tomorrow > Already?" (or something like that) . . . not much mention on the list . but > seems like it's been out for a good long time now . . Brilliant fucking record! No shit. While a few tracks tend to push the warm fuzziness envelope of acceptable gooey ambient music, for the most part the programming is superb, the melodies are gorgeous, and the tracks are groovy. Much more upbeat than Morris's earlier work for Rising High. I'm really looking forward to hearing his collaboration with Jonah Sharp... but, well, I'm a bit discouraged to buy Japanese imports... come on, someone send me a promo!! Aaron