From Sean Cooper Sent Sat, May 15th 1999, 22:16
>Listening to 'Ticklish Matters' for the billionth time, I am again amazed >by how far afield Naohiro Fujikawa's releases are from the general realms >of experimental music. So I wanted to ask - is there anyone else out there >who is releasing similarly-minded material? The kind of shattered-sound >reconstructions and off-balance rhythms of the last couple albums make it >seem like Bisk is looking at music from a completely different angle than >the rest. i've proselytized bisk on the atom heart list so many times i feel duty-bound to return the favor here. only certain atom heart releases apply, though. seek out the following: +N, Built (Rather Interesting) Atom Heart, Schnittstelle (Rather Interesting) HAT, HAT (Rather Interesting) atom heart is less sample-heavy than bisk -- and the connection is heard best probably in the context of bisk's _time_ and _strange or funny haha?_ -- but there is a similar rhythmic approach at work, and a similar musical/conceptual-collage aesthetic. i would also recommend elfish echo's _sato yumiko_ (km20), which compares for similar reasons. again, not as much sample corruption going on, but there's resonance in "feel." if you end up liking that, elfish echo's previous record, _multiple void enjoyment_, might suit you as well, but i'd start with _sato yumiko_ and move backward from there. i'm also struck by the ymo/hosono/sakamoto influence in bisk (he's from japan, so that makes sense). i didn't really hear it until i'd tracked down sakamoto's _b-2 unit_, but it's there. mind, that record doesn't sound much like bisk, either, but there's parallelism in sensibility -- the overall bizarreness of the combinations and deviations. >Secondly, are there any interviews/articles/webpages out there? I can't >seem to find any information about him other than what is on the liner notes. i wrote a bisk bio for the all-music guide a few months back: http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=4:57:40|PM&p=amg&sql=B194578 peace, sc onnow: nick philip mix cd-r (FSOL remix of Curve!)