(idm) Re: Bisk

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

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