b/art's Playlist for Maandag 11 Oktober 1999 (17.30-19.00)
no. 33: Ryuichi Sakamoto #2 / Gawk
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RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Part #2
Wreck This Mess Story Test Mix Extended #w02.t1299m
Fall Ryuichi Sakamoto [1]
Loom Yellow Magic Orchestra [6]
Water Drop (6 times) Ryuichi Sakamoto [1]
+ Tong Poo (The other Remix) Ryuichi Sakamoto vs The Orb [5]
Light in Darkness (...spark / Ambient Reprise) Ryuichi Sakamoto vs 808 State [5]
Happy End Yellow Magic Orchestra [6]
Haiku Radio (exc #2) Ryuichi Sakamoto [3]
Prayer [Edit] Ryuichi Sakamoto [2]
Fohk You / Country Wreck This Mess Jingle #1124a97
Camouflage Yellow Magic Orchestra [6]
A Tribute to NJP Ryuichi Sakamoto [4]
Prayer Remix, Parts A, B, C Ryuichi Sakamoto vs Pan Sonic [2]
+ Water Drop (6 times) Ryuichi Sakamoto [1]
Firecracker Ryuichi Sakamoto vs The Shamen vs Martin Denny [5]
Bathroom (echo) Ryuichi Sakamoto [1]

GAWK / MARC SLOAN www.walrus.com/~offshore
 
Don't Damage My Dog's Dog House Marc Sloan [7]
Not Lame Gawk [8]
Backyard Marc Sloan [9]
Fungal Meteor Gawk [8]
Fear of a Bird's Heat Marc Sloan [7]
Roudness Gawk [8]
Whispers in the Refractions of the Water Gawk [10]
Hot / Sexy / WTM #1124.697
[5] "Love is the Devil" on Asphodel / KAB is Sakamoto's soundtrack to the film directed and written by John Maybury about the life and demented cravings of art-genius Francis Bacon. The film and soundtrack contribute to a woozy approximation of the warped vision of Francis Bacon. Sakamoto captures the demented alcohol-lubricated slide into cruel and dyspeptic genius. The soundtrack definitely alters your physical being - a queasy disembodied alienation which one thought only possible on bad drugs.
[2] "Prayer / Salvation" on Ninja Tune has a number of interesting guests reworking Sakamoto. It includes Ashley Beedle, Andrea Parker, Swinscoe but the 2 out-and-outstanding renovations of Sakamoto are by Pan Sonic and another by Oval = they are incredible because they capture that same kind of insanity within severe minimalist restraint.
[3] "Chance: A Chance Operation - The John Cage Tribute," interesting people who help carry Cage part of the way out of the rarefied zone of Musical Pantheon arteest and they make Cage [almost] entertaining. With Kronos Quartet, Jackson MacLow, Ken Nordine, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Oregon, Dave van Tieghem, Robert Ashley, Frank Zappa, John Cale & others...
[4] "1996 / Ryuichi Sakamoto" on Milan / BMG is a collection of mostly soundtrack excerpts. It has a very classical feel and sometimes heaves over into bathos and schmaltz. Here one can see how a member of the Japanese Kraftwerk becomes the Japanese Nino Rota... Includes main themes from The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, The Sheltering Sky, etc.
[5] Hi-Tech / No Crime on Internal Records is a mixed bag of Yellow Magic Orchestra remakes by a group of dance music big beat proselytizers. Most of this 1992 compilation sounds pretty dated. There are some fun and tongue-in-cheek and some heavenly takes on YMO though most notably LFO dismantling La Femme Chinoise, the Robert Gordon repowered YMO cover version of Archie Bells & the Drells' "Tighten Up" [talk about replicants and copies-of-copies-of copies] also 2 versions of the YMO cover of the Martin Denny piece of hyperactive exotica, "Firecracker" and 2 Orb lowdown deep dub remixes of "Tong Poo".
[6] "BGM / YMO" on Alfa is there 1981 disc which includes some real other worldly pop with some vocals sounding like Space Oddity Bowie. The joy and ambiguity of cross-hatched musics
[7] "While Playing Chess With The Former Artist" by Marc Sloan, Offshore Rec. Also known as Gawk. These are crucial membrane scapes in a war-torn world. Schizoid terrains of peace and agony from the Carbon bassist. In a beautiful field, grab hold of the electrified fence, see the clouds on fire.
[8] "Iron Mushroom" on Wagon Train Records is Gawk [Sloan / Joe Trump / Gregory Kitzis / Alex Smith] at its dark and most metal-bound muscley. For every lilting melody there appears something hard and ready to beat it back down to the ground. Not for the faint eared.
[9] "Gawquar Tetes" on Askance is Marc Sloan and guests improvising and creating ambiences cluttered with free jazz metal. The mindscape is a busy treacherous region.
[10] Tongue on Offshore Gawk as Marc sloan again plus guests including Reed Ghazala, Joe Trump, Elliot Sharp and others. This is a collection of interesting tidbits that flies all over the sonic firmament and bounces around in your cranium like a game of Pong. Collected from the earliest records like "Yeow" and "Oxowl" in 1985 to material from 1997's "Bucolic."

Wreck This Mess 10 years in the air/area = Amsterdam. Paris. NY. thanx Black Sifichi
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