Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition mangelsdorff

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Recorded by Yonju Miyaoka

RCA Victrola

as almost everything that follows seems evocative of some sort of remote nocturnal grove

Chatham played the Long String Drone -- a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings

Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition mangelsdorff"Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985. To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Japanoise was both made