Jo Ha Ky奴

by Gaspar Claus

Jo Ha Ky奴 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 22 February 2013
  • Label: Modest
  • Country: France
  • Length: 36:46
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collaborating with renowned figures of the Japanese avant-garde scene like Keiji Haino and Ryuichi Sakamoto, the French cellist orchestrated this incredibly challenging, improvisational album in Tokyo. The record entirely strips away traditional melody, prioritizing visceral, scraping acoustic dissonance and intense periods of terrifying sonic reductionism.

Genres

Descriptors: Improvisation, improvisation, dissonant, avant-garde, atmospheric, piercing, experimental, minimal, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Machine Messiah (10:27)
  2. White Car (1:21)
  3. Does It Really Happen? (6:34)
  4. Into The Lens (8:31)
  5. Run Through The Light (4:39)
  6. Tempus Fugit (5:14)

Credits

  • Roger Dean - artwork [cover painting]
  • Chris Squire - bass, vocals, written-by, piano
  • Steve Howe - guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Geoff Downes - keyboards, vocoder, written-by
  • Frank Tabino - lacquer cut by [sterling sound]
  • Sean Davies - lacquer cut by [strawberry]
  • Alan White - percussion, vocals, written-by
  • George Chambers - tape op

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