Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28
by Ground-Zero
- Type: Album
- Released: 1995
- Label: ReR Megacorp
- Country: Japan
- Length: 41:00
- Community rating: 4.1/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Otomo Yoshihide, Uemura Masahiro, Kikuchi Naruyoshi, Yoshigaki Yasuhiro, Nasuno Mitsuru
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On '闈╁懡浜妵 (Revolutionary Pekinese Opera) Ver.1.28', Otomo Yoshihide's ensemble Ground-Zero creates a dense and chaotic sound collage built from samples of 1960s Chinese revolutionary operas, which had themselves been sampled in a prior work by Heiner Goebbels and Alfred 23 Harth. The album violently merges radical turntablism and plunderphonics with the frenetic energy of free improvisation, featuring a wild mix of noise guitar, saxophone, traditional Japanese instruments, and frenetic drumming. This cacophonous yet meticulously constructed work stands as a landmark of 1990s Japanese experimental music, critically re-examining cultural propaganda through a dizzying storm of sound.
Genres
Descriptors: noisy, political, conceptual, experimental, improvisation, electronic, dissonant
Tracklist
- 6 Seconds 4 Frames (0:06)
- Opening ~ Japanese Economy (9:27)
- Consume Mao (1:32)
- Thema Mao 1 (2:05)
- Red Mao Book (4:23)
- Frankfurt Mao (2:01)
- Maologue (4:52)
- Blue Mao (7:03)
- Ronald Mao (0:39)
- Enka Mao (1:14)
- Pink Mao (1:27)
- Maology (1:28)
- Thema Mao 2 (0:51)
- Slogan (0:52)
- Grand Finale (1:11)
- International (1:43)
- 6 Seconds 4 Frames (0:06)
Credits
- Otomo Yoshihide - turntables, guitar, music by, producer, remix, remastered by
- Nasuno Mitsuru - bass
- Uemura Masahiro - drums
- Yoshigaki Yasuhiro - drums, percussion
- Uchihashi Kazuhisa - guitar, effects
- Kikuchi Naruyoshi - tenor saxophone
- Sasaki Hideaki - art direction, photography by
- Oishi Chikaco - artwork [artwork execution]
- Kobayashi Yumi - engineer [assistant]
- Morishita Masaki - executive-producer
- Original Pekinese Opera Groups - featuring [sampled guest]
- Allan Tucker - mastered by
- Heiner Goebbels - piano [sampled guest]
- Ito Haruna - producer [post-produced by]
- Kondo Yoshiaki - recorded by, mixed by, remix, remastered by
- Alfred 23 Harth - saxophone [sampled guest]
- James Plotkin - remastered by