Slope - Gradual Disappearance

by Tenko

Slope - Gradual Disappearance cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: RecRec Music
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 39:52
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The avant-garde Japanese vocalist delivers an unsettling collection of ritualistic improvisations and complex, dissonant art rock. 'Slope - Gradual Disappearance' leverages fractured post-punk rhythms to support her dynamic, acrobatic vocal techniques. The release highlights her profound connection to the global experimental rock underground.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, ritualistic, uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation, avant-garde, mythology, experimental, electronic, dreamy, minimal, vocal, bizarre

Tracklist

  1. Passing By The Night (4:18)
  2. Somewhere, Far Away (3:37)
  3. Guitars I (1:34)
  4. I've Eaten Nuts With Different Shapes (2:12)
  5. In The Strawberry Preserves (3:38)
  6. Sleep Walker (3:15)
  7. ANTAGATA-DOKO-SA (1:43)
  8. In Horto Infinito (In The Infinite Garden) (2:36)
  9. The Time Drawers (2:50)
  10. Gradual Disappearance (2:27)
  11. Nightrope Dancing (2:30)
  12. Guitars II (2:49)
  13. Opinion (3:03)
  14. A Watchdog Of The Labyrinth (3:20)

Credits

  • Zeena Parkins - electric harp, accordion, vocals
  • Ned Rothenberg - flute, alto saxophone
  • David Licht - snare
  • Wayne Horvitz - piano, synthesizer [dx7, dx100]
  • Arto Lindsay - guitar, vocals
  • Christian Marclay - turntables
  • David Moss - vocals
  • Kamura - vocals

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