Hurtbreak Wonderland

by World's End Girlfriend

Hurtbreak Wonderland cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 March 2007
  • Label: Human Highway
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:17:55
  • Community rating: 4.11/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Katsuhiko Maeda creates a cinematic, glitch-filled symphony on this ambitious album. 'Hurtbreak Wonderland' combines lush orchestral arrangements with chaotic breakcore beats and distorted electronics. It is a beautiful, overwhelming collage of sound.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, orchestral, atmospheric, maximalist, strings, experimental, electronic, chamber

Tracklist

  1. Wandering 流浪 (1:49)
  2. Birthday Resistance 誕生日抵抗日 (5:23)
  3. 100 Years Of Choke 百年の窒息 (13:22)
  4. Grass Ark 草の方舟 (10:14)
  5. Ghost Of A Horse Under The Chandelier シャンデリアの下の馬の幽霊 (7:56)
  6. The Octuple Personality And Eleven Crows 8重人格と11羽のカラス (10:32)
  7. Breath Or Castle Ballad コルチャックと亡命 (3:15)
  8. Bless Yourself Bleed エレウシスの出血 (10:32)
  9. Dance For Borderline Miscanthus 境界線上のススキ (4:39)
  10. River Was Filled With Stories 水の線路 (10:13)

Credits

  • Etsuko Fukaya - artwork by
  • Tamaki Kunishi - bass [electric]
  • Seigen Tokuzawa - cello
  • Yoji Maeda - contrabassoon
  • Kazuhisa Chikada - drums
  • Tomohiko Gondo - euphonium
  • Corczak - guitar
  • Joel Knoxxx - guitar
  • Yuka Yoshino - harp [irish]
  • Kentaro Kimura - mastered by
  • Nosebleed Spiral - noises
  • 48 Tigers' Corpse - organ
  • Kitchen Crusader - percussion
  • TJ Yoshimo - percussion
  • Kazumasa Hashimoto - piano
  • Dr. Nishihira - recorded by
  • Tetsuya Yamamoto - recorded by
  • World's End Girlfriend - recorded by
  • Takafumi Ishikawa - saxophone [soprano]
  • Kenichi Matsumoto - saxophone [tenor], saxophone [alto], flute
  • Necro Darger - synthesizer
  • Morran The Groke - vibraphone
  • Mio Okamura - violin
  • Guignol's Band - voice
  • Klara Ghost - voice

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