Arashi

by Yosuke Yamashita, Dairakudakan & Gerald Oshita

Arashi cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Frasco
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:13:07
  • Community rating: 4.18/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An explosive meeting of extreme sonic improvisation and avant-garde theater, 'Arashi' documents a radical 1976 collaboration between Yosuke Yamashita's free jazz trio and the notorious Butoh dance troupe Dairakudakan. Driven by Yamashita's famously destructive, elbow-smashing piano technique, the performance devolves into a terrifyingly energetic and chaotic spectacle. The recording remains a vital artifact of Japan's boundary-pushing 1970s experimental underground.

Genres

Descriptors: Soundtrack, avant-garde, improvisation, noisy, dissonant, complex

Tracklist

  1. 月の砂漠 = Moonlight Desert (12:02)
  2. 屍花 = Flower Corpse (6:06)
  3. ゴングと人声によるプレリュード = Prelude By Gong And Human Voices (3:29)
  4. ゴースト パートⅠ = Ghosts Part I (2:16)
  5. ゴースト パートⅡ = Ghosts Part II (4:21)
  6. 黄金の葉脈 = Golden Veins Of A Leaf (4:06)
  7. 虚無軍団、足音によるインタルード = Nihility Mobs (2:00)
  8. 時代は森の木もれ陽 = An Age Is A Sunlight Coming Through The Foliage Of The Woods (10:22)
  9. 嵐のテーマ = Theme For Arashi (2:59)
  10. 毛棒と小人 パートⅠ = A Hairstic And A Lilliputian Part I (0:53)
  11. 毛棒と小人 パートⅡ = A Hairstic And A Lilliputian Part II (0:18)
  12. 扇子と人形 = A Fan And A Doll (0:49)
  13. 未来戦争、舞踏家による物音とパーカッション = The Future War (0:46)
  14. 森の小陰の森 = Forest In Forest Shade (1:02)
  15. 嵐のテーマ = Theme For Arashi (18:43)
  16. 月の砂漠 = Moonlight Desert (2:55)

Credits

  • Yosuke Yamashita Trio - primary artist
  • Gerald Oshita - primary artist, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, percussion, written-by
  • Akira Sakata - alto saxophone, clarinet, percussion, voice
  • Toyoichirō Miyoshi - calligraphy
  • Yasutaka Kitazawa - directed by
  • Shota Koyama - drums, percussion
  • Yoshiro Abe - lighting
  • Jin Nakahara - promotion [promotional director]

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