L'Innomable new release: OFF-CELLS: 60/40 !!!

[lukaz]

coming very very very very ...



OFF-CELLS: 60/40
(L'Innomable, 2010) cd-r

Off- Cells are:

Seijiro Murayama: percussion
Taku Unami: guitar
Utah Kawasaki: analog synthesizer
Takahiro Kawaguchi: objects

Recorded live @ Loopline, Tokyo, 10. September 2008 + 18. January 2009
Design by Jani Peternelj
Drawing by Tetsuro Honma

Edition of 250 copies

[mudd]

oh nice!

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[Jesse]

looking forward!

[Dan Warburton]

That sounds like a great lineup -- looking forward to hearing it very much.

[lukaz]

now available at Sound 323: http://www.sound323.com

and at Metamkine: http://www.metamkine.com

[Dan Warburton]

Just enjoying this now for the first time - thanks Luka.

[lukaz]

first words by Richard Pinnell on The Watchful Ear:

http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=4065

[lukaz]

Frans de Waard in Vital Weekly:

OFF-CELLS - 60/40 (CDR by L'Innnomable)
Two concerts are captured here by four Japanese musicians: Takahiro Kawaguchi (objects), Utah Kawasaki (analog synthesizer), Taku Unami (guitar) and Seijiro Murayama (percussion). They play improvised music, Japanese style - and I suddenly realize I haven't heard from various of those players from the scene for quite some time. Silence is the keyword for players here, but not as exclusively as with some of their fellow country men. I must admit I am not blown away by this disc. For one, its really long, clocking at some seventy minutes, which is quite a lot to keep ones attention going for all that tape. Also it seems to be lacking real tension, and most of the times comes across as four people playing occasional sounds, and not playing/improvising together. It sounds more like four people playing whatever they want to play, without taking notice of the other players. Thats a pity. Some editing, say all five pieces into one thirty minute piece could have probably saved the disc, which now seems lost in large ocean of care-free improvisation. (FdW)

http://www.vitalweekly.net

[lukaz]

now available at Ftarri (along w the rest of latest releases): http://www.ftarri.com/cdshop/index.html

[jon abbey]

my copies just arrived also, whoo hoo!

anything to Richard's guesses about the track lengths, Luka?

[Dan Warburton]

If he knew, would he tell? You probably know more about the Krebs / Unami disc's inner workings than you've cared to reveal
-- only listened to this one once so far, while doing something else at the same time, but I suspect there's more to it than meets the eye (ear), for sure.

[lukaz]

brief words by Guillaume Belhomme from Le Son Du Grisli:

'Sur 60/40, entendre une autre histoire de découpage de silences et même de temps contée par Seijiro Murayama au sein d’Off-Cells – à ses côtés : Taku Unami (guitare), Utah Kawasako (synthétiseur analogique) et Takahiro Kawaguchi (objets). L’ennui, ici, se trouve en guitare : à force d’aller chercher son salut dans la ligne pure, Unami donne dans un simplisme irritant qui gangrène l’ensemble des improvisations. D’amusement stérile en pose expérimentale, la guitare partout vous empêche d’écouter le reste.' (gb)

http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/disques/index.html

[jcg]

D’amusement stérile en pose expérimentale, la guitare partout vous empêche d’écouter le reste.' (gb)

This could be roughly translated by "from sterile fun to experimental affectation, the ubiquitous guitar prevents the listener from paying attention to the rest". Brief words indeed, and not very laudatory!

I can't comment on this particular one as I haven't heard it but the batch of L'Innomable discs released earlier this year is quite pleasant to my ears.

[Dan Warburton]

That sounds like a classic "one listen" review to me.

[RFKorp]

And yet there's something bizarrely inspiring about that review at the same time

http://splitstringregex.tumblr.com/post ... e-belhomme

finally listening to Off-Cells now myself!

[lukaz]

here are words by Brian Olewnick at Just Outside:

http://olewnick.blogspot.com

[lukaz]

review by Joshua Meggitt in Cyclic Defrost:

http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2010/ ... innomable/