Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition the harmonic foundation drops out

the harmonic foundation drops out from under the piece while two more voices join

the alluring and disconcerting world of The Vestige is entirely its own

Recorded by Yonju Miyaoka

as almost everything that follows seems evocative of some sort of remote nocturnal grove

Chatham played the Long String Drone -- a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings

Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition the harmonic foundation drops out"Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985. To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Japanoise was both made