Kinsei

Kinsei Artist: Omoide Hatoba
Label: Birdman
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 607287001029
EAN: 0607287001029
ASIN: B000005HOC


Release Date: 1996-05-21

Kinsei


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Tracks:

  1. Kinsei
  2. Alternative Funkaholic
  3. Gion
  4. Go
  5. Satelite Groove
  6. Human Tornado
  7. Japan Dissolution
  8. Good-By! Submarine
  9. Theme For The Ghost Mountains
  10. Cool
  11. Oyaji
  12. Rock'n Roll Fantasia
  13. We Are Hello
  14. White Hour
  15. Amen
  16. Dober-man

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Dada!Only Dada!.......2004-11-02

Here we are,the 5th studio release from experimental goofballs Omoide Hatoba.

One thing to be said about any Omoide album,it's never dull.On any album you might get a mix of(brief)funk,psychedelic music,mutant pop,eastern/western folk,laughing,screaming,singing by people who have no business singing,etc.

These albums are not about pure music,it is about the whole experience.I don't think these guys are very wild onstage,but it sure sounds like it would be a fun party.

It's difficult to describe,beyond what I have,what this music/sound is,you just have to hear it,or be lucky enough to download it.From a licensed music service of course.

Mastermind Seiichi Yamamoto seems to have the ability to play any type of music he wants,he puts out great psychedelic lines,faux jazz noodling,folk,etc.

But what I hear throughout most of his recordings is a short attention span and desire to screw things up instead of following through.He will record a catchy j-pop style song,and mess it up with ambient sound effects,patch cord fuzziness,etc.It makes me wonder what he could be capable of if he just focused and did something more conventional in song structure.

This is the album from an alien jukebox.This is what Ren&Stimpy and their Cartoon Network ilk listen to at 4 in the morning after being kicked out of every bar.

5 out of 5 stars Salvador Dali meets the Ramones & Eno in Osaka.......2001-08-19

Buy this record now! It's annoying as hell if you're not in the mood for it, but strangely soothing and 'ambient' in its hilarious, cathartic ferocity: in short, one of the weirdest MASTERPIECES of pop-culture sophistication I've ever heard in my life.

Only a country as psychotic as Japan could've produced a band like this (or the Heavy Metal group Zeni Geva, for that matter!). The guys in Omoide Hatoba damn near make Captain Beefheart sound like a normal person! But though Beefheart's weirdo act mostly gets on my nerves, there's just no denying the extremely high artistic, and yes! even musically ground-breaking level these Samurai-Punk 'Dadaists' have managed to reach. They all-out take chances nobody else would, combine all kinds of loud, evilly novel electronic noises and make wide-ranging boundary-less Punk-Pop out of it, and yet their whole thing isn't 'artsy' or contrived sounding like John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Laurie Anderson, Ronald Shannon Jackson and some of those kinds of 'experimental' artists. Omoide don't sound like they're doing this to impress you! They're doing this because it's the most natural thing to them. When they do it, because of their cultural background or whatever, it sounds natural, inevitable, NOT FORCED. They seem to have discovered that sticking your neck out as far as possible in every direction of pop-music and then exploding all those cliches in one big burst of energy is the purest, most natural form of expression!

Some of Zorn's stuff is similar but the psychotic purity of attitude and all-out kamikaze-inegrity of Omoide Hatoba is on a much higher level than Zorn's self-consciously neurotic and much more commonplace artsy doodlings in this direction. Hatoba are MASTERS OF SOUND, and they achieve so much subtle variation in this department in the most advanced, cutting-edge ways possible that there's even a song consisting of 1 chord played repeatedly for 7 friggin' minutes over a simple, driving beat that they manage to make absolutely electrifying.

Not that the rest of this record is in any way simplistic; but it is not exactly ultra-complex either, it's just a masterfully-mediated, controlled chaos-salad of pop-rock-punk-funk-reggae-jazz-and-Japanese-folk COMPLETELY UNLIKE any other. It's maybe the only truly 'progressive' record I've heard in a long, long time, but only in the sense that it manages to cover a lot of diverse post-Beefhearthian ground without rehashing any established, 'hip,' western pop, rock, or even punk ways of approaching material. Instead you get the extremely rare combination of totally original approach without its usual concomitant of pretentiousness.

5 out of 5 stars Pretty darn cool, allright..........2001-06-07

Omoide Hatoba, if I've got this straight, are a splinter group of the Japanese avant-rock group the Boredoms. The Boredoms, if you don't know, are a group fronted by Yamataka Eye, who also sang on the Naked City discs and recorded NANI NANI (and some other stuff) with John Zorn. Both Eye and Boredoms drummer Yoshimi (Ooioo, Free Kitten) have been involved in releasing a lot of solo projects and such. Omoide Hatoba --"memory harbour" -- is NOT one of Eye's projects, but are fronted my Yamamoto, the Boredom's guitarist; albums like this demonstrate that EyE is NOT the only genius in the band. While early Boredoms tends to shred the brain a little -- with as much of a hardcore punk/noise influence as an avant-garde experimental one -- Omoide Hatoba are quite a bit more playful and even, at times, twistedly poppy, while remaining just as perverse and strange and delightful. This is one of their most consistently fun discs, and lacks, by the way, the English vocals that appeared on BLACK HAWAII, a previous (?) release of theirs. That's all I'm going to say, though. Fans of avant pop, Japanese experimental music, etc. should definitely check this stuff out.

5 out of 5 stars buy this.......2000-08-25

buy this cd no matter what you might be thinking.

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