K2 : Hepatopolitika

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Format: LP [UMA133]
Shipping Weight: 0.47lbs
Label: Urashima

2,999円

'Japanese sound artist Kimihide Kusafuka, better known as K2, originally came onto the scene in 1981, in order to explore the possibility of noise. The activities at that time were only the creation of cassette works and actions in the world of mail art with no live performance. A few years later, he suspended his music activities to concentrate on his studies and returned in 1993 after having just graduated as a Pathologist. K2 perceives no alteration between the act of making noise and the act of science and he practices a kind of alchemy through his noise. Hepatopolitika , an ultra-rare work released in 1994 on transparent vinyl by German label Praxis Dr. Bearmann in only 125 numbered copies, represents in an exemplary way the idea just expressed. He sets one's sights of metamorphosize himself with both the awareness he gets from his scientific experiments and the emotional strength he obtains from performing and listening to noise. The work is essentially a cut-ups noise oriented in its most exhausting form and in its rawest form. The sound is exceptionally lo-fi; the actual aggression of sound deconstruction in both sides leaves you astonished and consists in amazing assemblage of crashing, creaking, and scraping sounds made with pieces of junk metal plus concrete music and voice, edited in a jarring, unpredictable style.'

Tracklist
A1 New Value In My Pocket 5:13
A2 Hepatopolitika Part 1 12:26
A3 Half Cut Motion 5:05
B1 Driver Zero 1:47
B2 Peace Of Pieces 3:16
B3 Miss Thompson Sang In The Winter River 7:22
B4 Hepatopolitika Part 2 6:14
B5 Amplification 3:14
Recorded At ? Oncosonik Laboratory

Credits
Mixed By ? K2

Notes
Recorded Dec. 1993 - Jun. 1994.
Mixed Oct. 1994.
Reissue of 199 copies on black vinyl.
Originally released in 1994 on Praxis Dr. Bearmann in a numbered limited edition of 125 copies on clear vinyl.