Sharebee Control tower says, "GET ALBUM, breakdown."Rev. Syung Myung Me is on a Japanese avant-jazz kick, so here's another group in the same vein.
Tsuneo Imahori is most famous for his soundtrack work on Trigun, Cowboy Bebop and various entries in the Gungrave series. But before all that, he played guitar in the eccentric Japanese jazz ensemble Tipographica. Those fans of RIO-type jazz (like Henry Cow and Etron Fou Leloublan) and Frank Zappa in the mid-'70s will feel at home with this. Every song pulls you into its playful unpredictable turns, if harmlessly baffling at times. The Engrish song titles add to the confusion of musical goings on.
Tracks:1. Friends
2. Control tower says, "TP-1, break down."
3. a) AM 3:28 Shinjuku b) AM 3:45 Kasumigaseki c) AM 5:02 Berlin --> White-collar worker VS Black rubber man
4. And then Last ship is going
5. MC-500
(Japanese room (We have no ZEN))
6. Laughin' photograph
7. Forest tipographical II
You can find more information (in English) on this album on their other albums at
Gnosis2000.net.
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AWEX0me! Thank you! I didn't know that this was the guy who did the Cowboy Bebop music, too. I never really got into the show, but the title sequence/song is amazing.
ReplyDeleteThat would be Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts, but Tsuneo Imahori is part of the Seatbelts.
ReplyDeleteI might post a Cowboy Bebop best-of here in the comments a little later. (I prefer to keep the main entries for hard-to-find, odd, or OOP stuff.)
Here's the first of the 3 main OST releases. I'm sure you can find the rest easily on the P2P circuits. (The Taiwanese bootlegs add to the over-availability).
ReplyDeleteGimme! Gimme! Gimme! and album credits
The Limited Box is also worth hunting down for the alternate versions and an additional live album. Yeah, it's all good stuff.