FileCat premium

Yosuke Yamashita, Bill Laswell, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Asian Games (1993) [Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Free-Funk, Experimental Jazz
User avatar
Mike1985
Uploader
Posts: 73495
Joined: 24 Jan 2016, 16:51

Yosuke Yamashita, Bill Laswell, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Asian Games (1993) [Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Unread postby Mike1985 » 23 Mar 2024, 10:41


Artist: Yosuke Yamashita, Bill Laswell, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Album: Asian Games
Genre: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Future Jazz
Label: Verve Forecast
Released: 1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Melting Pot (Yamashita-Laswell-Skopelitis) - 7:14
  2. Chasin' the Air (Yamashita-Sakamoto) - 4:48
  3. Asian Games (Yamashita-Laswell-Skopelitis) - 6:53
  4. Ninja Drive (Yamashita-Laswell-Skopelitis) - 7:54
  5. Napping on the Bamboo (Yamashita-Sakamoto) - 5:50
  6. A Parade of Rain, the Moon and a Bride (Yamashita) - 2:46

DOWNLOAD FROM FILECAT.NET >>>

    Personnel:
  • Yosuke Yamashita - piano, keyboards
  • Bill Laswell - bass, prepared bass, sitar, sounds
  • Nicky Skopelitis - Fairlight, sounds
  • Aiyb Dieng - congas, gongs, tambourine, spring, cymbals
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards

The usually technophobic Yamashita teams up with tech-heads Bill Laswell and Ryuichi Sakamoto and comes up with an oddly bland record. The setup sounds awkward: Yamashita didn't really trust working "with machines," but Sakamoto designed a studio system of synthesizers and samplers to put the more analog jazzman at ease. Recorded in 1988, a few of the tracks bear strong similarities to Sakamoto's Neo Geo of that same year, particularly "Melting Pot" and "Ninja Drive." The former includes samples of the same Lebanese singer -- Dunya Yusin -- and song used on Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and New Order's "Angel Dust." It's a good track, with Laswell's bass keeping things simultaneously funky and intellectual. But many of these pieces here sound like a piano improviser lost in the middle of a sampledelic soundscape, with neither musician connecting (the question to ask is whether these tracks would not work without the piano -- the answer unfortunately says much about the album).
Review by Ted Mills

Return to “Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation (lossless - FLAC, APE, etc.)”