YOSHI WADA Lament.. LP dreyblatt niblock la monte young
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Dec 29, 2008 Sold Date
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YOSHI WADA

Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile LP

Original first edition
India Navigation #IN3025 USA
Release date 1982

EARLY MINIMALISM MASTERPIECE
SERIOUSLY RARE NOWADAYS

COVER EX++
(2 slightly used corners)
VINYL NM

Amazing hallucination-inspiring ambient drone recording, employing both vocals and handmade giant bagpipe-type reed instruments recorded in an empty swimming pool in Buffalo. Echoes of Harry Bertoia, Harry Partch, Lasry-Baschet, La Monte Young, Arnold Dreyblatt, Charlemagne Palestine, etc.

Yoshi Wada, from the liner notes on the back cover: "Lament For the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile" is a vocal and instrumental work, on which I started working in 1979. This recording is meant to be one continuous piece; side A: solo singing & side B: the instrumental music of the bagpipe with singing. The piece itself is an experiment with reed & improvisational singing within the modal structure. The instrument could be played solo or as a drone accompaniment for voice. I originally built the bagpipe instrument out of plumbing fittings & pipes pumped by a large air compressor. I called it "An adapted bagpipe with sympathy". Since that time, the original instrument has been altered and improved for the stability of the air source and accuracy of the tuning.

For those who are not familiar with the artist
Japanese sound installation artist and musician living now in the United States. He was born in 1943 in Kyoto and studied sculpture at Kyoto City University of Fine Arts. In 1967 Wada moved to New York City. In 1968 he joined the Fluxus group. He has studied music with La Monte Young, Pandit Pran Nath, James McIntosh and others.


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