Dislocation

A 1992 Osaka compilation of Japanese noise, first issued on CD by Les Disques du Soleil: Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Solmania, Dislocation, Monde Bruits, Masonna, Violent Onsen Geisha and Incapacitants.

2026 stock, reduced price ** Original Single Sided, Numbered **  Nagoya produced a noise and improvisation scene that ran largely parallel to the Osaka-Tokyo axis - less documented, less exported, but no less intense. Dislocation was one of its legendary formations, a collective comprising Toyohiro Okazaki, Yoshimei Yanagawa, Keishi Kiyokawa, Fujio Kimura, and others, whose name appeared alongside Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Masonna, Monde Bruits, Solmania, Incapacitants, and Violent Onsen Geisha on the …

Way-above-average improv from Japan. Electric strings (guitars?), saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease frommeditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter. Sax player Yoshinori Yanagawa plays with the same sort of depth and passion as Albert Ayler-no fakin, no academic rendering. But hes only part of a much larger whole. The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology. Strange (not wei…