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Yoshi Wada

Off the wall

Label: EM Records

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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The long-awaited and reissue of Wada's 1985 LP "Off The Wall", recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive", as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), "Off The Wall" features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri.

The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynamics of the quartet without losing the meditative delicacy of the bagpipes and the intricacy of their interplay with the homemade organ (constructed by Wada), resulting in a slowly evolving mosaic of combination tones and overtones. Simultaneously static yet changing, rooted and ethereal, homespun and alien, ancient and very modern, the music is created entirely with acoustic instruments but has "electronic" textures at times, yet is very warm and human, always pulsing, shifting and mutating.

EM Records/Omega Point is pleased indeed to release "Off The Wall" for the first time ever on CD, with the bonus track "Die Konsonanten Pfeifen (The Consonant Pipes)", a slightly earlier recording with Wada and Hankin on bagpipes and Kevin Newhoff on percussion, originally released as a cassette.

Details
Cat. number: EM1078CD
Year: 2025

Release notes

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded May 11th + 12th, 1984 Berlin. Track 3 recorded at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio, Berlin on December 1st, 1983. Tracks 1 & 2 originally issued on FMP Records (SAJ-49) in 1985. Track 3 is a bonus track, originally issued on cassette by Künstlerhaus Bethanien edition in 1983. Gatefold three panel paper-sleeve with obi and insert containing a graphic score and a reproduction of the original liner notes for "Off the Wall". Issued under license from Yoshi Wada (tracks 1…

Tracklist
1Off The Wall I20:27
2Off The Wall II20:02
3Die Konsonanten Pfeifen27:23
Credits
Wayne Hankin
Bagpipes
Yoshi Wada
Composed By, Bagpipes, Liner Notes
Manfred Kussatz
Design [Original Front Cover Design]
Tom Johnson
Liner Notes
井部治
Liner Notes [Japanese Translation, Additional Footnotes]
Marilyn Bogerd
Organ [Adapted] (1, 2), Photography By [Front & Back Cover]
Andreas Schmidt-Neri
Percussion (1, 2)
Dagmar Gebers
Photography By
Jost Gebers
Recorded By, Mixed By, Producer (1, 2)