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Ground Zero

Plays Standards (2LP)

Label: Not Two Records

Format: 2LP

Genre: Jazz

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** 2LP exclusive 25th Anniversary release **  Finally this day has come - Not Two Records together with Wschodnie Triady and No Earplugs proudly present you special edition of Ground Zero Plays Standards 2-LPs exclusive 25th Anniversary release!

Legendary Ground Zero Plays Standards has been released in 1997 for Nani Records, then reissued for DIW (2000) and ReR (2002). So far it has only been released on CD, until this day. Vinyl edition is available now in limited copies. The vinyl master was meticulously and lovingly prepared, until it has reached the masterpiece quality. There might be no other vinyl in the world made with such precision and passion, where all the sounds are put together again with deep care into a brilliant, new vinyl release. Sound engineer, Adam Toczko, has managed to extract the incredible sounding, which captures the true beauty of this album. Now it’s in your hands. Sit back and enjoy this exclusive masterpiece!

Details
Cat. number: MW1050-1/2
Year: 2022
Notes:
2LP exclusive 25th Anniversary release. Vinyl Sound Master: May 21, 2021 at Kultowe Studio, Warsaw by Adam Toczko. Vinyl Art Master by Małgrzata Lipińska. Wschodnie Triady / NoEarplugs edition for NotTwo Records.
An impressively diverse brew is served up and reconfiguredRead more

Other than Null & Void, this is the most fully realized album from Ground Zero, one of many projects master-minded by ambitious gadfly-turntablist Otomo Yoshihide. Although this Japanese band includes two drummers, a sampler-player, and a shamisen (Japanese stringed instrument) player, the real voice is saxophonist Kikuchi Naruyoshi, whose wails and bleats lead most of the songs here. As far as cover albums go, it's obviously not as historic as Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western, but it's much smarter than Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident?. An impressively diverse brew is served up and reconfigured. Some highlights are Chilean protest singer Victor Jara's "El Derecho De Vivir En Paz done as a driving waltz, torch-class "Those Were The Days" done as a maelstrom, jazz pianist Steve Beresford's "The Bath of Surprise" recorded in audio-verite in an actual bathtub, a lovely sweeping tribute to singer Sakamoto Kyu, a John Philip Sousa march that would make Monty Python proud and a 'Roland Kirk version' of "I Say A Little Prayer." All of which bespeaks of Yoshihide's kaleidoscopic vision of Eastern/Western music, especially appealing here as it's presented in a song-based format that grounds the avant excursions. 

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