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artist :: bisk
release :: moonstruck parade
year :: 2001
genre :: lo-fi
label :: quatermass records
catalogue :: qs102
website :: www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/bisk/
ripper :: decimetre
date :: 09/15/2001
quality :: 192kbps/44,100hz
source :: compact disc
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01 blase 4:19
02 shamrock in your eyes 4:35
03 moonstruck parade 5:27
04 why are there such variations? 3:37
05 coyote / sunbeam 2:38
06 miss lizzie 4:34
07 splashy girls 4:49
08 mockup 4:25
09 ticky ticky bang bang 4:22
10 cabaret 5:09
11 shelly crade 3:17
12 nothing but love out of her 4:42
playtime :: 00h 51m 54s
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Not one to sell short his greatest talent, Bisk (aka Naohiro
Fujikawa) titled his 1996 debut release Time. It was a revolution
in digital music. Bisk treated the sampler and the sequencer with
healthy disrespect, building up richly textured counterpoint only
to tear it apart with a smirk and head on off elsewhere. His
rhythms reflected as much hip-hop spunk as jazz swing.
Five years and three records later, Bisk still offers the same
signature quirkiness and attention to detail. Moonstruck Parade
makes substantially more use of the human voice (sampling, among
others, a delicious female voice that's *very* Ella Fitzgerald).
Strategically placed around bleeps, beats, and various sampled
instruments, the human voice remains yet another thread in Bisk's
tangled and evolving web of sound. Other textures making their
presence felt on the new record: saxophones, steel drums, guitars,
and scratches.
Moonstruck Parade generally follows a loosely swinging rhythm,
constructed by the strategic arrangement of synth tones, drum
machine noises, and lots of "clean" samples. When one element of
the counterpoint wanders off, another sound creeps in to take its
place. Or, just when you least expect it, Bisk breaks everything
down and moves in another direction. At times actual linear
melodies sneak into the mix, like the occasional child-like piano
tinkering. But these melodies fade away as soon as they're found
out.
The playful nature of this disc provides extra insulation against
the twin evils of pretense and rigidity, which often ruin
experimental electronica. But at the same time, Bisk's apparent
sense of "just goofing around with the toys" betrays a frail
self-consciousness... which is just what we like in our
experimental music. -- Nils Jacobson: allaboutjazz.com
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