a r t i s t : Hose
t i t l e : Hose
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Headz (HEADZ 97)
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2009
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 65,6 MB
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*Ripper's note: This is a split release between Headz and
Unknown Mix (UNKNOWNMIX 4). The title of track 9 included the
symbols for degrees and minutes so I used these words when
tagging. These co-ordinates refer to the site of R'lyeh, a
fictional city that first appeared in the story, "The Call of
Cthulhu," by H. P. Lovecraft. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R'lyeh
Hose remind these ears of Maher Shalal Hash Baz and high
school brass band reheasrsals!
HOSE was formed at the end of last century as an idea of Taku
Unami with Toshihiro Koike, Masafumi Ezaki, who had also been
working in the field of improvised music, and their friends
Reiji Hattori and Tomoya Izumi who had never played music
before. In the beginning, the group was influenced by Genesis,
Roswell Rudd Trio, Brujeria, Art Bears, Karate Bakabon,
Hoburakin, Aburadako etc. though these influences were soon to
be forgotten. HOSE disbanded in 2003 when their music had
developed into "easy listening-style melodies played with
scant regard for traditional popular music song structures.
Furthermore everything is scratched and scraped by Izumi's
scream and the attack of his never-tuned bass". Suddenly HOSE
started to play again in 2006. Since then HOSE have been
active, playing at "Kid Ailack Light-Music Festival" (May,
2006), "Festival Beyond Innocence" (November, 2006), "Enban
Jamboree" as a choir of 40 people (January, 2007), recording
at Loop-Line (March, 2007) and visiting H.P.Lovecraft's grave
(April, 2007).
http://ontonson.com/index.php?
main_page=product_music_info&products_id=1309&language=en
All music by Taku Unami
Hose
Masafumi Ezaki: trumpet
Toshihiro Koike: trombone
Taku Unami: guitar
Tomoya Izumi: bass
Reiji Hattori: bodhra'n
Kanji Nakao: trombone (1), chorus (12)
Takuya Sakamoto: counting (1), chorus (12)
Masato Eguchi: chorus (12)
Takafumi Ogiwara: chorus (12)
Yusuke Sakagami: chorus (12)
Sei: chorus (12)
Kozue Takayama: chorus (12)
Junichiro Tanaka: chorus (12)
Mitsue Toda: chorus (12)
Yasuo Totsuka: chorus (12)
Takefumi Naoshima: chorus (12)
Momo Nonaka: chorus (12)
Ayako Hattori: chorus (12)
Tomoko Yamaguchi: chorus (12)
Shintaro Watanabe: chorus (12)
Recorded at Loop-Line, March 11 and 23, 2007
Mastered by Taku Unami
Drawing by Tomoya Izumi
Design by Akira Sasaki
Includes liner notes (12 prose poems) in Japanese by Chorui
Ogasawara
Released in July 2007
http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/headz/hose.html
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01-A Thing That Is Not As It Has Been Used To Be [16:00]
02-Would You Mind Being Re-Animated [01:51]
03-A Monk Who Reserves [02:34]
04-Hankyu-Rokko On The Seabed [04:49]
05-Parabola Towards Death [03:40]
06-Lark [01:41]
07-Captain (For Tetuzi Akiyama) [06:28]
08-On Death [03:20]
09-47 Degrees 9 Minutes S 126 Degrees 43 Minutes W [03:18]
10-Hankyu-Rokko On The Seabed [04:47]
11-An Excuse To Live [02:44]
12-Piano [03:34]
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54:46 min