YOSHI WADA Off The Wall LP/1985 Avant-Garde/Drone/Steve Reich/La Monte Young

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YOSHI WADA 'Off The Wall' LP (US, Saltern, Catalogue #SLT-003) Brand new/unplayed copy of year 2016 Saltern label limited edition LP (edition of 750 copies only) release of Avant-Garde Bagpipe & homemade organ drone album (originally released on the German FMP label in 1985) by Yoshi Wada.

First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, originally released in 1985 by famed free jazz label FMP. Recorded in Berlin on May 11 and 12, 1984, by a quartet featuring Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ (hand-built by Wada), and Andreas Schmidt Neri on percussion. Edition of 750. Mastered by Rashad Becker and housed in old-style gatefold jackets printed by Stoughton. "Off The Wall belongs somewhere between the exuberant harmolodic ritual of Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head, a damp, medieval dirge and the inner ear soundings of composer Maryanne Amacher" --David Keenan, The Wire. "It may be more accurate to think of Wada as a sculptor than as a composer, because his music seems to be a physical reality, like wood or stone, and also because of the way he treats this material. Most composers work with ideas. Their basic interest is in melodies, harmonies, thematic relationships, tone rows, tonal centers, emotional qualities, and other rather abstract things, all of which can then be conveyed in sound, but none of which really are sound. Wada, on the other hand, works directly with the sound itself. His music would sound silly arranged for church organ for example. And if he prefers to preserve some improvisatory freedom rather than to notate specific musical ideas, this is at least partly because he is not so interested in the kinds of musical ideas that can be written down on paper. He wants to maintain direct contact with the physical reality of the sound." --Tom Johnson

- First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, featuring a quartet of Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ (hand-built by Wada), and Andreas Schmidt Neri on percussion.
- Composed by Yoshi Wada; recorded on May 11 and 12, 1984, in Berlin.
- Originally released in 1985 by Free Music Production (SAJ-49); recorded and produced by Jost Gebers.
- Mastered by Rashad Becker.
- Presented in old-style gatefold jackets printed by Stoughton.
- Photographs by Marilyn Bogerd; layout by Marco del Rio.
- Edition of 750.
- "Off The Wall belongs somewhere between the exuberant harmolodic ritual of Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head, a damp, medieval dirge and the inner ear soundings of composer Maryanne Amacher." --David Keenan, The Wire
- "When we began playing the bagpipe, it was quite loud and we physically felt the strong bounce back of the sound from the walls. . . . After this sound experience, I wanted to extend the search in the meticulous variations of the timbre and to build up the sound spectrum in constant transformations to its maximum density. I found the possibility of using the organ pipes to be able to produce variational complexed sonority combined with the bagpipe instruments. I ran around to a few churches in Berlin to hear the acoustics and the pipe organ. It was an experience for me to get into building the pipe organ from scratch. I somehow managed to build a five octave range homemade organ for this ensemble composition." --from Yoshi Wada's liner notes

(NOTE: LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES ONLY!)

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• Off The Wall I (20:27)
• Off The Wall II (20:02)

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