Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Dig how “Better Get Hit

Dig how “Better Get Hit in Your Soul

as almost everything that follows seems evocative of some sort of remote nocturnal grove

the harmonic foundation drops out from under the piece while two more voices join

Gerry Mulligan

The incredible breadth of Curran’s output makes it pretty unlikely that a listener familiar with his work would be surprised to find it branching out in a new direction

Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Dig how “Better Get Hit"Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985. To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Japanoise was both made