Musical Group Called Japan
Larry Spence
>I have been hunting high and low for a live concert album from Japan. The group
>not the Country. This album is called "Oil on Canvas" and I cant find the
> blasted thing anywhere. I have David Sylvians solo album "Gone to Earth" and
>It's quite good. Please tell me where I can find the thing. Thanks
It's only available on import CD (Virgin) as far as I know. Shops around
here usually sell it at $18.99. If you don't have "Tin Drum," I'd buy that
first. It's a classic. But the performances on "Oil On Canvas" are very
good, especially considering the range of sounds the band has to come up with
in a live concert.
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Larry Spence
larry@csccat
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Morbidia
Bj|rn Lisper
%In article <1990Feb12....@oswego.Oswego.EDU> dath3620@rocky
%(Morbidia) writes:
%> blasted thing anywhere. I have David Sylvians solo album "Gone to Earth" and
%>It's quite good. Please tell me where I can find the thing. Thanks
%It's only available on import CD (Virgin) as far as I know. Shops around
%here usually sell it at $18.99.
Beware of that some tracks are missing on the CD. They squeezed the double
album into one CD, so therefore they had to cut some. There's a David
Sylvian box nowadays that apparently contains the full version of "Gone to
Earth".
Bjorn Lisper
David J Sotnick
to have it on vinyl, but decided that digital was the way to go!
I also saw some other Japan CDs where I went (some people from Mass came to
our campus selling import cds) But I didn't see the live recording.
Sorry!
Dave Sotnick
fro...@pawl.rpi.edu
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Stephen King
Pop rock trash, decidedly not exotic.
I would like to make an informal study of African music, starting with the
Zulus. If anyone has pointers to currently available recordings of
traditional/modern Zulu music, could you please post same. I would also
welcome a discussion of the effects of modern music on traditional African
music. I have heard several recordings wherein traditional drum rythyms
were combined with more modern jazz riffs and melodies to create an almost
totally new sound (very exotic). Any leads?
Larry Spence
>In article <1990Feb12....@oswego.Oswego.EDU> dath3620@rocky (Morbidia) writes:
>>I have been hunting high and low for a live concert album from Japan.
>
>Pop rock trash, decidedly not exotic.
Eat flaming object code, snob!
John Horvath
>Zulus. If anyone has pointers to currently available recordings of
>traditional/modern Zulu music, could you please post same. I would also
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Two leads for Zulu music:
1 - folkways records catalog
2 - Afropop radio
A long time ago, the creator of folkways records (Moses Ascher???)
started making records of every exotic thing he could find, without
regards to commercial success. The folkways catalog grew to be several
thousand titles long. An admirable attempt was made to keep every
title in print. A few years ago, the owner retired (or passed away?)
and the company was passed to the Smithsonian. They have started a
program to maintain the availability of the recordings to the public
through the Folkway Program. (A large percentage of the catalog is
american folk music, early and once current.)
The more popular titles are being made available through Rounder
Records. They will also sell some of the currently existing issues
until they run out. Once a title is sold out, the smithsonian will
make a copy from the master tapes for you onto a cassette and package
it into a 5 x 7 box with original liner notes. ($10.95 + shipping)
( This sounds like it would be fun to get, regardless of the contents.)
I have catalogs from both the folkways program and rounder. I looked
through for zulu music and couldn't see one explicitly titled as such.
(most entries just list titles and order number). But I did see
one that might be close:
8857 Bantu High Life - "Contempory S. African folksongs.
Vocal w/orch. (Don't the Bantu speak Zulu?)
There were lots of others that were ambiguously titled like
African drums
African and afro-american drums
Africa south of the sahara
etc
lots of specific areas:
Music of the Dogomba from Ghana
The Music of the Kung Brushmen (sic?) of the Kalahari Desert
Music of Mozambique
etc
Folkways has a lot of other strange records like 5 different
collections of steam locomotives, "voices of satellites" and
interviews (Sir Edmund Hillary on mt climbing, L.H.Oswald's
letters to his mother). But again, the largest percentage of stuff
is american folk music (Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie etc)
I have been overwhelmed by the choices and have yet to order one.
For more info:
Office of Folklike Programs
955 l'Enfant Plaza Suite 2600
Smithsonian Institution
Washington D.C. 20560
Rounder Records
1 Camp Street
Cambridge MA 02140
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Lead number 2:
There is a syndicated radio show called Afropop that is on two
National Public Radio stations in Boston (WBUR on saturdays
and WGBH on fridays). It features contempory african music and is
hosted by a DJ Josh Callena (sp??). The DJ is great to hear because
he is really upbeat and informative about everything he plays. Usually
he does a show dedicated to one topic and proceeds somewhat
historicaly (or at least gives the history of the individual song.)
I vaguely remember him doing a show on contempory zulu music(??).
Good luck with your search
John Shipman
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| I would like to make an informal study of African music,
| starting with the Zulus. If anyone has pointers to currently
| available recordings of traditional/modern Zulu music, could
| you please post same.
A white South African named Johnny Clegg has led two groups,
Juluka and Savuka, that play an eclectic blend of styles with
a Zulu foundation. Clegg started out as an anthropology student
studying Zulu culture. His love of Zulu music led him to track
down a legendary Zulu guitarist named Sipho Mchunu, and their
popular singing duo, Johnny and Sipho, eventually became
Juluka. I saw them live in 1984 in San Francisco, at one of
the most amazing concerts I've ever seen. Juluka broke up,
and Clegg formed Savuka; I saw them last year on Johnny Carson.
This is very high-energy music; it is hard to resist dancing
to it. Some of the lyrics are Zulu, some in English.
Juluka's ``Scatterlings'' and the two Savuka albums are
still in print and available on CD; I like them very much,
and never tire of their music. Clegg's bands are interracial
and will not play segregated venues. A friend of mine tells
me that their concerts in South Africa have always been
extremely popular, attracting every age, race, and culture.
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John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
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