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previous artist: the hidden hand		there are 3 titles featuring kato hideki in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: yôko higashi

$20.43

back in stock as of
may 24th, 2010

first in stock on
may 18th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
harsh-noise
modern-psych
plunder-phonic
playback-music
sound-poetry

doubtmusic (japan) #dm 114 cd

ground-zero “live 1992+” compact disc

orange (0:52)
metal spy (0:30)
bottom out-x (4:46)
vs (1:27)
vv (1:20)
ground-zero 1992 (4:43)
mango (1:11)
pseudopodium (3:15)
wzr-fm (2:04)
lime (3:15)
lam chen - ying (8:22)
vt (5:56)
grape (0:16)

ah... this one takes me back...

ground-zero were of course otomo yoshihide’s long-running free-jazz/improv/noise/psych unit, blazing something of a singular path between august 1990 & march 1998 featuring a rotating lineup that, over the years, included such heavyweights as kato hideki, makigami koichi, masahiro uemura, yamatsuka/yamantaka eye, hirose junji , tony buck, tenko, ryoji hojito, mick harris, hoppy kamiyama, sei’chi yamamoto, samm bennett, kazuhisa uchihashi, mitsuru nasuno, masaki shimizu, yasuhuro yoshigaki, sachiko m, masahiko okura, and kazunao nagata.

this early concert from february 1992 (recorded @ 20000v in tokyo) features otomo, hirose junji, kato hideki, uemura masahiro, and yamantaka eye; sonically much closer to the raw blat of the boredoms than anything you’d associate with otomo these days - at this stage he was still playing a sawed-off guitar with a metal pipe and turntables (often scratching/jump-cutting all over distorted hip-hop beats & rock guitar - listen to the sound-clip - closer to something like john oswald’s plunderphonics) with eye caterwauling all over the place, and the rest of the band following suit with disjointed rhythmic jabs & all kinds of free-scream gestures...

two studio pieces at the end of the disc, in all of their damaged-fidelity glory, rule. an excellent disc, especially great for the boredoms fan or anyone with a soft-spot for otomo’s noisier excursions...

doubtmusic press release...

doubtmusic / dmh-114
ground-zero
live 1992 +

otomo yoshihide (guitar, turntables)
hirose junji (sax)
kato hideki (bass, voice)
uemura masahiro (drums)
yamataka eye (voice)

this cd includes unissued live performances and studio recordings (12, 13) right after otomo formed ground-zero. this happened before the release of their first album, called "ground-zero" (god mountain). their playing is in the rough and sound quality is not quite best, but this materials should be kept a record of their intence performances of earlier ground-zero for future ages. this is remembrance of fresh / poisonous earlier ground-zero after interval of 15 years.

composed by otomo (1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 11), hirose & eye (4), kato & eye (5), otomo & eye (12), all members (7,8,10,13)

please note that noise and gaps in the sound are due to the recording conditions and the nature of the music. thank you for your understanding.

$20.43

back in stock as of
may 24th, 2010

first in stock on
december 30th, 2006

threads:
modern-composition

doubtmusic (japan) #dm 106 cd

kato hideki “green zone” compact disc

gates of hell (1:43)
bremer walls (7:43)
agent orange (2:05)
oil & water (1:53)
crave (6:01)
enemy within (6:03)
copper green (3:19)
curtains of grief (10:12)
agent orange 2 (8:59)
hope against hope (1:18)
okinawa (4:00)

doubtmusic press release...

doubtmusic / dmf-106
kato hideki
green zone

kato hideki (bass, violin) formed a new group last year with his friend, otomo yoshihide (guitar) and uemura mashiro (drums). they were the member of early "ground-zero", otomo's rock group. green zone is completely kato's composition and arrangement and its sound is so heavy.

back in the fall of 2001, i couldn't keep my eyes off of a pair of pictures from the new york times: one was the world trade center site after the 9/11 attacks, and the other was a satellite picture of kabul, a few days before the us raid. both looked like surfaces of petrified planets and were disturbingly similar.

several months later, i found myself on a near-empty flight from nyc to tokyo, my first return to japan since i emigrated in 1992. soon after my feet touched the ground, i heard that the us had started bombing iraq. (and the day i returned to nyc, the us administration proclaimed the end of the war.)

rather than making a statement based on what i already knew and being "gung ho" about it, i started to research and collect stories about what was really going on in iraq and beyond; then i came up with music for each title. i see this as a documentary film without pictures.i returned to japan in 2004 and was joined by my old colleagues otomo and uemura. together we have a strong, unique voice, like a pack. we can howl together like "el lobos."i hope the music will unfold the stories as you listen. i hope too that you will keep your eyes and ears open to new stories. what you find may be gut-wrenching or depressing but sometimes darkness can help you find a way--a personal revolution or even a social progression--like caravaggio's paintings or johnny cash's hymns can.

kato hideki august 20, 2005 brooklyn, nyc

$16.72

back in stock as of
november 20th, 2007

first in stock on
august 30th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

improvised music from japan (japan) #imj 522 cd

kato hideki / james fei “sieves” compact disc

(10:47)
(4:52)
(5:21)
(7:09)
(3:00)
(4:51)
(7:54)

improvised music from japan press release...

improvised music from japan / imj
kato hideki / james fei
sieves

improvised music from japan, imj-522
released on september 26, 2004

recorded by kato hideki and james fei at o'farrill kato studio, nyc, june 2003, and organized sound, nyc, august 2003
reverberation at columbia university computer music center, september 2003
mastered at organized sound by kato hideki and james fei
design by tanabemse
packaged in a cardboard jacket
includes liner notes in japanese by kato hideki and in english by james fei

kato hideki: electric bass and bass synthesizer
james fei: oscillators, filters, spring reverb, contact mike, and miscellaneous electronics

based in new york city since 1992, kato hideki--a former member of otomo yoshihide's group ground-zero and tony buck's band peril--has been involved in myriad projects in america and europe, including fred frith and ikue mori's death ambient, and a multimedia collaboration with nicholas collins. taiwan-born james fei studied with alvin lucier and anthony braxton following his move to the u.s. (also in '92). now living in new york, he's active as a composer and improviser, and as an instructor at columbia university's computer music center. fei is also a sax player, although he doesn't use the instrument on this album. in recent years, kato and fei have been performing as a duo at live music venues and galleries in new york. sieves was made through a process of excerpting, editing, mixing, and mastering electronic performance and recording using feedback; live-performance-like analog mixes; and performance-recording of acoustic reverberation. not limited to mere documentation and editing, the recording process was treated as a form of improvisation and composition.

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