Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Various Artists
Oto No Hajimari Motomete Vol. 1 - Hiroshi Shiotani's works

Sound Three No Cat

CD
£20.99


Debut volume of this on-going series that works as a companion run to Omega Point’s Obscure Tape Music Of Japan series, compiling hard-to-source recordings of early Japanese electronic music made at NHK recording studio (Nippon Housou Kyoukai: National Broadcasting Association). “Hiroshi Shiotani was an engineer of NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai: National Broadcasting association) electronic music studio, and then he cooperated with some avant-garde composers of Japan. This CD get Shiotani's works together, and released several years ago as a memorial of him when he died. It was repressed 500 copies by a private studio. All tracks are legendary early electronic works of Toshiro Matuzumi and Makoto Moroi. These works had originally released in '50s-'60s, but we have not been able to listen long time because all LPs was out of print long ago. Contents: Toshiro Matuzumi "Music for sine wave by proportion of prime number"(1954), Toshiro Matuzumi "Music for modulated wave by proportion of prime number"(1954), Toshiro Matuzumi "Invention for square wave and saw-tooth wave"(1954), Toshiro Matuzumi & Makoto Moroi"Variations on numerical principle of 7"(1956), Makoto Moroi "Stars of Pythagoras"(1959), Makoto Moroi "Variete"(1962), Toshiro Matuzumi "Olympic Campanology"(1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen"Telemusik"(1966) This repress edition included the original source of Stockhausen's "Telemusik" (he had come to Japan and made this work at NHK studio. Shiotani helped him.)” – ST. Highly recommended.