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The silence conceiving the heaviest sound inside….
The 5th album “Desert Moon” made by the on- going duo of Japanese and French since 2007, expressing the “international melancholy”, commonly shared by all the people without race, delivers the crisis of the time that may cover the entire world or even the entire planet with some intense sound which brings about the collective unconsciousness of the early 21st century.
As the title, Desert Moon, suggests, that it starts out with the prolonged sound of guitar and the sad simple melody on the 1st track, string tremolo devoted to Nico and the repetition spiraled organ- like loop in reverse on the 2nd track, followed with the 3rd track of where Bartok-like rhythm, melody and voice meet as mantra, and such undefinable various music continues.
The 4th track “Inside the Penitence Box” demolishes the western order with the roaring sound of guitar with effects and the piano’s extended technique, leading to the next track of the cover, “gloomy sunday”, the famous chanson from the time between the first and second World Wars. On top of the totally distorted repetitive “gloomy” melody as the word represents, Fukuoka Rinji, the guest vocalist of Hijokaidan’s Junko, and the poetry reading and screaming voice of Dana Valser, the Spanish female musician living in France, come lay on top of each other.
The last song is “Ballad of Josef K” devoted to Frantz Kafka. With this labyrinth of maybe a ceaseless hallway of a huge building appeared in “the judge”, this whole 48 mins-long closes.
This duo of Fukuoka Rinji and Michel Henritzi have been performing in Europe and Japan numerous times, and other than the official five works including this very latest, they have released a split with Junko who’s a guest musician on this album, too, vinyl with an Italian musician, Luca Massolin, and cassettes from a German label and more in the last 10 or more years of them playing together. This album, Desert Moon, shows completely a different approach from the public image people may have towards “Majutsu no Niwa” and “Dust Bleeders” of their own projects, but those tunes delicately mixed and edited in a studio will reach widely to free music, psychedelic, contemporary music, traditional world music, collage, poetry reading and all the music lovers.
Fukuoka Rinji
The leader of Overhang Party in 1991- 2008, Majutsu no Niwa from 2008 and manages Pataphysique Records since 1994. He has played in various groups in the past and present. There are many releases and works he has participated. He does also engineering for rock and free music, and is a versatile player of various instruments.
Michel Henritzi
Guitars, lapsteel & amp. from noise to abstract blues. Member of noise unit dust breeders, mile of string & o death jug. Regular partner to Junko (hijokaïdan), Rinji Fukuoka (majustsu no niwa) & Kumiko Karino. played with Tetuzi Akiyama, aqui avec gabriel, Shinichi Isohata, Masayoshi Urabe, Chie Mukai, Jojo Hiroshige, Ito Atsuhiro, Mattin, Nihilist Spasm Band…
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The silence conceiving the heaviest sound inside….
The 5th album “Desert Moon” made by the on- going duo of Japanese and French since 2007, expressing the “international melancholy”, commonly shared by all the people without race, delivers the crisis of the time that may cover the entire world or even the entire planet with some intense sound which brings about the collective unconsciousness of the early 21st century.
As the title, Desert Moon, suggests, that it starts out with the prolonged sound of guitar and the sad simple melody on the 1st track, string tremolo devoted to Nico and the repetition spiraled organ- like loop in reverse on the 2nd track, followed with the 3rd track of where Bartok-like rhythm, melody and voice meet as mantra, and such undefinable various music continues.
The 4th track “Inside the Penitence Box” demolishes the western order with the roaring sound of guitar with effects and the piano’s extended technique, leading to the next track of the cover, “gloomy sunday”, the famous chanson from the time between the first and second World Wars. On top of the totally distorted repetitive “gloomy” melody as the word represents, Fukuoka Rinji, the guest vocalist of Hijokaidan’s Junko, and the poetry reading and screaming voice of Dana Valser, the Spanish female musician living in France, come lay on top of each other.
The last song is “Ballad of Josef K” devoted to Frantz Kafka. With this labyrinth of maybe a ceaseless hallway of a huge building appeared in “the judge”, this whole 48 mins-long closes.
This duo of Fukuoka Rinji and Michel Henritzi have been performing in Europe and Japan numerous times, and other than the official five works including this very latest, they have released a split with Junko who’s a guest musician on this album, too, vinyl with an Italian musician, Luca Massolin, and cassettes from a German label and more in the last 10 or more years of them playing together. This album, Desert Moon, shows completely a different approach from the public image people may have towards “Majutsu no Niwa” and “Dust Bleeders” of their own projects, but those tunes delicately mixed and edited in a studio will reach widely to free music, psychedelic, contemporary music, traditional world music, collage, poetry reading and all the music lovers.
Fukuoka Rinji
The leader of Overhang Party in 1991- 2008, Majutsu no Niwa from 2008 and manages Pataphysique Records since 1994. He has played in various groups in the past and present. There are many releases and works he has participated. He does also engineering for rock and free music, and is a versatile player of various instruments.
Michel Henritzi
Guitars, lapsteel & amp. from noise to abstract blues. Member of noise unit dust breeders, mile of string & o death jug. Regular partner to Junko (hijokaïdan), Rinji Fukuoka (majustsu no niwa) & Kumiko Karino. played with Tetuzi Akiyama, aqui avec gabriel, Shinichi Isohata, Masayoshi Urabe, Chie Mukai, Jojo Hiroshige, Ito Atsuhiro, Mattin, Nihilist Spasm Band…
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released June 5, 2018
Fukuoka Rinji, Michel Henritzi / Desert Moon
artist: Fukuoka Rinji, Michel Henritzi
title: Desert Moon
format: CD
label: Pataphysique Records
number: DD-016
Guest Vocal Junko (HIJOKAIDAN), Dana Valser on M4
- Desert Moon
- Song for Nico
- Hungarian Snake Dance
- Inside of the Penitence Box
- Sombre Demanche (Gloomy Sunday)
- Ballad of Josef K
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