Ohta Keiichi no Jingadaimakyo - Yen Records - 1983

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Ohta Keiichi no Jingadaimakyo - Yen Records - LP - 1983
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"If you take the long view of any art movement, it looks like a bunch of worms wriggling in one's place. No one's trying to break through; non one's aware of other places, of other planes of existence. And it all follows a circular path."
Keiichi Ohta, in Bananafish #14

It can be blessed, at first sight, as a para-Guernica record, and as the Ginwaha utau 7", this kind of aside piece revealing the whole project.
And although Guernica in itself constitues a major precious jewel, already blessed 10000 times, maybe this one already warms you up with a deeper, sharper, and stranger feeling.

This is one more step in the story of a geniuses association: Ueno composing, Ohta writing, Hosono producing, and several guests as Makigami Koichi or Sato Ikuko among others performing vocals, all out of fashion and out of time, from the first notes to last details of graphic design, stuck by the kind of VIEW you'll never find in the neighborhood of amnesiac times.

Everything is already here, believe it, in 1983: Ueno's unique composition style in the strictest way, retro-synth orcherstrations, haunted piano grounds, demented children's choir and vocals, taking care never to fall into easy harmonies. It's no place for Guernica's charged orchestrations nor fast tempo, here we follow bright lines, Showa obsession staying in the borders, as tempo keeps a strange slow mystery.
With less military and more poetry, and while Togawa's chilling whispers, set aside for a while, will hurt us with extatic pleasure until the end of times, here another erotisicm of lost past times is allowed to emerge along these madly warm opiates songs.

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Avalaibility:
Awesome original vinyl sometimes appear on Yahoo auctions among various Ohta's related items.
Probably easier now to catch the Yen Box vol.1, and anyway to take part of the full story:

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