January 08, 2007
In Japan: Rewinding the Sounds of Boredoms
On this trip to Japan, we loaded up our Apple iPod with MP3s from some old albums by Boredoms, the quintessential Osaka noise group and probably the one that is the best known outside Japan. "Chocolate Synthesizer," from way back in 1994 is our favorite of that era, with 1992's "Pop Tatari" a close second. We are also revisiting the albums "Super Roots 6" and "Super Ae." But like the group, our tastes and sonic interests have shifted over the years, and it is Boredoms' sparser, less spasmodic output of subseuqent years, such as "Vision Creation New Sun" (2000) and "Seadrum / House of Sun" (2005), that has captivated out attention. Last year, music critic Sasha Frere-Jones wrote an excellent profile of the band in the New Yorker magazine.
Posted by Supercore at January 8, 2007 03:06 AM
