Track Listing 1. Red Buddah 2. As Expanding As
| Details | | Distributor: | Welk | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes A percussive tour de force, RED BUDDHA is as unlikely a record to be found on Vanguard (traditionally renowned as a jazz label) as possible. Stomu Yamash'ta was still toying with the synthesizers heard on SEA AND SKY. Here, he's a one-man rhythm machine, using delicate electronic processing and the vocabularies of multi-tracking and musique concrFte to construct two large-scale percussive blow-fests. "Red Buddha" is an astounding feast of hand-swept drums, iron plates, studio-enhanced will-o-the-wisps, arcane noisemakers, and various other devices. This dense tribal stew conjures up the heartbeats of Far Eastern gods. "As Expanding As" begins as a mini-symphony of steel drums arising out of ether and joined by mingling chop blocks that begin to excite the atoms in the surrounding soundfield. The listener is eventually caught up in a maelstrom of objects struck, bent, attacked, hissed, and left adrift in the prickly underbrush of sound. At least ten years ahead of its time on release, RED BUDDHA deserves its forward-thinking reputation.
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