Sunday, November 28, 2010

JAPAN (#103)

Source here. Originally recorded on April 9th, 1998.

Part hyperbole, part hubris, part hysteria, part hagiography, part hectoring. I'm sort of torn between the bizarre thought that one could capture all of Japan in a 90 minute tape, and the uneasy suspicion that we captured none of it. This tape is full of interwoven words and music and samples and fiction of what other people think of when they think of Japan. Some of us got in there, too.
  1. Chipmunk Geisha
  2. Country music melodic lope loop
  3. Single String Final Battle
  4. I'm afraid we played the Vapors
  5. Garbage Percussion
  6. Mecha-Elvis has returned
  7. A Challenger Appears!
  8. Up From the Depths
  9. Pearls created by Swine
  10. The reluctant warrior awakes
  11. So, you think you can defeat me?
  12. A perception of no true value
  13. Return from whence you came
Added by IanF-R:We probably should have titled this show "Naïve Westerners' Japan: A Cultural Mis-mapping Odyssey".