Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Chatham played the Long String

Chatham played the Long String Drone -- a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings

the alluring and disconcerting world of The Vestige is entirely its own

mangelsdorff

the harmonic foundation drops out from under the piece while two more voices join

Conversational vocals only hint at a melody

Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Chatham played the Long String"Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985. To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Japanoise was both made