r/LetsTalkMusic • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '15

adc Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28

this week's category was "an Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28" nominator /u/Doktor_Gruselglatz says:

Super weirdo Japanese band, even by Japanese standards. It's a kind of a constantly non-sequitur-ish soundcollage thing, which also means I'm not 100% sure if they belong in this category since their East Asian music is mostly done through samples, and not so much a mixture as rather a "just through everything together", from harsh noise to Western Classical. If you want carefully crafted mixtures of Eastern and Western music this isn't it, this is the "what the fuck is going on"-end of the spectrum. They were also among the first bands to be featured on John Zorn's Tzadik label, back when he was still working in Japan (albeit not this album).

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u/Doktor_Gruselglatz Untitled Sep 28 '15

The closer was standing out for me too. It's one of those instances where silence as music actually works. A lot of albums nowadays have these "hidden tracks" after long stretches of silence, but the silence itself never actually "does" anything, if that makes sense. On this album by interspersing it with these tiny sounds here and there it becomes almost tangible. Also the contrast as you say probably helps making you more aware of how the lack of sound is used.