In this collaborative album, Japan's groundbreaking producer Hoppy Kamiyama teams up with world-renowned bassist and producer Bill Laswell. The result is a well-polished, bass driven mix that provides listeners with an accessible expression of the duo's avant-garde experiments in composition and sound.
The eclectic mix of styles and techniques displayed on A Navel City is a refreshing break from the acid-electronic-jazz hybrids currently dominating the market. Hoppy and Laswell break through barriers and expertly blend their talents to create a sound completely their own… a liquid blend of jazz, electronica, dub, plus a touch of improv to keep things interesting. Tying it all together is percussionist Kiyohiko Semba, who provides a sturdy, rhythmic undercurrent that seamlessly fuses Laswell's deep bass lines and Hoppy's signature synth soundscapes.
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A Navel City/No One Is There
Hoppy Kamiyama , and Bill Laswell Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B0002VEXYQ Release Date: 2004-09-28 |
Tracks:
- Azlo
- Todes Fuge
- Sospirando
- The Desert
- Zarathustra
- Sad Emission
- Parrot Fashions
Album Description
In this collaborative album, Japan's groundbreaking producer Hoppy Kamiyama teams up with world-renowned bassist and producer Bill Laswell. The result is a well-polished, bass driven mix that provides listeners with an accessible expression of the duo's avant-garde experiments in composition and sound.The eclectic mix of styles and techniques displayed on A Navel City is a refreshing break from the acid-electronic-jazz hybrids currently dominating the market. Hoppy and Laswell break through barriers and expertly blend their talents to create a sound completely their own… a liquid blend of jazz, electronica, dub, plus a touch of improv to keep things interesting. Tying it all together is percussionist Kiyohiko Semba, who provides a sturdy, rhythmic undercurrent that seamlessly fuses Laswell's deep bass lines and Hoppy's signature synth soundscapes.
Customer Reviews:
Land of the gods.......2004-09-29
This is the first album ive heard from Hoppy Kamiyama (digital president, Slide Geisha, Ass hole box& gram pot and Kiyohiko Semba ( drums, Percussion and electronic drums) I hope we all know laswell ( Bass-effects)
the 1st song Azlo starts with a very ambient structure then melts to a slow jazz dub feel mainly drum and bass are present with sparatic digital ambient sounds and bells. Some light horn work is also present as the jam cuts in and out from style to style and different time signatures. Song clocks in 6:17
2nd song Todes fuge is a bite ambient with light percussion, piano and laswell style bass very badawi style with intense piano fills. 4:09
3rd song Sospirando is an up beat jazz dub with very strong digital sounds and lots of drum filtering/processing.
the 4th song The Desert is the second best song on the album, starts out with a very tribal feel, flutes, ambience and tribal drum set and percussion with dub bass. The song progressivelly changes styles including a very Herbie Hancock 70 fussion psychodelic style with lots of filter minipulation and frequence delays, incredible. Best jazz song ive heard in a long time. Cuts in and out of the jazzy and tribal very badawi style kinda last samurai eastern japaneese style. song is 13:52
5th song Zarathusta is very tribal with crickets and strange electronic sounds with what i think is the geisha which turns to a suttle jazz then to progressivelly more jam bandy 6:10
6th song Sad emission is by far the best song on the album and the longest. Very eastern flutes, Tambura. Slow tribal jazz drums laswell dubinz then continues to the more reminicent structure jazzy latout which swirls into a long tabla and flute with digital delays. beautifle then continues to jamming. 16:19
7th song Parrot Fashions is very ambient with bells trasitional laswell electronic hums. The streets of navel city, your destination is greated with strings, monkeys and birds in a swell of psychopathic koas of beauty and truth.
All in all its a very different approach very jazzy with excellent dub style laswell bass. Some of the best drums around, awesome inegration of the sound structure not to much very light. Excellent tribal themes. Note Some of the jam band stuff sounds a lot like the Broken Vessels soundtrack progressive rock song but an entirelly different band.
This is one of the greats for laswell never to be forgotten for we should salute our president of navel city mr Kamiyama, Mr. Laswell head of foreign afairs, and Kiyohiko Semba head of landscape structure. I would love to live in navel city its always changing, theirs always psychonavigated rythems constantelly altering the landscape and perception. Plenty of island feel and room for all who will except their right of passage
fans of Bill Frisell, Medeski-martin-&wood,Jah Wobble, Herbie Hancocks 69-74 period, Miled Davis 69-74 era, John Zorn, Badawi, Pharoah Sanders, Equations of eternity (EOE).
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