Traditional instruments and music – twisted by composers, improvisers, rockers, synthesists, industrial and electronic musicians. 47-minute program with works by Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Don Cherry, Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band, Sun City Girls, and more, realized between 1967 and 1994.
Featured cover art: 23 Skidoo – Urban Gamelan
23 Skidoo – Misr Wakening
gentle experimental percussion work, rooted in gamelan traditions (1984, Illuminated Records)
Futuro Antico – Sinikorò Kumà
cross culture project from Milan proposing ethno-electronic music (1980, Casal Gajardo Records)
Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Razm
composition with computer sounds and Persian lute, brought together at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (1985, Folkways Records)
Harry Hosono and The Yellow Magic Band – Shambhala Signal
exploring tropical grounds with synthesizers (1978, Alfa)
The 13th Tribe – Dream Hunters
ritualistic textures by an international orchestra of cross cultural musicians (1992, Review Records)
Max Eastley & David Toop – Buried Dreams
merging field recordings, samples and FX into a subtle, blurry soundscape (1994, Beyond)
The United States of America – Osamu’s Birthday
experimental rock band from Los Angeles approaching Japanese grounds (1967, Sundazed Music)
Sun City Girls – Kickin’ the Dragon
hallucinatory Far Eastern-inspired pseudo folk (1994, Abduction)
Butthole Surfers – Kuntz
processing a Luk Thung track, found on a tape from Thailand (1987, Touch & Go)
Don Cherry – Flute Song
intimate ceremony connecting East and West, recorded for Italian tv station RAI (1976, Black Sweat Records)
* three of the ten tracks are not listed in the Spotify database