It contained many
sides as minimal music,rock,techno,noise... But there is clearly the city scene
on each tunes. Ordinaly city life with many machine,neon lights,sleeping with
midnight T.V. There is the elementswith which a city emits.-D`artie Yossey-
This is the first one of those 4 "The worst of" series. Nobody knows it already released or not,but suddenly it came out in 1994. He mixed well the different elements to make the new one. "Try Try Try" gave the hope to a Japanese who works in the dry desert in Middle East.-Middle East Treasury Cameras Quest Squad Kyoken-
With very tasty primitive electronics,Lo-Fi rhythm loops ans a generous helping oftreverb-especially on the epic 23 minutes "Off Libya".-CMJ David Newgarden-
Possibly his weirdest: tracks have caterwauling, tiny Japanese
melodies, whistling, sawing effects, steel pan, fuzz noise though not all at
once. The most Boredoms-esque (early). Only 12 tracks.-Other Music RE-
Much
more psychedelic in that grinding, rhythmic, rough trancelike way, and has many
pretty moments within. Electronics are prominent, amidst long passages of 'tribal'
drumming, yet most vocals are fed through robot filters. Evan includes a fake
Inuit breathing game (looped?) and lots of rhythmic chaos.-Other Music RE-
Songs by the voice
which has no nationality,no age and no sex and music by the melodies perfectly
fit with rhythms. The sound melts and jumps but can't have the border of electronics
and acoustics. The combination of ethno and electronics which we often can listen
to his music is just trend of these days techno tribalism. But he recorded those
in early 80's. It's strong tribalism with lo-fi pop melody. The intense which
is far pure than physique tribalism digi-rock or death-metal has tells 21 century
music must be. -Music Life Takahiro Ishii-
The hardest to peg, but also the best at showing the artists' range. More covers
than usual: Bruce Springsteen, Tchaikovsky (as if performed on an out-of-control
carousel), more traditional melodies. One song for sonic disruption and whistling,
another for a pummeled acoustic guitar. Amidst more of the chanting with electronics
and feedback, there's more pop -- it's warmer, a little more fun. -Other Music
RE-
Yximalloo makes music
with small samplers,small synths and drum machines. It`s anarchistic pop/electironics
and with this C.D. make up for all the mistakes that the Residents have made
after they started working with the emulator. I like this stuff. It`s revoltingly
daring,charenging,the pop music adict as well as the electoronic music lover.
The 33 songs are all of a simple structure,but very very much among themselves.
Many of them are idiotic poppy tunes with dreamy voices and digital noise. Others
are noise sample,and have a layered structure. Aithough the music sometimes
willingly crosses the borders of "good taste". I think the CD fits perfectly
in the collection of music lover with a sense of humor.-Vital Los Smolders-
Boppy electronics, a lot using on traditional Eastern (Asian) themes: from
Indonesian to Chinese and Japanese. A Residents-ish sound with plodding electronics,
too -- but probably just because he's using the same kind of synthesizer they
did. This release is a little darker; amidst tape-speed experiments there are
tolling bells and synth murmurs.-Other Music RE-
Recorded
in 1982 and unaccountably never before released, these melting-hot (and warble-o-phonic)
live tapes of Naofumi Ishimaru's prolific band present a different account of
them than we've heard before, or rather several different accounts. The first
few tracks, with Hiroshi Kiyono playing bass, are Yximalloo as polyrhythmic
funk experimentalists-imagine an instrumental mix of Talking Heads' Remain In
Right as heard by a drowning man. The instrumentation includes on-the-one chicken-scratch
guitar, "Prevue Guide" synths, and any number of little percussive devices.
Then the lineup changes drastically and things get really weird: a few tracks
are less about the notes being played than the textures of blown-out amps and
way-overmodulated microphones, and the album ends with "O'Rhythm #14", a peppery
17-minute percussion extravaganza. The other tracks mostly explore and mutate
a specific groove, though they're anywhere from 20 seconds to 10 minutes long:
some echo the piece immediately before them, some switch recording textures
part-way through or segue into the next piece mid-groove. Naofumi can be heard
yelping excitedly throughout, though he's far in the background, buried by the
floor-shaking rhythms, like Damo Suzuki on Can's "Halleluwah"- an obvious influence,
particulaly on "Sai."-CMJ #491-
Where Yximalloo get funky! Twelve longer tracks performed by a
band that gathers up to eight players. Flailing rhythms, horrible recording
sound (fuzzed out), with a splendid flippant funkiness that slops all over.
Some disco rhythms, yowling. This is the one that should be put on vinyl for
DJs for that "what the hell" effect. Nonetheless slapdash, with the jumpy bass
the only glue for part of it. "Live" totally falls apart near the end, with
an endless crashy percussion track seemingly performed just on garbage cans.
Recorded in 1982.-Other Music RE-
He covers "Honky
Tonk Women" by Tahitian arrange. It`s beautiful acoustic tune which you can
listen on HALF ALIEN too.-D`artie yossey-
The latest oddball CD from the demented Yximalloo. With strange singing and chanting. Cheap keyboards,pot and pan percussions,a Rolling Stones cover,peculiar doowap-"Try Try Try #31"-,a ukulele campfire sing along-"Summer Camp For The Overweight Children"-and 23 more.-CMJ David Newgarden-
The goofiest, a wobbly gift of Polynesian melodies mixed with a few Caribbean ones. Vocals on nearly every track, set in swinging, jaunty rhythms. His corrupted version of "the blues" seeps into a few songs, and the songs cohere within the assorted weirdnesses (ululating the volume, slapping noises, wind, chanting). Covers 'Honky Tonk Women" (sic). It's his most lighthearted work, every track is like a game. -Other Music RE-
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I`m always thinking
he came out too early. There are techno,ethno and space languages. But don`t
mistake. The ensemble of non-genre melody can make us enough to feel his certain
sence against Top 40. Nobody couldn`t understand Yximalloo in 1984. Absolutely
independent from everythings. He totally thinks far different and belongs to
the 7tyh senses. It`s great tribalism. We know there is one more person in this
world. Sun Ra.-Fool's mate #196 Takahiro Ishii-
Recorded in 1984. Clearer than most of his discs, also more solemn.
Electronic ruminations as if recorded as background music for nameless temple
rituals -- some traditional Japanese instruments and flute, too. A lot of song
titles have war themes. Definitely his calmest release. And includes a cover
of one of the most famous Japanese songs, 'Kimigayo'.-Other Music RE-
There are 75 tracks
on this CD,so if one isn't particularly to your liking,don't worry. It's over
before you know it. Both Jad Fair and Naofumi Ishimaru have created a string
of short tracks, which skate through various degrees of sound and shapes. Some
are primitive, other childish, then some sonic and then on to other realms.
A real treasure this is, like short entries in a found diary.-ND #17-
This is the shocking one which is the first collaboration with Jad Fair. There are a lot of analog devices and also Japanese folksongs as if Current 93 plays English trads with the vocal of Rose of Strawberry Switch Blades. The campfire songs of 90's must be. It's experimental ans avant garde,but east to listen to.-D'artie Yossey-
Recorded several years ago and finally released earlier this year is HALF ROBOT. Multi tracking crazy electronic sounds and any instruments they can find around the house,the duo joyfully runs through short humorous readind of poetry by Ernest Noyes Brookings,Japanese folk tunes and even "Blue Suede Shoes". 75 tunes total!-CMJ David Newgarden-
This is the one
is far from other Yximalloo's CDs. The unique and great works. It's Hawaiian,mondo
and folky. I hope to be released so soon to be listend by many people as possible.-D'artie
Yossey-
The collaboration between Half Japanese's Jad Fair and Yximalloo's Ishimaru
contains forty tracks. With Nao doing the music, Jad is freed to provide rhythmically
spoken 'songs' in his jauntily nasal voice. Less songs than spoken pieces set
to jazzy backgrounds that escalate into noise. There's no rock here, instead,
text-based exercises with music that bashes and twinkles along. They later collaborated
again on the album "Half Robot" (which we still carry) that came out domestically.-Other
Music RE-