Off The Wall, by Yoshi Wada

Off The Wall

by Yoshi Wada

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First vinyl reissue of composer and Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada's second album, Off The Wall, originally released in 1985 by famed free jazz label FMP. Recorded in Berlin on May 11 and 12, 1984, by a quartet featuring Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ (hand-built by Wada), and Andreas Schmidt Neri on percussion. Edition of 750. Mastered by Rashad Becker and housed in old-style gatefold jackets printed by Stoughton.

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	1.	Off The Wall I 20:26
	2.	Off The Wall II 19:58

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"Off The Wall belongs somewhere between the exuberant harmolodic ritual of Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head, a damp, medieval dirge and the inner ear soundings of composer Maryanne Amacher." —David Keenan, The Wire

"It may be more accurate to think of Wada as a sculptor than as a composer, because his music seems to be a physical reality, like wood or stone, and also because of the way he treats this material. Most composers work with ideas. Their basic interest is in melodies, harmonies, thematic relationships, tone rows, tonal centers, emotional qualities, and other rather abstract things, all of which can then be conveyed in sound, but none of which really are sound. Wada, on the other hand, works directly with the sound itself. His music would sound silly arranged for church organ for example. And if he prefers to preserve some improvisatory freedom rather than to notate specific musical ideas, this is at least partly because he is not so interested in the kinds of musical ideas that can be written down on paper. He wants to maintain direct contact with the physical reality of the sound." —Tom Johnson (from the original liner notes)

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released May 20, 2016

Composed by Yoshi Wada
Yoshi Wada and Wayne Hankin, bagpipes
Marilyn Bogerd, adapted organ
Andreas Schmidt Neri, percussion
Recorded and produced by Jost Gebers
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Photography by Marilyn Bogerd
Originally released in 1985 by Free Music Production (SAJ-49)

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Yoshi Wada New York, New York

Yoshi Wada (b. 1943, Kyoto, Japan–d. 2021, New York) was a composer and artist associated with the downtown New York, experimental arts scene of the last fifty years, including Minimalist music and the Fluxus art movement. In the early 1970s, Wada began building homemade musical instruments and writing compositions for them based on his personal research in timbre, resonance, and improvisation. ... more

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