Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Recorded by Yonju Miyaoka

Recorded by Yonju Miyaoka

Chatham played the Long String Drone -- a 6-foot long strip of wood with bass strings

RCA Victrola

Gerry Mulligan

The incredible breadth of Curran’s output makes it pretty unlikely that a listener familiar with his work would be surprised to find it branching out in a new direction

Various – 地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ (Jirai wo Fundara Sayounara) [CS] Contemporary / Classical / Modern Composition Recorded by Yonju Miyaoka"Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara translating, with characteristic Japanoise black humor, as something close to "Goodbye if you step on a landmine" is one of the essential compilation documents from the Vanilla Records catalog, gathering the label's core artists into a single tape and offering a compressed portrait of the underground it had quietly built since 1985. To understand the Vanilla Records compilations is to understand how Japanoise was both made