Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara
The so-called “Jon Hassell of Japan” is in the spotlight for a sublime immersion in his new age, cyber-occult technoscapes recorded 1991-1996 and inspired by pseudo ethnomusicology, LSD and new technologies of the ‘90s - RIYL Haruomi Hosono, Visible Cloaks, Spencer Clark, early Terre Thaemlitz
‘Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara’ casts a net over the golden early-mid ‘90s era of richly sensual, imaginative work by a multi-media visionary whose oeuvre is little known beyond the domestic Japanese market. Between 1991-1995, Kawahara issued more than a dozen solo albums, most often on the Green Energy label, and all speaking to a rising sense of techngnostic new age consciousness than had emerged in previous decades and was MIDI crystallised in the ‘90s, when artists such as Kawahara favoured CD for its fidelity.
This set represents his first excursion on vinyl and download formats, introducing the world at large to his bucolic and buoyant brand of sampled location recordings with original FM synthesis and keys designed to transport listeners to parallel, uchronic worlds where folk tradition encounters new digital worlds, sometimes stimulating the ear’s neurogenous zones, as in ‘Primitive Love (Genshi no ai)(Delayed Version)’, or evoking lysergic hallucination in ‘Sound LSD #.SS05/7.83HZ (Radio Mix)’, and adjunct Terre Thaemlitz’s earliest ambient works in the elegance of ‘電子ニューロン回路の舞踏 (Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits) (Third Mix).’
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The so-called “Jon Hassell of Japan” is in the spotlight for a sublime immersion in his new age, cyber-occult technoscapes recorded 1991-1996 and inspired by pseudo ethnomusicology, LSD and new technologies of the ‘90s - RIYL Haruomi Hosono, Visible Cloaks, Spencer Clark, early Terre Thaemlitz
‘Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara’ casts a net over the golden early-mid ‘90s era of richly sensual, imaginative work by a multi-media visionary whose oeuvre is little known beyond the domestic Japanese market. Between 1991-1995, Kawahara issued more than a dozen solo albums, most often on the Green Energy label, and all speaking to a rising sense of techngnostic new age consciousness than had emerged in previous decades and was MIDI crystallised in the ‘90s, when artists such as Kawahara favoured CD for its fidelity.
This set represents his first excursion on vinyl and download formats, introducing the world at large to his bucolic and buoyant brand of sampled location recordings with original FM synthesis and keys designed to transport listeners to parallel, uchronic worlds where folk tradition encounters new digital worlds, sometimes stimulating the ear’s neurogenous zones, as in ‘Primitive Love (Genshi no ai)(Delayed Version)’, or evoking lysergic hallucination in ‘Sound LSD #.SS05/7.83HZ (Radio Mix)’, and adjunct Terre Thaemlitz’s earliest ambient works in the elegance of ‘電子ニューロン回路の舞踏 (Dance of Electronic Neuron Circuits) (Third Mix).’