elsie and jack are proud to present the second solo cd from tabata mitsuru / founding member of the Boredoms, guitarist in Zeni Geva and now bassist/vocalist in Acid Mothers Temple among others
Tabata has once again sprinkled his own brand of moondust all over these recordings. Heavily influenced by memories of Ultraman, this is a trip inside the speeding mind of a 70’s child.
Not that this is an exercise in charming nostalgia! Tabata strikes a delicate balance between instrumental technique + raw sound manipulation to exorcise the sounds of his past.
Early one morning he went on a journey – first stop Cambridge railway station, where he got out, turned left, then left again along Cherry Hinton Road. After walking for 10 minutes, he had arrived – St. Margaret’s Square. Here, he met a beautiful man, lost in his private thoughts – they shared a spicy breakfast, and then parted, both trying to find No Man's Land.
While decoding dischordant sounds from his youth via other-worldly static + scree, brave new worlds open with each track. One can only wonder at what Joe Meek would have thought of these sounds!
From his childhood days in a Kyoto sweetshop, revelling in the zap-pow of cartoon escapism to the discovery of 60’s beat groups (waddya mean you can’t hear the snap of the snare???!!!), his own musical adventure is vast. Sludgerock, psychfreakout + noise, this aural melting pot all works its way into and out of Tabata’s psf imagination and onto this disc.
