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Sketches of Pain

by Awkward Geisha / Reiko.A + Rohco

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Awkward Geisha - Foolish Mistakes 26:16
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Reiko.A + Rohco - Live at 4th (Koenji Tokyo) 27:22

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Reiko.A is a writer and a performing artist. She joined Merzbow live unit regularly from 1989 to 1999 performing on electronics and voice and has been abroad widely on it. Now she performs solo on voice and theremin mainly, as well as collaborating with Astro and other artists. Reiko A also plays with Sumihisa Arima in the band Venus In Virgo.
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Rohco is a Japanese noise musician. She has been a member of C.C.C.C., Metropolis, SHROUD OF VAPOUR and is currently a member of Astro.

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“First, there is Awkward Geisha, which is the musical project of Ade Rowe. Originally a band, now a solo project. There is some guitar playing, xylophone, saxophone abuse, and mumbling, all of which are not really connected or connecting in a way. Should we say this is improvised music? You could call it that, but with the sounds being looped, there is also some kind of planning going, I think. It is the looped character of the sounds that, for me, in the end, made this quite tiring sit through. It all seemed too random put together and not in a way that I found very exciting. Reiko.A is a name I hadn't heard in a long time. She was part of Merzbow with Masami Akita, when they first toured Europe in 1989. I didn't know she was still active in music. Rohco is a member of Astro, the duo (since 2013) that Hiroko Hasegawa (a.k.a. Rohco) started in 1993 as a solo project. Their piece is a live recording and consists mainly of starts and
stops, sighing and singing into a microphone, carefully not to let it go to feedback. It is quite interesting that this tightrope walking act between noise and silence. I enjoyed the intensity of the music here, which offers an aspect of noise music that you don't hear that often. Noise with the absence of noise, if that makes any sense.”
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released January 31, 2018

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Awkward Geisha is a musical project created in 2016 by British musician, artist and author Ade Rowe.
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