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John Cage Shock Vol. 2

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Tribute to the John Cage centenary and the 50th anniversary for his first Japan tour.

In October 1962 John Cage and his great interpreter/co-visionary David Tudor visited Japan, performing seven concerts and exposing listeners to new musical worlds. This legendary "John Cage Shock", as it was dubbed by the critic Hidekazu Yoshida, is the source of this series of releases, three CDs and a "best hits" double LP compilation. Recorded primarily at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo on October 24, 1962 (with two performances from October 17 at Mido-Kaikan in Osaka), all recordings in this series are previously unreleased. A major historical trove, unearthed.

The performances on this tour featured Cage and Tudor with some noteworthy Japanese musicians playing pieces by Cage and a number of other composers. Volume 2 lifts off with a fiery example of Tudor's piano virtuosity, his mastery of dynamics well evident in a performance of "Klavierstück X" (1961) by Karlheinz Stockhausen. The titular shock of this series is delivered even more forcefully with the next piece, Cage's "Aria and Solo for Piano with Fontana Mix" (1957-58/62), which was first performed the year before in Darmstadt by Tudor and Kobayashi, a combination of two of Cage's solo pieces. The performance here, from Osaka, has a slightly altered title and the composition becomes a seismic quartet with the addition of Toshi Ichiyanagi and Yoko Ono, with the four performers providing acutely-angled blasts of sound.

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released June 17, 2018

ジョン・ケージ生誕100年/初来日(1962)50周年記念企画。門外不出で封印されていたケージ幻の初来日ツアーの音源を白日の下にさらすシリーズ第2作。

ケージ本人やデヴィッド・チュードアが繰り出す爆撃のようなノイズの「Variations II」、日常的な行為を音楽として提示する「0分00秒」の世界初演、そして小野洋子が爆音の中で咆哮する「26分55.988秒」……彼らが本国やヨーロッパでさえ無理解の嵐に打ちひしがれながらも、真の前衛精神で創造しつづけた驚愕の音が、まだ実験音楽の芽もない日本でいきなりブチまけられたのだ。いわく「ジョン・ケージ・ショック」。

CD店の棚の一角を占めるほど並ぶケージのディスク群に、このような作品は見あたらない。国内外を問わず、これら劇薬作品は作曲当時以外にはほとんどリリースされていないからで、ケージの容赦ないハードコアな側面を知ろうとしてもムリなのだ。しかし今からでも遅くはない。この「本当の衝撃」を即刻体験せよ!

=John Cage Shock Vol. 2=

ピアノからグリッサンド、クラスターなどが、指、拳、手首、腕、肘などを動員して生み出される1曲目「Klavierstück X 」の、デヴィッド・チュードアの凄絶な演奏に注目!そして2曲目「Aria and Solo for Piano with Fontana Mix」は一柳、チュードアらが繰り出す爆音のような激烈な音とともに、小野洋子が放つ奇声や咆哮が衝撃的!

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