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Off The Wall

by Yoshi Wada

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    Comes with a triple foldout cardboard paper sleeve, obi, a foldout insert. Original 1985 liner notes by Tom Johnson. English & Japanese. Shrink wrapped.

    TRACKS:
    1. Off The Wall I (20:27)
    2. Off The Wall II (20:02)
    Bonus track
    3. Die Konsonanten Pfeifen (27:23)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Off The Wall via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      ¥2,300 JPY or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    "Off The Wall" CD x 1 copy with one special leaflet.

    The leaflet was originally published for the Yoshi Wada tribute concert "Interdiffusion" held in Japan in December 2021 and distributed only at the venue.

    Contents of the leaflet:
    24-page booklet with contributions from composer Koshiro Hino, FUJIIIIIIIIIIITA, and others involved; "Yoshi Wada Story" booklet (24 pages, written by Koki Emura of EM Records); fold-out concert poster (60 x 42 cm). The leaflet is gatefold with one pocket, 31 x 22 cm. All in English.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Off The Wall via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      ¥3,500 JPY or more 

     

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2008 release. Final stock. The long-awaited and reissue of Wada's 1985 LP "Off The Wall", recorded in Berlin and originally released on the esteemed FMP label. A minimalist yet majestic monsterpiece ("massive", as Tom Johnson declares in his perceptive liner notes), "Off The Wall" features Wada and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, Marilyn Bogerd on adapted organ, and percussionist Andreas Schmidt-Neri.

The original album consisted of two side-long pieces recorded on successive days by Jost Geber, who captured the power and dynamics of the quartet without losing the meditative delicacy of the bagpipes and the intricacy of their interplay with the homemade organ (constructed by Wada), resulting in a slowly evolving mosaic of combination tones and overtones. Simultaneously static yet changing, rooted and ethereal, homespun and alien, ancient and very modern, the music is created entirely with acoustic instruments but has "electronic" textures at times, yet is very warm and human, always pulsing, shifting and mutating.

EM Records/Omega Point is pleased indeed to release "Off The Wall" for the first time ever on CD, with the bonus track "Die Konsonanten Pfeifen (The Consonant Pipes)", a slightly earlier recording with Wada and Hankin on bagpipes and Kevin Newhoff on percussion, originally released as a cassette.

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released July 25, 2022

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EM Records Osaka Prefecture, Japan

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