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The Appointed Cloud

by Yoshi Wada

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    Comes with a gatefold cardboard paper sleeve (two pockets), obi, a foldout insert. Original 1987 program notes, rare photos, new liner notes by Yoshi Wada, in English & Japanese. Shrink wrapped.

    TRACK:

    1. The Appointed Cloud (60:00) =Previously unreleased=

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    "The Appointed Cloud" 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.

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=This is a sample clip. The full version is only available on the CD version= 05:01

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2008 release. Final stock. This CD is the first-ever release of an extraordinary 1987 New York City performance. Recorded at the Great Hall of the New York Hall of Science, this majestic recording captures the 60-minute opening performance of Yoshi Wada's interactive sound installation "The Appointed Cloud", which consisted of a self-made 80-pipe organ, a pipe gong, sirens and a massive suspended metal sheet, all triggered by a computer program designed by David Rayna, who assisted La Monte Young in his electronic work and performances in 1980s. The CD also features Wada, Bob Drombowski and Wayne Hankin on bagpipes, plus Michael Pugliese, who ever worked with David Tudor for Merce Cunningham's dance company, on percussion.

Dramatically structured, shifting and intense, "The Appointed Cloud" features massive low frequencies and regal percussion vying with the ululations of bagpipes, all resounding in the huge reverberant space of the Great Hall with its 24-meter ceiling.

This CD, the second Yoshi Wada release as the joint production on EM Records and Omega Point (the first being the 2007 reissue of the 1982 “Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile”), is sure to delight all who enjoy drones, dynamics and drama.

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released July 25, 2022

"The Appointed Cloud"
Composition by Yoshi Wada
Performed and recorded at the Great Hall of the New York Hall of Science, New York on November 8, 1987
Duration: 60 minutes
Sound installation instruments: pipe organ, suspended metal
sheet, siren, pipe gong, etc provided by Yoshi Wada
Computer interface engineering and software: David Rayna
Bagpipes: Bob Dombrowski, Wayne Hankin, Yoshi Wada
Tympani and Tam Tam: Michael Pugliese

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