TETSUO FURUDATE - ONE DAY AN OLD PHANTOM PASSED ABOVE MY HEAD

Format : CD
Edition : 500 copies
Release date : 11 August 2009
Cat# : LH10


Status: SOLD OUT


Track list :

1 One Day An Old Phantom Passed Above My Head (58:04)

(excerpt 1) [mp3]
(excerpt 2) [mp3]
(excerpt 3) [mp3]
(excerpt 4) [mp3]


First full lenght solo studio album since 2001 !
With this new recordings Tetsuo confirm himself as one of
the greatest Japanese noise artists of all times..

Numbered edition of 500 copies.

Review from Vitalweekly.net

TETSUO FURUDATE - ONE DAY AN OLD PHANTOM PASSED ABOVE MY HEAD
TETSUO FURUDATE - PIECES OF TETSUO FURUDATE

Its been a while since I last bumped, physically, into Tetsuo Furudate, but also a while since I last heard his music. Whatever I heard sounded good, but I also felt it was not my kind of music. What that is, I don't know. Furudate uses the sampler to create soundtrack like music. He uses percussion samples, guitar samples, orchestral stuff. Maybe I think its the occasional orchestral bombast and noise that put me off a bit. These two new releases re-aquint me with his music. I have no idea why one is released as a CD and one as a CDR. The CD lists five films ('Nostalgia' (Tarkovsky), 'Hamlet (Olivier), 'Singin' In The Rain' (Kelly), 'Orphee' (Cocteau) and 'Persona' (Bergman) from which he used sound samples to create this one hour work. Some of the bombast is indeed present here, but then I think its also kept to a minimum. I fail to see the relevance of mentioning the films as sources, but then it might also be that I never saw those films. By and large drones seem to prevail in this work, wether they are loud or quiet. Its hard to spot any link towards any film, but its a great work. Even the noise bit and the sampled orchestral percussive bits work fine here.

The other one is a collection of various bits and pieces and perhaps after one solid hour of Furudate, one might not actually want to play a second hour of his music, but this has six great pieces of sampled drones. 'Live In Koln' is the big noise blast which I didn't care much for, but the best pieces are 'Gottingen' which is gentle touch of processed ancient film music and 'Ode To Benito Mussolini' which takes the voice of Mussolini and marching music into the digital domain, and gets seriously fucked around over there. Much better than Louis Andriessen's 'Il Duce', but me keeps thinking: "what does Furudate mean with 'ode'?"

(FdW)



From Rockerilla issue 349 October / November 2009

Tetsuo Furudate - One day an old phantom passed above my head.

Vote 7/10

La scena rumorista nipponica è un pullulare di menti oblique pronte a colpire nell'ombra. Non fa certo eccezione Tetsuo Furudate, il gota della forma sperimentale asceso dagli inferi di un ignoto uditivo inesprimibile, teso a plasmare i percorsi delle sue esplorazioni allucinogeno/musicali come sculture power-noise dai sembianti mostruosi. Edito via Menstrual in contemporanea con "Pieces of T.F." (CDr in 103 copie che raccoglie frammenti live inediti), "One day an old phantom passed above my head" si disvela già nel titolo, un estremo atto d'esorcismo che mette in campo la strategia della tensione per dar corso ai suoi implacabili disegni reconditi, a base di formule elettroniche deflagranti e obliqui mantra notturni volti alla soluzione del rito: 58 minuti di terrore alle soglie del paranormale.

Aldo Chimenti