Nobuo Yamada

Edition of 300. An incredible collaboration of East & West noise. This is a one sided clear LP, which come with hand painted insert by Rupenus and a full color transparency photo by Nobuo Yamada

Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beautiful cassette. Here, Nobuo managed to create a very interesting soundscape, probably improvising with various materials. A very charming work, of a quite acousmatic work that will got your attention.

Side A: 20% heavily armed with random discharges of radio-wave theatre and metal noise. Multiple blows with a heavy hatchet along the time axis, but no blood flows. From the speakers, the right and left wing exchange blows but reconciliation remains eternally unreachable. Steeped in idle repetition in a comfortably heated secret chamber. With several random passers-by, sounds like those made by slapping a wet towel alternate between life and death but in a continual state of existence. However, …

latest album by Nobuo Yamada, two tracks come with deserted metal junks by dragging lots of empty cans. track-1 is organic and isolated time passing at underground mining ruin. its metal junks are mixed with environmental ambience at the place purely by chance. track-2 is catching a raw and cold field recorded at a tunnel, unexpected joints of car and road, winds or so on. comes with handmade sleeve, a crushed can is pasted on front cover.                                                         …