Dislocation

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Nagoya produced a noise and improvisation scene that ran largely parallel to the Osaka-Tokyo axis - less documented, less exported, but no less intense. Dislocation was one of its legendary formations, a collective comprising Toyohiro Okazaki, Yoshimei Yanagawa, Keishi Kiyokawa, Fujio Kimura, and others, whose name appeared alongside Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Masonna, Monde Bruits, Solmania, Incapacitants, and Violent Onsen Geisha on the essential Noise Forest compilation - the anthology that mapped the breadth and density of Japanese noise at its most fertile.

Refugee / On The Move, released on Vanilla Records in 1991, is one of the very few documents from a group that kept its distance from the self-promotional machinery of even the underground. The title's sense of displacement and transit is not incidental - Dislocation operated as a genuinely peripheral force, its energies directed inward and outward simultaneously, its music capturing the specific restlessness of noise improvisation in a city that was neither Tokyo nor Osaka but something harder to place. Original, single-sided, numbered cassette. Vanilla Records, Vanilla-12.