C.C.C.C.

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Recorded live at Maya in Kobe on 15 September 1991 - with only Mayuko Hino on electronics and voice and Hiroshi Hasegawa on synthesizer and electronics - Reflexive Universe strips C.C.C.C. to its core and finds, in that reduction, something more concentrated and more volatile than the full ensemble.

The choice of John C. Lilly's CCCC as a name pointed toward a practice in which sound was genuinely conceived as a system of feedback between the body, technology, and the cosmos - Hino's voice dissolving into electronics and returning transformed, Hasegawa's synthesizer generating fields that shift and breathe and fold back on themselves. On this Vanilla Records cassette, the two members achieve a focused intensity: immersive noise ambiances and captured sonic fragments manipulated and infiltrated by electronic pulses, building toward an ecstatic sonic environment that drowns the ear in sheets of detail. The original tape features one long live performance; the vinyl reissue on Urashima adds an additional recording from Donzoko House in Kyoto with all four members. This is the original cassette. Vanilla Records, Vanilla Records-17.