releases :: Lost In Weirdness

Sat, 29/08/2009

by: Japanese Gum

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Welcome to Japanese Gum on Chew-Z !
JG came from a town (Genova) that is one of the most beautiful in Italy (from our point of view) and that spreads a lot of interesting underground music. We’ve been impressed by their shoegazing sound; we’ve shared emotions and some live experiences and we’ve liked their e.p. on Marsiglia Records: “Talking.Silently e.p.”, so we started thinking on a remixed edition and here you are the results… The original delicate guitar drones has been forced under the pressure of the beats and rhythms by the hands of some other musicians (Arbdesastr, Die Stadt Der Romantisch Punks, Eniac, Grausamerg Eisenberg, Isan and Japanese Gum…); the reinterpretation has turned the songs in an alterated state: dreamy, coloured and onyric.

Lost In Weirdness is available in free download but also in a digipack cd audio edition on sales trough our shop.

Notes (by the Band) :

Tracklist :
1.Intro - Africanized by Die Stadt Der Romantisch Punks
2.After All, A Grey Collapse - Japanese Gum (recorded in spring 08, mixed in winter 08)
3.Sunday, 1:00 pm - Japanese Gum – spoken word by Enrico Bosio (recorded between 06 / 09, mixed in April 09)
4.Could The English Rain (wash it away?) - Remixed by Arbdesastr
5.The Undertaker’s Tombstone - The Undertaker’s Tombstoned – dubbed by Grausamerg Eisenberg
6.Declaration Of A Permanent Absence Of Will - dueling drum machines remix by Isan
7.Could The English Rain (wash it away) ? - Remixed by Eniac
8.Cluster Of Bees (early version) - Japanese Gum (recorded and mixed in March 07)
9.And Talk Silently - alt version by Japanese Gum – vocals by Stark Vision Of The Morning, flute by Greta Liscio
10.Gonna Look In The Backroom - Japanese Gum (recorded and mixed in January 08)

This album is composed by five remixes from our “Talking.Silently e.p.” realized by some of our friends between September 08 and May 09, one alt-version we have made with featurings, and four tracks performed by us, one really brand new, a couple old ideas refreshed into new shapes and one, a demo-early version.
We decided to put in this album all stuff loved by us, with no conceptual bases but the idea of two different extended playing, that we thought could be better and surely comfortable as well played in the same record.

Mastered by Martino Sarolli and Emilio Pozzolini at the Butchery, June 2009.

Big big special thanks to Fabio (Eniac) Battistetti and everyone at Chew-Z who had the patience to wait for us for really such long time!
Then, really thanks to all the beautiful people who put their hands/mids/souls in our tracks and remixed so well: Jukka Reverberi, Simona Barbera, Greta Liscio, Fabio Battistetti again, Antony Ryan and Robin Saville, Enrico Bosio, Paolo Campagnola.

Hello hello to our families and friends, cheers.

d. & p.

reviews

musicaoltranza

Sia Chew-Z che Japanese Gum sono nomi tanto noti quanto ostici, ma che ci piacciono tanto e, devo dire, che dopo questo lavoro ci piacciono ancora di più.

Rinnomata per la qualità e la “diversità” delle proprie produzioni, la net label torinese “arruola” per questa quattordicesima produzione i due genovesi e la loro miscela di post-rock, glitch ed indietronica dal taglio malinconico, che dsin alle prime produzioni su Marsiglia Records ha reso sempre più celebre il nome Japanese Gum.

Alti e bassi, melodie e distorsioni, cicli claustrofobici ed attimi più pacati e rilassanti … un album emotivamente coinvolgente, che ti trascina dietro di se accompagnandoti sempre più in basso, per riportarti in superficie solo nelle battute finali. Forse il miglior lavoro del duo in questione.

musicaoltranza

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Japanese Gum

Japanese Gum

Japanese Gum is an experimental Italian duo originally from Genova born in the spring of 2005.
The band consists now of Davide Cedolin and Paolo Tortora. During first two years of activity, there was a third member, Luigi Bozzo, that now is only a collaborator.
JG music is characterized by wall of delayed guitars, soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and synth pads, but it’s not right to define their sound into a specific kind: the guys are always looking for new developments and different sound solutions: from the first release “Talking. Silently e.p.”, focused on an ambient-glitch type of soundscapes, to “Without you I’m napping”, more oriented to massive shoegazing guitars melted with psychedelic obsessive loops and first real percussions ever.
During the sessions for the first full-lenght, Japanese Gum put some unreleased tracks/versions together with few friends’ remixes into “Lost In Weirdness” (remixes by Isan, Die Stadt Der Romantiche Punks, Eniac…).
The new album “Hey Folks! Nevermind, We Are All Falling Down” will be released in september 2009 by Friend Of Mine records (Japan), and it’s a perfect balanced combo of liquid atmosphere, droning guitars, suspended vocals, electronic patterns and real drums.

Paolo Tortora: laptop, synth, guitar, melodica.
Davide Cedolin: guitars, synth, vocals.

http://www.japanesegum.net/

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