Omoide Hatoba "Vuoy" CD (1997) Boredoms

Description: Here we have a coldcock stunner of a CD, guaranteed to boggle the already scrambled minds of Boredoms fanatics, courtesy of Far East madmen OMOIDE HATOBA: Vuoy, their seventh album, a Japanese import released in 1997 by the Polystar label, now long out of print. Omoide Hatoba is a now-defunct side project of Boreguitarist Seiichi Yamamoto, a hyperbizarre squiggle of nutso mayhem that will spin your head like a small gear in a big machine. While a certain amount Boredoms-style madness can be heard throughout this disc, Omoide Hatoba does differ from the mother group in significant ways. Their music is more eclectic, for one thing – Yamamoto and company dip into a weird and wacky bag of styles here, throwing misshapen chunks of demented alt-pop, art-damaged prog-rock, laughing gas house, swaggering space funk, Residents-like surf and drug-bent jazz fusion into the individual cuts… and plenty of what-the-hell-was-that throughout the entire disc. (Read DamoXt7942's review below for the Japanese perspective.) Vuoy has more of a pop feel than Omoide Hatoba usually flaunts, with actual hooks on about half these tracks, though there's still far too much eccentricity for any chance at mainstream success. Fans of Flaming Lips, Beck, Ween, Mercury Rev and Elephant 6 artists in general will get a kick out of this awesome CD. Unfortunately, Vuoy has been out of print for at least twenty years, with no reissue imminent (or expected). The disc is sealed and mint. Track listing 1. Spilits (0:11) 2. Delayed Sky (3:39) 3. Mirage (4:02) 4. Vuoy (3:09) 5. Kokoro (3:15) 6. Rotary (3:45) 7. Maitreya (5:22) 8. Full Circle (3:00) 9. Fuzzy Killer (3:00) 10. Corn (3:21) 11. Haris (2:18) 12. Do the Future (5:35) 13. Sugar Clip (2:46) 14. No Title (6:18) 15. Figaro (5:16) Just like an 'enjoyable' junk box this album is. Various 'gracious' and 'trashy' sounds are here - produced by two talented (but strange) players. From the beginning what a noisy hoot "Spilits" is! Only eleven-second noise can open the curtain of the Vuoy stage. Following that, electronic goo-goo sounds and Seiichi's loud and echoic guitar solo take us into vacant "Delayed Sky." Some rubbishy noises are comfortable rather than annoying, so mysteriously - this should be their eccentric power. (Indeed everyone says both Seiichi and Atsushi are seriously strange.) Scenes are frequently altered - heavy and danceable beats with nonsense electro-noises can let us palpitate aggressively in "Mirage." Such a minimal electronika tastes Kraut-ish. "Vuoy" is one of masterpieces in this work, with thick musical aura and aurora. A sharp-edged violin solo is very spicy, and Seiichi's voices like spelling are very weird and hypnotic. Also as for "Sugar Clip," another masterpiece and simultaneously the most poppy song in this album, we cannot understand what they are singing, but the obscure spelling with tricky scattered sound-dusts can kick us into Vuoychedelia. (By the way Seiichi's crazy appearance on the video clip of "Sugar Clip" is very laughable for watchers UNDOUBTEDLY!) Another salient characteristic I want to mention about is, they use various trashy stuffs for serious instruments and with these they can shoot various delightful sounds and noises in front of listeners. On the contrary, in the sixth track "Rotary" or the last one "Figaro" are only electronic percussive punches (and some overtones). Let me say, basically their musical attitude and movement could be taken over to Atsushi's next project Seikazoku, where the members can play more flexible and less unitedly than in Omoide Hatoba. Emphasize there's no work or product for us to enjoy such a dramatic sound variation - what an attractive junk box! ~ DamoXt7942

Price: 10 USD

Location: Brentwood, California

End Time: 2025-01-04T05:22:30.000Z

Shipping Cost: 15 USD