[IA.003] Kumiko0 Okamura - MDDA (free mp3 release from Japan))

Intervall-audio releases Kumiko Okamura's MDDA album [IA.003], a collection of improvised first-takes recorded onto four-track tape, is full of elegy, poetry and violence — a dream-world that does not serve to prevent, but rather to invite, shock.

The tracks on MDDA make us aware of the fullness of life. And they do so informed by a strong musical instinct. One hears K.H. Stockhausen making contact, Yoko Ono singing from inside a closet, Pierre Schaeffer manipulating reels, alongside borrowings from Cologne techno, Group Ongaku, Brian Eno's music for airports, and many other vanguard musics — all mashed together into a subconscious image of a sound country that is hard for us to travel if we lack a willingness to be vulnerable and insist that music has to be soothing.

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