K.K. Null _ Chris Watson _ Z'EV – Number One
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Touch – Tone 24
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CD, Album
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Tracklist
| 1 | Invocation - Kami, (The Celestial) Jupiter Sight Wood East Spring Dawn | 8:20 | ||
| 2 | Introduction - Man, (The Warrior) Mars Speech Fire South Summer Morning | 9:44 | ||
| 3 | Development - Woman, (The Balance) Saturn Taste Earth Center Late Summer Noon | 12:03 | ||
| 4 | Climax - Madness, (The Trickster / Fool) Venus Smell Metal Autumn Dusk / Sunset | 9:40 | ||
| 5 | Conclusion - Demon, (The Super-Natural) Mercury Hearing Water North Winter Twilight | 8:28 |
Companies etc
- Published By – Touch Music
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Touch
- Copyright (c) – Touch
Credits
- Edited By, Mixed By, Producer – Z'EV
- Electronics, Percussion [Electro-percussion] – Kazuyuki Kishino
- Photography By – Jon Wozencroft
- Sounds [Binary Acoustic Files] – Z'EV
- Sounds [Location Sounds], Liner Notes – Chris Watson
Notes
Traditional Noh correspondences for their 5 part cycle of plays.
Kazuyuki Kishino: electronics & electro-percussion produced January 2004.
Chris Watson: location sounds recorded in East Africa.
Z'ev: 25 binary-acoustic files produced January 2004.
Edits, assembling and mixes produced 20-24 March 2004.
Chris Watson sources:
1: dawn in acacia woodland. Rapid light and temperature changes.
2: vultures down on an animal carcass in the short grass plains. The intense activity of a feeding battle resolving into the song of a single sooty chat - the fire of midday.
3: elephant herd led by a powerful matriarch, grazing on the edge of a marsh… Gazelles and zebra swish through the long grass… Contact rumbles from the herd females.
4: the on-coming storm; wind rush and the deep smell of change. Low infrasonic thrum. Disorientation and confusion.
5: the amphibian chorus, enveloping yet impossible to locate. Rhythmic dusk and rapid darkness.
Digipak packaging.
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My only problem with this record is that—from what I can tell—a portion of Watson's contribution is taken directly from his record "Weather Report". Thus if you are familiar with that record, you might not be as taken by "Number One". It is worth it, however, to purchase this record for z'ev and Null's contributions (and Watson's). One can only hope that field recordings are again married so successfully with contemporary and avant-garde sound and noise artists. (ie, "Number Two" ?)