Yoshi Wada ‎– Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile (OG - Sealed)

Label: India Navigation ‎– IN 3025
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

Seminal trance-inducing works for Bagpipes and Voice from the late Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada - Sealed original copies on India Navigation.

Recorded in a disused swimming pool in upstate New York in the early 80s, Wada - utilising only his own voice and a mammoth set of bag pipes - creates one hour of utterly mesmerising transcendence.  It basks in the ether of the original American minimalists, most obviously La Monte Young’s early works with Zazeela and The Theatre Of Eternal Music (Wada was a student of La Monte), but also Terry Riley’s Reed Streams and Pauline Oliveros’ works for accordion and voice.  His decision to explore just two of the most traditional and fundamental drone instruments (the human voice and bag pipes) is extremely brave, yet after spending time literally living inside his instrument, Wada began adjusting his over-tonal singing to create a series of intervals he was happy with.  It’s feels as he’s trapped in a trance-like state, existing alone within the music and suffused with the sustained drone of the bagpipe.  It really captures and exemplifies his guru La Monte Young’s intention of ‘getting inside the sound’.   One of the most pivotal and fundamental works within the minimalism canon.  We don't have many!  (Mint / New - original sealed dead-stock copies)

Tracklist
A Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile 22:20
B Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile (Continued) 22:40