Main Main
Registration Registration
Login Login
Tuesday
12 August 2025
05:42
Welcome Guest | RSS


blog           

Site menu

Blog sections
Psyche/Garage/Folk [321]
Psychedelic, garage and folk music from the 60s until today
Alternative/Punk [91]
Alternative, punk, post-punk, new wave, minimal etc from '76 until today
Prog/Classic rock/Blues [93]
Progressive, Classic Rock, Blues
Soul/Funk/Ethnic [69]
Soul and Funk music, Ethnic etc

Blog's Recent Posts
  • Cosmic Trip Machine - Vampyros Roussos (2009) The Curse of Lord Space Devil (2010)
  • A Bunch of Fronds
  • Smell Of Incense / Ethereal Counterbalance (split EP, 1997)
  • Evel Gazebow - 2010 - A Message to Your Mind
  • The Tricks of the Sun - 2007 - The Tricks of the Sun
  • The Magnificent Brotherhood - 2010 - Dope Idiots‏
  • Baby Scream - 2010 - Baby Scream
  • St. Atom HRT605 - 2010 - Smiling Autumn Leaves
  • James McKeown - 2010 - James McKeown
  • The Vertigo Swirl - 2010 - A New Swirled Record
  • The Morticians - 1987 - Freak Out with the Morticians
  • Yesterday's Thoughts - 2009 - A Moment to Pray
  • Apothecary Hymns - 2005 - Trowel and Era
  • The Steppes - 1997 - Gods, Men and Ghosts
  • Bumble B - 2004 - Flight Of The Bumble B
  • Mandra Gora Lightshow Society - 2001 - Space Rave (EP)
  • Vibravoid - 2010 - What Colour is Pink ? (EP)
  • Allison - 2009 - People from Outer Space
  • Embryo with Charlie Mariano and the Karnataka College of Percussion - 1980 - Life
  • Unknown Passage - Dead Tymes (2008)



  •  Blog


    Main » 2007 » May » 31 » Angel'in Heavy Syrup
    Angel'in Heavy Syrup
    15:34

    Angel'in Heavy Syrup

    Biography :
    Although guitarist, producer, and theorist Jojo Hiroshige is one of the leading figures on the Japanese noise music scene, his protégées in the all-female quartet Angel'in Heavy Syrup could not be further from the sort of extreme noise terrorism Hiroshige is best known for. Their quiet, meditative music is clearly influenced by the gentler side of '70s Krautrock and progressive rock; think of the gentler moments of Can or Gong, made even more ghostly and delicate by the group's low-key instrumentation and gossamer vocals. This is music in constant danger of becoming so airy it might drift off into the ether, were it not rooted by subtly polyrhythmic drums and hand percussion seemingly based on traditional Japanese court music. Angel'in Heavy Syrup was formed in 1990 by singer and bassist Mineko Itakura and guitarist Mine Nakao, who are the only constants in the lineup. Drafting drummer Yoko Mandrake in to complete the original lineup, the trio found favor with Hiroshige, who signed them to his Alchemy Records imprint and produced their first album, Angel'in Heavy Syrup I, which was released in Japan in 1991 and in the United States by Subterranean Records the following year. Before their second album was recorded, some lineup changes took place. Mandrake was replaced by Tomoko Takahara, who played flute in addition to drums and percussion. The trio also recruited a second guitarist, Fusao Toda, which meant that Nakao now had a foil with whom she could create ever more delicate spun-sugar curlicues of electric guitar sound. The pair also adds glockenspiel and chimes beginning with 1993's Angel'in Heavy Syrup II, adding an even more fragile ghostliness to the band's sound. Though the album primarily consists of extended, improvisatory ambience, it also includes a peculiarly wonderful deconstruction of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe." The new lineup held together long enough to record their third album, Angel'in Heavy Syrup III, released in Japan in early 1995. Later that year, American avant-rock distributor Charnel Music started a new label, Circular Reasoning, for the express purpose of releasing this album in the United States; as a bonus, the label added "Introduction I: Naked Sky High," the opening track from Angel'in Heavy Syrup II, which had never been released in the U.S. The group remained quiet for nearly half a decade after their third album, finally returning with Angel'in Heavy Syrup IV in late 1999. Takahara was gone, and as if to admit that they're incapable of keeping a steady drummer, her replacement Naoko Otani is credited as a guest musician. Their first album to be released simultaneously in Japan and the United States, the beautifully packaged Angel'in Heavy Syrup IV was also the first to feature English translations of Itakura's Japanese lyrics in the liner notes.
    ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

    MySpace URL: http://www.myspace.com/angelinheavysyrup





    Category: Psyche/Garage/Folk | Views: 2082 | Added by: Opa-Loka | Rating: 0.0/0 |

    Login form

    Calendar
    «  May 2007  »
    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
      12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    2728293031

    Search

    Site Friends

    Statistics

    Copyright MyCorp © 2025
    Powered by uCoz