Jigen - Stone Drum Avantgardism

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: ^ ^ 01
Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
Genre: Breakbeat

Repress: 05 Jul 2023

A1.残像
A2.一番勝負対右弦
A3.二番勝負対左弦音無
A4.三番勝負対半月百聞
B1.四番勝負対次弦三求敗
B2.samu siro 狭廷
B3.狂雲刀残庖
B4.五番勝負対次弦狂雲斎
B5.OUTRO 無闇

Kitchen sink Scuzz n’ Bass from 1998 Tokyo. Existing somewhere between Drum n Bass, Musique Concrète, Free Jazz and Noise, Jigen (aka Taro Nijikama) ran the cult Shi-Ra-Nui imprint and was a lynchpin of Tokyo's underground music scene, working as much behind the scenes as in front of them.

There is an inherent grit to the work on display here. Jazz-inflected drums, echoing bells, dissonant flutes, and haunting piano work coarsely interact with skipping breaks and industrial atmospherics, punctuated by tense gasps of silence. Samples disintegrate and reappear, creating a kind of elliptical narrative, and the 9 tracks here perhaps trigger a disorienting sense of dèjá vu.

Originally released on CD by Shi-Ra-Nui in 1998, Double Circumflex is proud to present the first officially licensed reissue of Stone Drum Avantgardism by Jigen and introduces the prescient sound of Shi-Ra-Nui for deeper excavation into its shadowy fissures. Mastered and cut with maximum precision by Beau Thomas at Teneightseven.