Sunday 3 May 2020

Osiris - In the Mists of Time (Japan, 1980)





I am not sure how useful the information sheet is above.
The discogs information reveals:

Hiro Kawahara's pre-Heretic band. Many other recordings were also released on cassette between 1978-1982, under the names of Osiris, Astral Temple and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. These are all hopelessly obscure and impossible to find.

This is pretty lovely electronic music that resembles such priceless French forerunners as Fondation, which brings back fond memories of those glory days of the mutantsounds blog, mixing guitars and synths in instrumental passages that are all evocative in unique ways.  Also welcome is the way the artist does short songs, like German Entrance the Pond, rather than the usual monotony of sidelong drony exercises in one-chord endurance.  I mean, I would find running a half marathon tiring, but listening to one C minor chord for twenty minutes is more exhausting than three consecutive full marathons back to back.  In fact I don't think I've ever undergone that particular form of 'enhanced interrogation' as the CIA calls it.  Like I've said before, I suspect often the artist fell asleep at his keyboard with his left hand still on the same chord, from boredom, of course. Anyways, this one is not like that at all.
First track:



3 comments:

  1. https://www.sendspace.com/file/gyui8w



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  2. Anything from the land of the rising sun is welcome fodder to my ears unless of course Merzbow which is a shall we say acquired taste. Thanks again for keep us entertained during the course of this most egregious of times..

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  3. Many thanks for another great album !
    A little correction if I may: Mist, not Mists.

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