The Ceremony by Hanzo Hasashi
Once in a while I get to find a gem which despite certain genre associations is beautifully elusive and doesn't get classified as this or something else.
''The Ceremony'' by Hanzo Hasashi is one of those albums. Experimental electronics set in a variety of different landscapes and compositional methods.
One thing you can notice is that a permeating feel of DIY cut up noise that is meandering throughout the whole album. Hanzo is using various found sounds and deconstructs them and loops them so the textures get to the point of some sort of glitchy harmonics which works as a hauntological hologram. Voices, pieces of melodies and cut up samples create some sort of funfair merry-go-round that is crafted with a sense of musical discipline and perseverance of a monk. Have a listen to the third track ''Flashbacks'' - it defines the style of Hasashi.
The undertones of heavy duty noise music finds its way subsequently in pretty industrial sounding title track.
The moods on this album are pretty intense and have some sort of mechanical nature - they often turn into a dynamic commotion that have some distant echoes of post-industrial techno but without beats - it's the repetition that does it.
Carefully used source sounds remind me of how much creativity is in that kind of obscure area that is grossly underrated.
With references to cut up noise, ambient and other genres - there is so much to discover here.
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