'The Top Is The Bottom' is a harrowing slow-motion crawl through alleys and sewers of room tone as captured by the tunnel-vision fidelity of the trademark yek koo dictaphone
feelings at once hopelessly romantic and deeply melancholic permeate throughout the album
Yet "Slumber" offers a glimmer of respite sitting within the chaotic circus of production that channels Kendra Smith
this album has always confounded even soi disant Dead C fans
Don abandoned his signature pocket trumpet for the piano and harmonium
Various – Experimental Music of Japan [USED LP] Jazz / Free Improv 'The Top Is The Bottom'~foundational~ compilation of earliest japanese avant electronics from yuasa, ichiyanagi, takemitsu, moroi, mayuzumi & ishii. crude tape slurry, spectral ghost tones, sensual concrte collage. Victor, 1968