Iro – たまふり (Tama-furi) [CD] Electronic / Experimental Sugai San sent me a

Sugai San sent me a collection of personal field recordings he made of folklore groups and public performances in Tokyo

Rejecting melody to form a new language of timbre

to its return to that great undifferentiated matrix’

It features a host of artists

Iro – たまふり (Tama-furi) [CD] Electronic / Experimental Sugai San sent me a"An ultra mysterious blast from the deepest underground! Iro were (and still are) a little known shamanic improvisation unit, consisting of Kawasaki based husband and wife Shizuko and Toshio Orimo. Formed in 1981, they released a number of cassette only albums during the '80s. Deeply suspicious of the merest whiff of commercialism, they never took the opportunities for greater fame in spite of some substantial media coverage in Japan at the time. The