Label: Hiddenbell Records

当店激推しのパーカッショニストChristian Wolfarthのプライベートレーベルより出版された同国重鎮の傑作ソロ音源!!1960年ニューヨーク出身、80年代から実験グループやバンドに参加、2000年にスイスへ移住し現在はチューリッヒを拠点に活動を展開するドラム/パーカッション奏者Jason Kahn。古びたドラムとシンバルによる過激な即興ドラミング + 恐ろしいヴォイスのみで仕上げた先鋭的ソロLP[Lining Out]。言葉にならない唸りや呻き声は様々な地域の歌唱や礼拝からインスピレーションを受けたものであり、終始ヒリヒリとした際どい演奏は自身の骨/肉体をジャグリングしているかの様。180グラム重量盤。





Pressed in 180g Heavy Vinyl with Inlay Card

Voice & Drums

'Jason Kahn – great solo record called Lining Out (hiddenbell records 011) from this American genius holed up in Switzerland. I find we’ve been hearing records from Jason for twenty years now, and he’s never turned in a duff release or made a dishonest sound. This one is just two sides of improvised drumming and voice; he moans, groans and grunts wordlessly while rattling away on the old skins and cymbals, as if juggling the bones of his own skeleton while watching himself being flayed alive. A perfect illustration of the human condition, in short. Apparently the inspiration for this move is drawn from all over – Gaelic psalm singing, Baptist congregations, and recently-discovered recordings from the Neanderthal period (I could be lying about one of these sources). I haven’t read the text on the printed insert; should I? I feel the record says it all, and anyone who can’t connect to this primal shamanic bleat at the most immediate level is most likely a salamander, or a lump of pumice stone. This guy should make a record with fellow primitive Fritz Welch some time…that’d reignite the spirit of the caveman across the hemisphere! Released on Christian Wolfarth’s label, from 21 May 2019.'