Label: Karlrecords

180グラムのリマスター仕様にて初フィジカル化!!Pauline Oliveros、Eliane Radigue、Yoshi Wadaらを集めた名作コンピレーションの監修をしたり、音楽家としては恩田 晃氏、向井千惠氏と共作を発表したりしているニューヨークのマルチインストゥルメンタリストChe Chen。ハンドメイド・ホルン奏者、パーカッショニストとして活動するRick Brownと2012年頃に結成したデュオユニット"75 Dollar Bill"の音源。ブルックリンで定期的な演奏を行い並行してプライベートのカセットを出版、その活動は徐々に人気上げていき、後にWire誌で年間ベストアルバム1位を獲得する等活動の形態を広げたグループ。本作は多くの演奏家のサポート受け2020年にデジタルのみで発表した名作[Power Failures]。アフリカン、ブルースロックをエクスペリメンタルな形態やミニマルへと落とし込んだ怒涛の変速グルーヴ集。全編激ヤバです。ゲートフォールド・ジャケット。







180gr double vinyl incl. download card

First ever, remastered vinyl version! The core duo plus guest collaborators expand its sonic palette of RICK BROWN’s elemental percussive patterns and CHE CHEN’s ecstatic modal guitar style to a new musical richness.

With some tape releases and their first album „Wooden Bag“, 75 DOLLAR BILL quickly introduced themselves as one of the hottest, most unique and essential groups at the heart of NYC's underground – the following “Wood/Metal/Plastic Pattern/Rhythm/Rock” (2016) made the duo known internationally, and the 2019 double vinyl “I Was Real” turned out a major success at the critics and audience alike with the #1 spot in The Wire’s albums of the year list! Then came the pandemic, and in lack of opportunities to actually perform in public, the core duo of RICK BROWN and CHE CHEN released several bandcamp only albums in digital format, one of these being „Power Failures“. BROWN’s elemental percussive patterns (often simply played on a wooden box) and CHE CHEN’s ecstatic modal guitar style (often under the influence of his studies with Mauritanian guitarist JEICH OULD CHIGALY) are at the core of the tracks with guest collaborators like YO LA TENGO’s IRA KAPLAN (guitar), SUE GARNER (violin) or STEVE MAING (saxophone, guitar) expanding the sonic palette to a new musical richness. Trance-inducing psychedelia, “placeless, gripping grooves” (The Guardian), collaged rehearsal and field recordings, mantric percussion, microtonal guitar sounds – 75 DOLLAR BILL sound as deeply rooted in traditions as they sound fresh-of-today, a kind of future music from the past. Hard to grasp by words, and impossible to resist!