A new purchase and a homecoming of sorts ! I've just recovered a bunch of LPs I'd left in storage (ie the folks' home), for want of a turntable.
Wha-ha-ha, Getahaite Konakucha, Absord Music Japan, 2003, recorded 1981.
Wha-ha-ha is Akira Sakata's "pop band", though it's actually the strangest mix of dub, free jazz, prog rock (Henry Cow style) and music theater I've ever heard. The song below is NOT representative of what they're really up to.
As for the LPs
Jim O'Rourke, Halfway to a Threeway, Drag City, 1999
Note that the Youtube poster got the title wrong (most people do) : the tune is called "Not sport, marital art"
David Grubbs, The Coxcomb / Aux Noctambules, Rectangle Records, Picture Disc, 1998
Sonic Youth & Jim O'Rourke, Invito al Cielo, SYR, 1997, clear vinyl
Sonic Youth with William Winant, Jim O'rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, Christian Wolff, Coco Haley Gordon Moore, Christian Marclay, Wharton Tiers, Goodbye 20th Century, SYR, 1999, 2LPs.
Sonic Youth and friends play music by various 20th century composers (John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Takehisa Kosugi, George Maciunas, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, Nicolas Slonimsky, James Tenney and Christian Wolff. Pauline Oliveros' piece was written specifically for them.
The Recyclers (with Katerine, Ignatus, Sasha Andrès, Irène Jacob and Olivier Glissant), Morceaux choisis, 1997.
Amusingly, this is a sort of opposite to SY's Goodbye 20th Century : here, three musicians well versed in free jazz and contemporary improvisation (Benoît Delbecq, Noël Akchoté and Steve Argüelles) play songs by mainstream French songwriters (George Moustaki, Brigitte Fontaine, Segre Gainsbourg, Léo Ferré, Jacques Brel, Nino Ferrer, to name most of them). Great stuff !