Dry Lake b/w Empty Kettle
(Meeuw Muzak - MM044) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Raw minimal banjo by Atsuo Ogawa and self-built electronics by Minoru Sato. “There’s a lot of space to these slow pieces,” observes Pete Um, “An interesting marriage of form and content [where] the recording method … highlight[s] the contrast between the brash and folksy tones of the banjo…, played in simple, clear, isolated notes, and the mysterious tinkle and scrape [of the electronics] that the ear strains to hear....”