DISCOGRAPHY
As ENG (electronoise group) "Dokument 2006-2009" -2CDR Album Release, Edition NIkO (Japan) 2009 "TAO"-MP3 Compilation Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2009 "The Best Of NTNS Radio"-MP3 Compilation Release, NTNS Radio (Netherlands) 2009 "Kollaps"-MP3 Album Release, Alg-a Label (Spain) 2008 "monographic9"-MP3 Compilation Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2008 "Barcelona"-MP3 Album Release, TecnoNucleo (Spain) 2007 "2nd"-CDR Album Release, Room Label (Japan) 2006 "Electronoise Group"-CDR Album Release, Room Label (Japan) 2006
As shotahirama
ENG director, shotahirama, his solo works coming soon. New CD and new BOOK available soon from "Improvised Music from Japan" (Japan). More info coming.
New CDR Album "Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo" from "Re-Records" (Hong Kong). More info coming.
Dokument 2006-2009
ENG final album is now on sale from Edition NIkO (Tokyo). BUY at: disk union (Japan) 2CDR, 1890 YEN. LTD100.
The Ultimate DOKUMENT of time of a historical Band. ENG (electronoise group), a Myth, a Cult, a Philosophy. After more than 6 months of planing and organising this momumental release is finally realised. Edition NIkO is proud to present a limited 100 copies paper sleeve CDR that documents the first 4 years and the first stage of the band. CDR with original design by shotahirama dedicated to his respect John Heartfield. Besides the official File-Releases such as Barcelona, Kollaps from Tecnonucleo and Alg-a, this CDR also includes live recordings from their concert at BankART 1929 museum, Yokohama in 06, and also Shunt Club, London in 08, their first concert at loopline in 06, the Enban Concert at Tokyo in 09, plus a few more live-documents.
Track lists: 1.Geisha Rape Blues (from Kollaps released by Alg-a, 08), 2.For Emil Ruder (live rec from Enban, 09), 3.Jehovah Genocide (Unpublished track from magic book records, 09), 4.Sun (from Kollaps released by Alg-a and NTNS Radio, 08), 5.Zomanna (from Kollaps released by Alg-a, 08), 6.Animalia's hand job (live rec from Enban, 09), 7.Funeral Music for dadaism (from TAO released by Tecnonucleo, 09), 8.Panik (Unpublished, 08), 9.BPM as Broken Penis Moonlight (Unpublished, 09), 10.Germanik (Unpublished, 08), 11.Dada corrupted (Unpublished track from Raash Records, 06), 12.Ich bin konkret poesie (from Barcelona released by Tecnonucleo, 07), 13.Sambient (Unpublished track from Raash Records, 06), 14.Silent (from Chainindividual released by Edition NIkO, 07), 15.No name (live rec from BankART 1929 museum, 06), 16.No name (live rec from Akihabara GOODMAN, 06), 17.Anarchitektur (Unpublished and mastering by shunjiTAKAMI, 07), 18.Auto (Unpublished and mastering by shunjiTAKAMI, 07), 19.Fruhling (from 81.3 J-WAVE Radio Sakamoto, 08), 20.Wahrnehmungen (Unpublished, 07), 21.Esplendor Paisaje (live rec from Kasama museum, 07), 22.Model Control Organism (Unpublished, 09), 23.Cruising Geisha (live rec from Enban, 09)
(ENG at Shunt Club, London, UK. 2008. Pic by sebastian heroiu)
About :
Radical free/spontaneous music/art ensemble, The Electronoise Group (ENG) founded in early 2006 by Japanese-American soundArtist, shotahirama. It is a group that are making concrete drone sounds with their free-improv expression and the ideas from "laptop" "noise" and "Art". Using laptop, tape-operation, and tape-loop, generated guitar, the project ideal is to express the content of various psycho pathological conditions, especially depressive psychosis, and paranoia. And also making an art design, a photomontage with strong attention to Dada and Bauhaus.
ENG was initially composed of shotahirama on tape-operation, Toshitaka Ikeda on guitar and shunjiTAKAMI on laptop. Musicians were free to join in, but such collaborations were often short-lived if the contributions were lacking the proper spirit or whatever. No ENG performance is ever planned; each is unique and spontaneous. The musicians vowed never to rehearse and never to discuss what they had played.
Founder:
shotahirama is a Japanese-American Sound Artist located in Tokyo, inspired by Modern Art, Dada and Bauhaus. Also known for the founding of the Edition NIkO (NIkO Label), ENG (electronoise group) and JANDEATH. His musical focus is characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts. shota' music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are fused into one.
Shota, as a solo artist or in other project, has released music on the following record labels: Improvised Music From Japan (Japan. CD/BOOK, coming Dec. 2009), Re-Records (Hongkong. CDR album, coming 2010), Under The Spire Recordings (UK. CDR album, coming 2010), and net labels: TecnoNucleo (Spain. mp3 album, 2007), Alg-a (Spain. mp3 album, 2008), NTNS Radio (Netherlands. mp3 compilation, 2009).
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Hi Shota, hope you re good. I am a little busy for the moment with my incoming gigs...but I m waiting for the Jandeath songs from you, to inspired me to make some dada poetry...:-) talk soon...xxMonxx
Hi my lovely ENG Hello dear Shota!! How are you? I ve been busy lately. i moved from that flat:-)...a new one, a better one, a cheaper one:-)) heheeee hope everything is good with you... I couldnt recorded something recently to send it to you( my acoustics ones) - my audio saffire is at the service- waiting for it or maybe a new one... until then...life and singing at the clubs:-)) lalaaaaaaaaaa give me a sign when you have time and let me know about your work. Greetings for all!!! kisses, Monxx
