Now Wide-Open In The Magnetic Bungalow - Usui's "Lasered Eye"

11/13/2018

November's Magnetic Bungalow features a classic of Japanese experimental home recording.
Aioi Usui's 1993 cassette album "Lasered Eye" is full of ideas both unique to Japan and universal. The recordings showcase Usui's thoughtful personality as well as his unusual approaches to song writing.

This tape came with a nice little photocopied booklet that includes lyrics and/or descriptions for all of its songs -- written in both Japanese and English. It also came with a fancy transparent envelope that contained some unusual color photographs.

Usui described this to me as "the pick with which I make all the noise."

Tune into this program on Saturday, November 17, 2018, 12:00 AM USA Pacific Standard Time on KOWS, 92.5 FM (that's Friday at Midnight), here:
KOWS

Or else, the link below will hook you up to the show any time:
Deprogramming Center 77

14 Comments

gen ken

11/13/2018 17:15:07

Merci Swamy Loopi !

Another interesting artist I was unfamiliar with, and another great radio show. Your ear pockets are deep.

Swami L.

11/14/2018 10:37:59

Thanks for tuning en, Ken! Appreciate your positive reinforcement. Usui wrote me today, including a greeting -- "Say hi to Gen Ken." Maybe you should write him directly (which I could help facilitate if you like).

Frank

11/13/2018 20:06:36

Hello Swami,

That was a very Jazzy Magnetic Bungalow-episode, loved it!

I wonder, the artist who appear on MB-shoes, they are aware of Electronic Cottage?

Swami L.

11/14/2018 10:44:48

Glad you dug the show, Frank, thanks for listening. Usui also wrote me, "Say hi to Frank." Let me know if you wanna get in touch directly.

Regards the artists who have so far been invited into my Bungalow -- at least 5 of 7 are "aware," because I interviewed them directly. I hope the others are too, or at least will become aware one day (since the archive.org posts can be very long-lived).

Lord Litter link

11/14/2018 09:43:55

ahhh.. my good friend Aioi "Usui" Tadashi AKA Watanabe Chiaki!!!

The ONLY one who ever did a Lord Litter cover version - the song was *I never been to Paris* which he recorded with his girl trio *The Picnic* on a CD ...

I just LOVE his music .. it's so very unqiue ..and so very japanese .. which I also love .. for example: the only new movies I watch with excitement are all from Japan ..

and there is this book now published in Japan exploring the ex GDR underground scene presenting das Freie Freie Orchester ...

ahhh ... Japan underground!!!

Swami L.

11/14/2018 10:47:02

Of course, as I mention in the broadcast, 'twas YOU who brought Usui and I together. My eternal thanks, Your Lordship -- for this introduction and for so many more as well...

Rafael González

11/14/2018 12:59:12

Thank you! I did not know him. Enjoying a lot!

Chris Phinney

11/14/2018 18:43:01

A wonderful show Swami as usual & a artist I was not familiar with. Kudos!

William Davison link

11/14/2018 20:33:08

Great show! Was not familiar with Usui. Fun stuff!

Frank

11/15/2018 01:55:21

I thought... let me post a link to a live show.

https://youtu.be/eKmQhjGN3P0

Rafael González

11/15/2018 09:14:02

Thanks Frank!!!!

Swami L.

11/15/2018 10:49:03

Hooray! This post has taken a life of its own, many thanks to all you who are responding -- you are bringing Usui to new life here! Hooray!

Hal McGee

11/15/2018 10:57:53

I'm listening right now! In the Internet Age, when we have access to recordings of music from all times, music that was once old is now new again, is now current!

Hal

11/15/2018 13:58:47

Bravo! Thank you, Usui and Swami!

Swami Loopynanda

Greetings!
I am one of the several alter-egos of Charles Rice Goff III. I am best known as a radio host, although I have had some of my reviews published here and there over the years, and have even been involved in occasional recording projects.

In honor of Hal resurrecting his Electronic Cottage, for the next year or so (starting May, 2018) I will be dedicating one radio broadcast per month to a single cassette album release.
My radio show is called The Deprogramming Center, and it can be heard live on KOWS, 92.5 FM, in Occidental/
Sebastopol, California, at 12:00 AM USA Pacific Time, every other Saturday (that's Midnight on Fridays).
I also provide temporary links to all my broadcasts on archive.org. Because these special cassette album broadcasts are being coordinated with Electronic Cottage, the name I've given to this new program series is: Magnetic Bungalow.
Stay tuned for regular details.

Links:

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Deprogramming Center Replays/Preplays

Charles Rice Goff III
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