Artist: Ruins
Genre(s):
Other
Rock
Discography:
Hyderomastgroningem
Year: 1995
Tracks: 20
Vrresto
Year:
Tracks: 13
Ruins (Tatsuya Yoshida (drums/vocals) and Hisashi Sasaki (bass/vocals)) plays a unique var. of manic and distorted progressive rock and roll for these millennian multiplication. This duo's compositions are composite and tin can be disorienting to whatever attender wHO is habitual to less innovative, active, and demanding musics. Yoshida, the introduction member of Ruins, formed the band in 1985. Since that time, thither have been a number of different bass players, including Ryuichi Masuda, Hisashi Sasaki, and Kimoto Kazuyoshi. Bandleader/drummer/singer Yoshida credits such diverse influences as progressive rock stalwarts Magma, authoritative composers such as Chopin, and traditional pharynx vocalizing from Tuva. Though hints of these and other influences (e.g. Bill Bruford, Rush, Pink Floyd, Gong, King Crimson, Magma, Yes, and Genesis) a great deal come through in the Ruins sound, thither is no mistaking them for anyone else. Many of their compositions engage odd time signatures, sudden tempo changes, and passages of heavily processed noise. The bass, which unlike to the highest degree has vI string section, is often threaded through various personal effects. Both members of the banding sing vocables that complement one another. These vocables are meant to be nonsensical and that's how they sound and are usually improvised, as ar portions of their songs. Their boilersuit sound is helter-skelter still exact, noisy still proportionate, tricky hitherto loathsome, frenetic so far disciplined. As if the demands of Ruins were not sufficiency, both Yoshida and Masuda keep themselves busy with various musical english projects (e.g. Vasilisk, YBO2, Men of the Continent Versus the Mountain Women). From time to meter, Ruins will get together with others. These citizenry have included saxophonist/producer John Zorn, keyboardist Kenichi Oguchi, vocalists Eleonola Emi and Aki Kubota, the athletic punkers Schlong, Kazutoki Umezu, producer Steve Albini, and guitarists Derek Bailey and Jason Willet. Ruins suffer many releases in the pattern of singles, collaborations, and full-length CDs. Among these full-length albums ar Stonehenge (1990), Combustion Stone (1992), Refusal Fossil (1997), and Symphonica (1998). Pallaschtom followed, comprised of trey tracks: a classical music pastiche, a hard rock and roll pastiche, and a progressive careen medley. They were critically historied and constitute time to press release a compilation of their rareties, highborn 1986-1992, in the spring of 2002. Several months later, Tzomborgha appeared.
Alex Masi
