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REVOLUTIONARY PEKINESE OPERA

Ground Zero

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3.60 | 16 ratings | 1 reviews | 44% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 1995

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. 6 Seconds 4 Frames (0:06)
2. Opening - Japanese Economy (9:27)
3. Consume Mao (1:32)
4. Thema Mao 1 (2:05)
5. Red Mao Book (4:23)
6. Frankfurt Mao (2:01)
7. Maologue (4:52)
8. Blue Mao (7:03)
9. Ronald Mao (0:39)
10. Enka Mao (1:14)
11. Pink Mao (1:27)
12. Maology (1:28)
13. Thema Mao 2 (0:51)
14. Slogan (0:52)
15. Grand Finale (1:11)
16. International (1:43)
17. 6 Seconds 4 Frames (0:06)

Total Time 41:00

Track list from 1996 "Version 1.28" release:
1. Opening - Flying Across the J.P.YEN (9:29)
2. Consume Mao (1:33)
3. Rush Capture of the Revolutionary Opera 1 (2:05)
4. Red Mao Book by Sony (4:23)
5. Crossing Frankfurt Four Times (2:02)
6. The Glory of Hong Kong - Kabukicho Conference (4:53)
7. Paraiso 1 (7:03)
8. Anouncing Good News from the West (0:40)
9. Revolutionary Enka 2001 (1:15)
10. Grand Pink Junktion Ballad (1:27)
11. Crossing Snow Mountains with Yamaha Bike (1:29)
12. Rush Capture of the Revolutionary Opera 2 (0:51)
13. Yellow Army, Beloved of the Various Nationalities (0:52)
14. Triumphant Junction (Grand Finale) (1:07)
15. International - Epilogue (2:49)
16. Paraiso 2 (5:36)

Total Time 47:34

Line-up / Musicians

- Yoshihide Otomo / guitar, turntables, producer
- Kazuhisa Uchihashi / guitar, effects
- Sachiko Matsubara / sampler, voice (10)
- Mitsuru Nasuno / bass
- Masahiro Uemura / drums, Enka keyboard (9)
- Yasuhiro Yoshigaki / drums & percussion, voice (10,11)

With:
- Yumiko Tanaka / voice & shamisen (1,13,14)
- DJ-Mao / samples (1,2,10,12,13,16)
- Kazuhiro Nomoto / bass clarinet (1)
- Aya / voice (4)
- Naruyoshi Kikuchi / tenor saxophone (9,12-14)
- Christian Marclay / performer (records without cover) (15,16)

Sampled guests:
- The original Pekinese Opera group
- Heiner Goebbels / piano
- Alfred Harth / saxophone
- Jon Rose / violin (2,10)
- Norimizu Amaya / telephone samples (1)
- Osamu Hashimoto / voice (2)
- Steve Beresford / voice (2)
- Rudolf Eb.er / voice (10,11)
- Compostela trio (3)

Note: Track numbers refer to the 1996 "Ver. 1.28" track list

Releases information

Based on a re-sampling of Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth's sampled rendition of 1960's Revolutionary Pekinese Opera from China the Peking Opera

Artwork: Oishi Chikaco

CD Trigram ‎- TR-P 909 (1995, Japan)
CD ReR Megacorp ‎- ReR GZ1 (1996, US) Updated edition, remixed and remastered, retitled "Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver. 1.28"

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GROUND ZERO Revolutionary Pekinese Opera ratings distribution


3.60
(16 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(44%)
44%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(25%)
25%
Good, but non-essential (19%)
19%
Collectors/fans only (6%)
6%
Poor. Only for completionists (6%)
6%

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3 stars 24rd January, 2022: Ground-Zero - Revolutionary Pekinese Opera Ver.1.28 (musique concréte/plunderphonics, 1996) There are no other albums like this one. That much is an observable fact. Taking traditional Chinese opera and mangling it into something between ambient, industrial and jazz rock is ... (read more)

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