Angherr Shisspa

Koenji Hyakkei | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Skin Graft Records
• ASIN: B000B83832
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,991 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, August 4, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Angherr Shisspa (Audio CD)

It amazes me how much good music comes from Japan. Between Keiji Haino, Merzbow, Muddy World, Ruins, Otomo Yoshihide, Acid Mothers Temple and the Boredoms, you'd think the place would be bled dry of anything new to offer up. Alas, such is not the case as Koenjihyakkei prove, who manage to add their name to the list of great avant/prog artists like those above. I honestly hear something new every time I throw this one in the changer. The shifting dynamics, tight compositions and excellent playing ability of all involved makes this one of the best whim purchases for me thus far. I really can't think of anyone or anything to compare this band to, but if you're into something new, at least moderately interested in the avant-garde and prog scenes, or fascinated with Japanese music, you'll find something to like here.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take me to the limit!, November 4, 2005

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Speedy (Fl, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angherr Shisspa (Audio CD)

If you experienced these guys last album you know what to expect. Heavy and dense yet layered prog music that rocks. Magma is the closest comparison...but they are moving away from that specific style and becoming their on voice in the 'Zeuhl' idiom. In this outing you can feel the band has grown in experience: tighter arrangements (if that is posible!), better command of dynamics and voicings and a deeper conviction in the whole 'Zeuhl' thing.
Love it and comes highly recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unrecognized Classic!, September 24, 2007

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Miles Massicotte "thedevilsadvocate" (Bristol, CT, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Angherr Shisspa (Audio CD)

Before I do dare to call this album one of the best progressive rock, maybe the entire rock canon, my listening crudentials are that I am a rock buff and an open listener. My favorite musics (yes, it is okay to spell it with an "s") are classical, jazz, what are usually the higher art music. I recently (well, years ago) got into seeing rock as an art form. My answers are unprejudiced, uninfluenced, and confident. Of course, it is always personal taste. But when a certian work as an undeniable musicality no matter your taste, I feel I can recognize it.

And wouldn't you know! Angherr Shisspa is such an album!

Seriously, this is a level of musicianship and virtuosity almost never seen in rock. Period. The compositions are driving, meditative, complex. The energy unwaivering. Comparisons like to be drawn between this and Magma albums (another gooden) but I can only compare this to one album I've ever heard (and I've heard 'em all) and that is Dun's only album Eros (can you say masterpiece?).

This album for me gets put in a rank of the greatest fusion albums, of which I use the term loosely: to me it means not just jazz-rock, but all music which obviously combines more than one genre into a "supergenre", that is fusion. These great albums are: Blood Sweat and Tears - Child is Father to the Man, System of a Down - Mezmerize+Hypnotize, Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free, Henry Cow - Unrest, Spring Heel Jack - Disappeared, SBB - Memento z Banalnym tryptykiem, Godspeed You Balck Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists..., Mahavisnu's Inner Mounting Flame, Bitches Brew, Eros, and this. Some of these might not even make my top 30, but they are the prime examples of mastery over many genres. (Obviously, the "great albums" could probably be cited as these kinds too: Trout Mask Replica has a blues influence and The Whie Album is all over the map, but since those are indeed primarily influences and not obvious physical discrepancies I leave them out for the sake of organization!)

Ya.