Consume Red [Original recording reissued]

Ground Zero | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 1996)
• Original Release Date: September 9, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Recommended Records
• ASIN: B000001OT9
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,064 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Consume Red

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best albums ever, June 20, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Consume Red (Audio CD)

I would put this in my top 10 (maybe my top 5?) albums of all time. Certainly, my favorite Otomo Yoshihide album. For half the album, you just hear this wailing flute-ish middle-eastern sounding sample that pulses between the two speakers. You fall into a trance. Then, at the halfway mark, all these instruments come in and it's like nothing you've ever heard. I once heard a story that I'm pretty sure is wrong:

After this performance the band decided to break up because they thought they could never play anything as good as that again.

This is probably not true, but you'd think it was from the music.

This is the first of his albums I've listened to, but still my favorite. If you like Miles Electric, NoWave/Noise, freejazz, I.D.M., experimental or other odd music, YOU WILL LIke this.

Ornette Coleman and Lightning Bolt got married, and this was their child.
-VoodooArtist

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, January 26, 2004

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jordan (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consume Red (Audio CD)

I would agree with the other reviewer that this is simply one of the greatest pieces of music ever. A review can really not justly describe the strange yet awe-inspiring piece of music that is Consume Red. Even if you do not usually delve into experimental music, this will convert you into the wonderful musical world of Otomo Yoshihide and others.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW., June 16, 1998

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Jason ([e-mail]) (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consume Red (Audio CD)

The best album of the year, of the decade, of ever. The sample of Korean horn player Kim Suk Chul is awe-inspiring, and Ground Zero constucts an epic-length piece around this ear-shattering sound.