Tzomborgha

Ruins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ipecac Recordings
• ASIN: B0000787GX
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,788 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a.m.a.z.i.n.g., November 18, 2002

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James Brinegar (Bloomington, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tzomborgha (Audio CD)

Hyderomastgroningem has always been my favorite Ruins album. I love all their albums, some more than others, but I tend to like the more tightly compositioned of their songs as opposed to the messy (but still cool) improv songs. Tzomborgha is the best Ruins album I have heard, and I've heard almost all of them... and THANK GOD Ipecac put it on their label alongside Magaibutsu to make it easier to get a hold of in the US.
This album is extremely complex, super tight, and includes a variety of different sounds with pedals and voice effects never before heard in any Ruins album. The album is simply amazing. I never thought Ruins could possibly come up with anything more original than Hyderomastgroningem but they have by going into a new abstract style. Take any number of their super complex signature-changing songs and add 100 more beats to each pattern... meaning a lot of the patterns are so long and complex that it must have taken them months just to memorize one measure. All the while remaining fast and upbeat... not just a single complex pattern slowed down.
Every song on it's own sounds like a combo of all my favorite Ruins songs rolled into one... times 15. I've been waiting for this album for a very very long time. If you only buy one Ruins album in your life, make it this one. THANK YOU Yoshida Tatsuya for being born!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars We all need more Japanese prog-rock, September 3, 2003

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SPM "scott_maykrantz" (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tzomborgha (Audio CD)

This is better than Hyderomastgroningem (the only other Ruins album I own) simply because it's all music. Hyderomastgroningem has a few tracks of howling gibberish and static. This time, every track is super-tight bass-and-drums. It sounds like twenty Rush instrumentals squished into 50 minutes.

If you like crazy, genre-hopping music like Mr. Bungle or just about anything by John Zorn (especially Naked City), you'll like this.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ..., July 23, 2004

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Dirty Pant'loon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tzomborgha (Audio CD)

You like complex, inhuman, yet oddly coherent music on crack? Look no further. This is like Britney Spears x 10!!!! Insanely technical and absolutely impossible to play. Unless you're japanese. Or RoboCop. Or both.

Read the previous section backwards, and put a pineapple on your computer. That is "Tzomborgha".