Wilson Tanner – 69

N.D.E. remains one of our favorites from the post synth-pop Hosono era and was made in collaboration with G. Hotoda (musician and YMO tech guru in the early 90s), the clearly present ambient-dub master Bill Laswell, French-born New York dance music legend François Kevorkian, and Y. Terada (Hosono’s engineer and frequent collaborator), with some added material from acclaimed saxophonist Yasauki Shimizu. Expanding on the Medicine Compilation sound, N.D.E is a heady trip into heavy atmospherics and dubbed-out psychedelic rhythms leaning heavily on tabla and arabic instruments. A cover-to-cover psychedelic masterpiece, one hands-down highlight is the extra dubby and spaced-out third track, “Teaching of Sphynx,” which features Laswell’s signature punk-infused, heavy low end dub sound. This album is finally available again on vinyl via Rush Hour after years of being a (mostly) CD-only release.
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Recommended – Full Listen
A1 Spinning Spirits
A2 Navigations
B1 Teaching Of Sphinx
B2 Strange Attractor
C1 Heliotherapy
C2 Higher Flyer
D1 Edge Of The End
D2 Aero
Alto Saxophone – Yasuaki Shimizu
Bass – Bill Laswell
Engineer – Bill Laswell, François Kevorkian, Goh Hotoda, Junichi Yajima, Robert Musso, Yasuhiko Terada
Guitar – Jen Monnar
Mixed By – Yasuhiko Terada
Post Production, Producer [Additional Production] – Goh Hotoda
Producer – Haruomi Hosono
Producer [Additional Production] – Ayumi Obinata, François Kevorkian
Programmed By – Junichi Yajima, Robert Musso
Remastered By, Lacquer Cut By – Stefan Betke
Synthesizer, Programmed By – Haruomi Hosono
Violin [Indo-Violin] – Arun Bagal
Voice – Yoshiko Oda