Agencement

A new discovery right here on Underground Violin...another true radical motherfucker straight out of Japan. Hideaki Shimada came scraping out of the 1980s Japanese noise multiverse (it seems old mate from Merzbow encouraged him to release his stuff on his own Pico imprint or something along these lines) with his echoing, scraping, chattering, looping, ring-modulated works for solo violin as Agencement. While I ordinarily feel some derision toward some of the Cageian extended techniques that violinists like Hideaki use, he makes it into a glorious cacophony that is truly interesting to behold in your eardrums...You can find a bit out about him HERE and I plan to post plenty more about this man soon...