Incapacitants – Feedback of N.M.S. 2LP

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Reissue, originally released in 1991.Incapacitantsare the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project ofToshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise groupHijokaidan. Mikawa later moved to Tokyo, where he joined withFumio Kosakai(also an occasional member of Hijokaidan, as well as a former member ofC.C.C.C.) to make Incapacitants a duo and they released its first albumFeedback of N.M.S.on Alchemy Records CD in 1991. Sometimes it’s the result of luck. In others it’s due to years of rigorous work or through unlikely combinations of individual creative practices. In the case ofFeedback of N.M.S., the first release to feature the collaborative duo of Mikawa and Kosakai, all three are in play. Comprising three tracks of visionary expression — incorporating elements of junk metal, modular synthesis, hand-made noisy objects, and real-time instrumental and vocal improvisation — it encounters each artist entering a new stage of their career, harnessing the challenges posed by the other as a means to drive toward new creative unknowns. Central to this is the pair’s unique approach to structure and form, in addition to their chosen instruments and electronics. The first track “Curse Of Ceauescu”, played on two sides of the first vinyl is something incredible. A truly stunning, visionary expanse of texture and tonality — pushing noise practice and the very notions of language into uncharted realms. The others two tracks that fill the sides of the second vinyl complete this masterpiece increasingly pushing into more constrained of electronics phenomena, site specific resonance, and complex harmonic interplay, that consistently rethink the terms of noise, infusing it with tension, dissonance, and a deeply emotive, human touch. An absolutely masterful piece of work, threaded with risk, ambition, raw immediacy, and precision. While astounding artists in their own right, deserving every bit of the accolades they’ve thus far received, Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai seem capable of something profound together that has yet to have heard.Feedback of N.M.S.is everything you would hope to hear from an experimental endeavor and so much more. Includes six cards reproducing Takuya Sakaguchi’s original drawings and adding an unreleased drawing and extensive notes in Japanese and English; edition of 299.