THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

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Balor/SS1535

Quote from: Eloy on November 18, 2020, 11:35:56 PM
https://twitter.com/karasukiller/status/1117428998319919107

I never expected him to be a nationalist in any form (his anti-music is almost enough to prove that).  I can't read the bottom of the patch, though - does it say Antifa?

Theodore

Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 19, 2020, 12:47:37 AM
Quote from: Eloy on November 18, 2020, 11:35:56 PM
https://twitter.com/karasukiller/status/1117428998319919107

I never expected him to be a nationalist in any form (his anti-music is almost enough to prove that).  I can't read the bottom of the patch, though - does it say Antifa?

"Support your local antifa" , i think. - Bliah !

Dont know how anti-music is connected with nationalism, or antifa, or any politics...
"ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες"

Balor/SS1535

Quote from: Theodore on November 19, 2020, 02:24:31 AM
Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 19, 2020, 12:47:37 AM
Quote from: Eloy on November 18, 2020, 11:35:56 PM
https://twitter.com/karasukiller/status/1117428998319919107

I never expected him to be a nationalist in any form (his anti-music is almost enough to prove that).  I can't read the bottom of the patch, though - does it say Antifa?

"Support your local antifa" , i think. - Bliah !

Dont know how anti-music is connected with nationalism, or antifa, or any politics...

That's what I thought it said.

I didn't want to make any particular connection with politics, so much as say that anti-music does not seem to be really used in political contexts in the first place (excluding, of course, the inevitable exception).  I never got any political meaning out of The Gerogerigegege in the first place, and actually tend to listen to them when I want to avoid music with any political/serious themes.


Theodore

Quote from: Balor/SS1535 on November 19, 2020, 03:32:41 AM
I didn't want to make any particular connection with politics, so much as say that anti-music does not seem to be really used in political contexts in the first place (excluding, of course, the inevitable exception).  I never got any political meaning out of The Gerogerigegege in the first place, and actually tend to listen to them when I want to avoid music with any political/serious themes.

OK, i misunderstood. Thought you meant that cause he does anti-music he has to be anti-nationalist, antifa etc. - Yet, anyone who doesnt use political contexts doesnt mean he is apolitical. - IMO discussion about an artist's ideology is meaningless, as long as it's not included / propaganda in his work and you are annoyed by it, cant stand it. Then you can reject it and that's all, simple. Trying to find 'secret meanings' , 'hidden messages' to figure out who is what, that's a joke. Like looking for allies or enemies instead of enjoy the music, art, book.
"ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες"

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both bands new and different recordings, limited 300 cps.
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eraciator

Quote from: Theodore on November 19, 2020, 04:39:51 AM

OK, i misunderstood. Thought you meant that cause he does anti-music he has to be anti-nationalist, antifa etc. - Yet, anyone who doesnt use political contexts doesnt mean he is apolitical. - IMO discussion about an artist's ideology is meaningless, as long as it's not included / propaganda in his work and you are annoyed by it, cant stand it. Then you can reject it and that's all, simple. Trying to find 'secret meanings' , 'hidden messages' to figure out who is what, that's a joke. Like looking for allies or enemies instead of enjoy the music, art, book.

I think it's naive to think that art is completely detached from the politics (and sexual proclivities, tastes, neuroses) of the artist. So these connections are interesting to speculate about.

Huge amounts of energy is expended on looking for secret meaning in, say, Whitehouse material and this is part of the fun.

Join Gero and support your local Antifa!

JLIAT





Mattin - from http://www.mattin.org/essays/THESES_ON_NOISE.html

"What the fuck is Noise?
Precisely because of its indeterminacy noise is the most sensuous human activity /
practice. To try to fix it or to make it a genre is as fucked up as believing in
democracy.
To say "this is good Noise" or "that is bad Noise" is to miss the point.
Noise without meaning nor finality is revolutionary as long as it does not support
anything or anybody..."

A book

http://www.tenstakonsthall.se/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Noise__Capitalism_Mattin__Anthony_Iles_eds.pdf

And of course there are others... of a different hue...   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyd_Rice



twistedknister

#265
I guess here's a "nice" overview of all the items you never received from Juntaro.

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/541347433

I wouldn't be surprised if it is somehow listed by himself.
Ironically it doesn't even include the shaking box replica which surely financed him a couple of months rent for nothing.

Also the inundow guy is listing stuff all the time most likely on behalf, like this box:
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b538005348

Maybe mirroring one's own stupidness is another "great" concept of Gero v.2. Maybe the "great" concept is the scam.
But really.... Fuck this.

Eloy

I hadn't seen this before:



Found on Amazon.jp.

Online translation from this page:

"DEMO 001 (1989, 60 minutes, 3,400 yen, limited to 300, VIDEODOROME)
Recorded live at Inkstick Shibaura Factory on March 4th of the same year. An omnibus work produced by contemporary artist Taisuke Morishita, along with The Gerogerigegege, Ecstasy, Emergency Stairs, and Yayoi Kusama."


On the webpage of one of the bands (G-Schmitt) appears a different information:

"21th July '88
Live at Inkstick Shibaura"


Not listed on Discogs and I haven't found material on Youtube.

Balor/SS1535

Any thoughts on the new "releases"?  Aside from the cd that came out in March, there have been a series of strange "object" releases that have come out over the last year, ranging from box sets packaging tapes with dentures and pulled teeth, to, just posted today, recordings coming with broken instruments that were apparently used live.

FreakAnimalFinland

That is perhaps as GEROGERIGEGE as the great noise things were, but I guess it is that both Gerogerigegege changed, but also world around it changed a lot. So when you got bunch of releases, that are ltd 1 copy, and image posted at social media for instant likes.... pfff.. well, all that mystery that was in flexidisc bonfire, empty c-0 tape box shakerbox and stuff like that, can not be reached. Or lets say recordings. Old 7" with audio from old reel-to-reel tape Juntaro recorded as kid. Eerie, utterly bizarre release. Fantastic to even listen to. Then some of more recent "lets make digital loops out of funk songs" and whatever...  Unfortunately zero spirit what make such bizarre idea good when it also sounded good. Gero remains among favorites, but it is very clear where I don't even have to draw line of what to buy and what not. Idea of buying the new thing doesn't even cross my mind really.
I do have the 10xCD set on Urashima placed among "to be listened". That too, would have been sort of old school crazy-gero idea, unless now it is kind of one of the many CD boxsets looking the same. So if you got 10xCD box of Merzbow that is actually brilliant release, not sure is Gero such thing, or rather conceptual piece? Remains to be seen...
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Balor/SS1535

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on September 13, 2022, 08:47:09 AM
That is perhaps as GEROGERIGEGE as the great noise things were, but I guess it is that both Gerogerigegege changed, but also world around it changed a lot. So when you got bunch of releases, that are ltd 1 copy, and image posted at social media for instant likes.... pfff.. well, all that mystery that was in flexidisc bonfire, empty c-0 tape box shakerbox and stuff like that, can not be reached.

Not just releases either for this.  Back in February, Juntaro posted some fan mail he had received asking about the whereabouts of Gero 30 to the Facebook page, but then totally ignored all the comments wondering about the same thing.  Just posting the question, no answers.  It's one thing when questions like that play out through zines and forums, but trying to pass it off as "mysterious" on social media doesn't work.