I was yesterday listening to VAVA KITORA. It's female duo of Sachiko + Yama-Agako. Latter ones was once interviewed by Special Interests. I often mention that she is Kosakai's wife, just as it is nice nugget of info, but Yama-Agako does her own thing apart of that. There are several curious things about Vava Kitora. At noisiest, it indeed goes into vocal drone, vocal frenzy, meets almost CCCC -esque electro oscillations, but also kind of contemporary take to... japanese folk? Could it be? Some sort of ritual music for the positive and life affirming approach. Not harsh, but for me, it is part of noise milieu as I know it.
Topic what it makes me think, is that this is really a live recording. Especially first track has audience clapping at the end. It makes me want to talk about live recordings as a part of album, which is far more common in Japanese noise than anywhere else, where most of the time they are not considered "live albums", but just albums!
Like think of just about every Incapacitants album. They are probably always live. Usually studio-live and live in front of audience on same album. It is basically most traditional form of Incapacitants to have live track as last piece of album. Hijokaidan is live noise too. Either in studio, or in front of audience. You may buy some sort of release, that is not necessarily specified to be "live album". It is album with new recordings.
Most of the early CCCC is live recordings. Solmania, Merzbow, etc.. list could go on.
I germany, Anenzephalia quite often released recordings of songs that were from gigs. Even full albums. Perhaps it makes it little different since he is indeed playing songs that later were done as "studio versions".
With noise, how do you approach live recordings? If noise is something that is always different, can the live albums be approached like people generally approach rock bands doing live albums. That generally means "only for die hard fans", hah.. Most not caring at all and avoiding any live recordings as much as possible. With noise, it would probably be different, but I do have a feeling that a lot of people carry this idea from normal music, that live album is not... "real album"? While on case of noise, it is odd idea. Perhaps if recording quality is somehow inferior, but many times it may not be.
Live recording / live album favorites?
For me, Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Genocide Organ - "remember" in particular, Anenzephalia, some earlier Whitehouse live actions,... a lot of things that rise on top of their output.
