Geinoh Yamashirogumi

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

Ecophony Rinne
Pop Used - LP VIH 28257 Invitation
Mint And Rare 1986 Japan Only Original With Obi. Geinoh Yamashirogumi Is Known For Both Their Faithful Re-Creations Of Folk Music From Around The World, As Well As Their Fusion Of Various Traditional Musical Styles With Modern Instrumentation And Synthesizers. For Example, In The 1980s, MIDI Digital Synthesizers Could Not Handle The Tuning Systems Of Traditional Gamelan Music, So The Group Had To Teach Themselves How To Program In Order To Modify Their Equipment. The Album That Followed, Ecophony Rinne (1986) Was A New Direction For The Group : They Had Not Previously Incorporated Computer-Generated Sounds Into Their Work. The Success Of This Album Brought Them To The Attention Of Katsuhiro Otomo, Who Commissioned Them To Create The Soundtrack Of Akira.... more details