(don't tell me what I should write, but how I should listen to the album)
― Tim, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
A collection of beautiful sounds, arranged so aggressively, and with such staccato abruptness, as to render them unenjoyable.
Their music does leave me with the feeling that I could grow to "get" it, although I probably haven't got the patience / time at the moment.
Good luck with the review!
― Nick, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zebedee, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 11:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
i find Asa-Chang & J both "distinct" and "compelling"(& have played some of their tracks in my radio shows),so i'm kinda curious to see what was your opinion in the end...
― t\'\'t (t''t), Thursday, 12 December 2002 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 24 January 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM!
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 1 May 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 1 May 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Tuesday, October 22nd, ISSUE [in Brooklyn] is pleased to present esteemed Japanese band Asa-Chang & Junray on their first visit to the U.S. Drawing on material from the projects entire discography, Asa-Chang performs as a trio with Yoshihiro Goseki (clarinet, flute), Anzu Suhara (violin), and the Jun-Ray Tronics soundsystem.
― mick signals, Saturday, 28 September 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
BID FOR BLAB
― mark s, Saturday, 28 September 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Hana is the best track of the 00s and you had all better be voting for it
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 28 September 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
It’s one of those rare tracks with basically no parallels in any genre
― frogbs, Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
"minna no jun ray" is the album to pick up if you can.
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 30 September 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
HOLY SHIT.
i have been trying to remember the name of this group for years....was obsessed with Jun Ray Song Chang for the first year or two of undergrad studies, gave the CD to someone, and have had weird reminiscences of "Hana" ever since. for years i thought i was just remembering something poorly from the Popp/Toyoda "So" collaboration or a Tujiko Noriko track, but no...this exists. first time I've heard "Hana" in more than ten years, certainly. blowing my mind.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 30 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Dammit, it is with great disappointment that ISSUE announces that ASA-CHANG & Junray have canceled their U.S. tour due to personal complications.
― mick signals, Friday, 18 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
This sucks, also they don't seem to have made the top 100 tracks of the 2000s, which is wrong and bad.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link