Re: [microsound] women in electronic music

[yatra arts <yatra-arts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

be careful giving info on Tenno - they ain't microsound enough for some. How are you doing? Would be nice o see you again. Best, Praveer
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  From: jduncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  To: microsound 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:54 AM
  Subject: RE: [microsound] women in electronic music


  >Where to I find out more info on this Tenno?

  "Tenno" is the title of the LP by Noise, released on Pinacotheca in the
  early 1980's.

  Noise is the name for the duo, or project, of Omura Reiko and Kudo Tori,
  started several years before they were married.  Reiko sang; Tori played
  keyboards.  They recorded that one LP and performed live in Tokyo a number
  of times, at least twice on the same night as Haino Keiji and Shiraishi
  Tamio.

  When we met and became friends, Reiko had been performing for several years
  in an SM hotel, a private act where she'd occupy a small room and whip
  herself, wearing a long, loose-fitting black leather dress she'd sewn
  herself, as clients watched through a peephole in the door.  When Noise
  performed, she would always wear that same dress.  Tori had been playing
  solo and in a variety of bands, including a loosely organized
  quasi-orchestra called A-Musik.  He contributed a refined sense of music to
  Noise, Reiko brought its soul: a quiet, lonely, breathtakingly haunting
  quality in her voice that never failed to turn a night otherwise full of
  flailing amped-up sonic assaults into something else entirely, something
  unforgettable.

  In the mid-80's, soon after their child was born, Reiko and Tori became
  Jehovah's Witnesses and, as often happens to new parents, went into a sort
  of seclusion. At that time, just when interest in a re-release of "Tenno"
  was spreading, Reiko especially felt that all the music they'd made should
  be somehow taken off the face of the planet.

  Fortunately Reiko and Tori have worked through that, and have started
  making music again.  Since the mid-1990's they've been recording and
  performing under the name -- forgive my diminishing near-term memory --
  ___(something)___ ___(something)___ Shabazz.  A one-page article on them
  ran in The Wire in late 1999 or 2000.



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