Quote from: smegma200000 on June 24, 2013, 10:24:39 PM
Don't know if his name has been brought up already but Jun Konagaya (GRIM, White Hospital) Would be cool!
yes, i suggested him - i'd love to learn more about the man himself and those projects in his own words!
it was great to hear he's active as GRIM again after the surprise concert announcement in 2010, and now an excellent new album 'Psycho Sun' is out on Steinklang (Austria). highly recommended!
http://www.steinklang.at/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6711&language=enmp3 of track excerpts :
http://www.steinklang.at/GRIM-medley.mp3upcoming : WHITE HOSPITAL reissue!!! i assume it'll be both their records together ('Holocaust' 12" and 'Merry Xmas' 7" for those who don't know them). this is a big deal to me as i've always loved the records but have never been lucky enough (or rich enough in the case of 'Holocaust'!) to own the originals. it's perfectly clear they needed to be reissued properly and i'm glad to see it's finally happening. hopefully with bonus material too which the label blurb indicates, but maybe it wasn't relevant to WH?
"What Steinklang presents You here is the next REVOLUTION after the brilliant revival of Japans Ritual Industrial legend VASILISK. "Psycho Sun" is the first new album of Japans Noise-Pioneers GRIM since 27 years and their sound did not loose a single quantum of power in all those years! This is PURE GRIM, like three decades before!
In the mid 80ies GRIM released three incredible milestones of Industrial Noise music, the LP "Folk Music", as well as the 7" "Amaterasu" and the more folky 12" "Message". These three releases always were and still are the "holy grail" amongst the most wanted collectors-items of this genre.
Short history: GRIM as well as VASILISK developed out of the legendary Industrial duo WHITE HOSPITAL (aka Jun Konagaya and Tomo Kuwahara). Both artists were mainly inactive over the last 25 years and now both felt the sparkle to start again doing music, but not like most other "re-starters", who are just a pale shade from their earlier times - GRIM and VASILISK are doing the same fantastic music now, than they did in their early years!
Steinklang will soon re-release all early VASILISK and WHITE HOSPITAL material + bonus on CD and LP."
i can't wait!
also, here's footage of the GRIM gig from 2010 (Shinjuku Urga Oct 18th 2010)
Pt.1 :
http://youtu.be/QJm3uMaP1u8Pt.2 :
http://youtu.be/cKohy7KShyQPt.3 :
http://youtu.be/adpOCwPLnEgthere's more GRIM footage on there, possibly of the same gig and better than the above, but i've not watched it all yet.