Tolerance – Anonym [LP] (1979, Vanity Records)

Tolerance from Osaka made their debut for Vanity Records with 'Anonym' in 1979. A ghostly and alienating work, opaque and rarefied; a cult of minimalist electronics that sets up a hallucinatory environment, set and disintegrated by avant-garde flaws and dust of chamber music. The title is allusive to enter dark areas, extreme and glacial dislocations, impenetrable coulters and low ceilings. Ambiguous pale images spread, white lights are reflected among clusters of electric strings, distortions, voice-overs, metal drums. Shreds of Masami Yoshikawa's guitar, Junko Tange's avulsed and 'decontextualized' piano, his single-string recitation. Tolerance evokes mystery, explores ineffable abstract signs, psychological dissociations, hypnotic and oppressive nightmares (atonal recitation, heartbeats, synt, enchanted drums), condensing reality with hallucination. A programmatic alienation emanates from this vinyl, a sense of margin that frightens and plagiarizes, that subtly transmits an enveloping sense of imbalance and icy torpor. The back cover reads: "dedicated to the quiet man from a tiny girl". [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

Label: Vanity Records – vanity 0004 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: Japan 

Released: Oct 1979 

Style: Abstract, Experimental, Minimal, Minimal Wave, Industrial, Spoken Word

Tracklist:

A1 Two Owls 3:31 

A2 I Wanna Be A Homicide 2:44 

A3 Osteo-Tomy 3:45 

A4 JUIN-Irénée 4:31 

A5 Anonym 5:21 

B1 Laughiñ In The Shadows 4:53 

B2 Through The Glass 5:09 

B3 Tecno-Room 2:49 

B4 Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit 6:43 

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