C.C.C.C. – Reflexive Universe [CS]

"Recorded live at Maya in Kobe on 15 September 1991 - with only Mayuko Hino on electronics and voice and Hiroshi Hasegawa on synthesizer and electronics - Reflexive Universe strips C.C.C.C. to its core and finds, in that reduction, something more concentrated and more volatile than the full ensemble.

The choice of John C. Lilly's CCCC as a name pointed toward a practice in which sound was genuinely conceived as a system of feedback between the body, technology, and the cosmos - Hino's voice dissolving into electronics and returning transformed, Hasegawa's synthesizer generating fields that shift and breathe and fold back on themselves. On this Vanilla Records cassette, the two members achieve a focused intensity: immersive noise ambiances and captured sonic fragments manipulated and infiltrated by electronic pulses, building toward an ecstatic sonic environment that drowns the ear in sheets of detail."

Vanilla Records, 1991