nthWORD Recommends: Ikue Mori's Painted Desert

Ikue Mori is a composer / improvisor / performer based in NYC. Originally from Tokyo, she quickly established herself as a NO WAVE pioneer in the late seventies with her band DNA, which included Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright.

Unfortunately, her epic 1997 release Painted Desert featuring Robert Quine and Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, The Rootless Cosmopolitans) is no longer available from record label Avant (Japan,) and my copy seems to have gone missing from my lending library years ago. Here's the good news: you can listen to the tracks at last.fm or sample for a $1.20 purchase ($0.15 per song) with a $20 membership at mp3skyline.com.

Visit Perfect Sound Forever to check out a very interesting interview with this "relatively unknown genius" from November 1997.

posted by nthWORD at 10:11 AM