AUBE / METALIVE

This CD consists of 3 tracks that AUBE generated using sounds of metal in live.
Two of them are remastered works of materials appeared in smaller edition years ago.

The first track was recorded at Seehaus Club, Plauen, Germany in 1997.
It is a documentation during the first European tour of AUBE, and has once been included
in a split CD-R with Source Direkt, which was specially added to a split single by same combination.

In spite of public appearance of the music in such a small number of edition,
the music is important since it exhibits quite unique side of AUBE never expressed elsewhere.
The term "Heavy-Metalic Minimal Ambient" should fit for the music to be expressed.
Sound movement in it reminds us of "Vermiculation" of some internal organs.
The organs should be made with sound, metal and spirit.

The second track comes from the 2nd benefit concert for supporting people
suffered from 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake at Yamamura Salon, Ashiya, Japan in 1998.
This is a remastered track of live-recorded music which was published twice in the past.

The first medium was a split cassette with Nagisa Ni Te
[G.R.O.S.S./Yamamura Salon/Org Records、GRYS03/ORGCS-2].
It was made in limited edition of 117 on May 3rd, 1999 as a gift to audiences
coming to the 3rd benefit concert at Yamamura Salon.

The second medium for this tune was one of AUBE Live CD-R Series entitled "MDML98"
{G.R.O.S.S.、GRL-005] in limited edition of 150, published in 2001.
The track was entitled "Metalmolification" in this occasion.
The music reflects "Floating Spirit of Metal", and would be most appropriate as
an embodiment of "Electronic Zen", a term with which European people expressed AUBE music.

Through 2 times of remastering, the music appeared with no specific title in this DC.
The remastering would be a process to change the existence of music itself.

The 3rd track has never been appeared on any recorded medium in public.
The origin of music was recorded in live during the 2nd European tour of AUBE in 1998.
The location of the recording was C.U.B.A., Munster, Germany.
An excerpt of music was remastered and appeared here.

This cool track represents another phenomenon intimating the concept of "Electronic Zen".
Metal sounds are metamorphosed from organic pulses reminding us of blood flow
to some floating of spirits - the spirits of metals.
Let us play this tune in a midsummer night.
It might recall inner power from dark side of your brain.


The illustration used on this CD should be mentioned.
The illustrator who did surprising jobs for the outer/inner cover and
the label of the CD is Yuji Kaida.

He is an absolute one of the leading illustrators for Japanese SF and monster stuffs.
Among the outstanding works of Kaida, cover illustrations of packages for
GUNDAM plastic models might symbolize his passion and skill.
The number of illustrations for GUNDAM model packages
is apparently over one hundred.

Kaida listened to the AUBE music in this CD and created the image on the cover.
It is a pure result from his imagination and meditation induced
through the listening experience.

The image looks like a scene of prophecy.
The metal-like object is floating in spite of its heaviness as a material.
The power making it float might be a cluster of idea generated from residents in the urban.
The floating should be a result of will of people minding the change of the urban.
And the object itself looks like a brain.



Please enjoy this CD as the 2nd release from NEUREC,
following the compilation CD "AUBE, Nagisa Ni Te, Naoki Zushi/Orbital Confluence".



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