ASTRO - LIVE AT MURYOKU MUZEN TEMPLE - LP

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Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. Astro, of course, is the analog/space project of Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary
Japanese group C.C.C.C. This limited vinyl only release was created using ring modulator and vocals which are
rare these days in Astro recordings. Cover art designed by Important.
ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa’s solo project. He is a founding member of the Japanese noise group C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he made the group C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai.
Hasegawa began his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 and continued playing in C.C.C.C.
Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations drifting between
dreamy spaced out bliss and full on waterfalls of beautiful noise.

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