K2/Torturing Nurse - Genpatsu Mafia Conference (PLACENTA RECORDINGS #218 - 2013)
Japanese Noise legend Kimihide Kusafuka aka K2 and Shanghai, China harsh noise renegades Torturing Nurse team up for a long awaited/much needed collaboration/split album. Recorded in 2011, this slab of pathological harsh noise de-compositions is sure to blow your speakers, piss off your parents, and give your brain a DMT like jolt of energy and spastic, life changing anxiety. For fans of: Merzbow, Masonna, Einstrutzede Neubauten, and Maurizio Bianchi.
1. Kinky Lies (16’18”) : by K2
2. Long Life But Slow Death (16’52”) : by K2 with Torturing Nurse
3. Form Own Party (17’52”) : by Torturing Nurse
4. Existential Dead End (21’44”) : by Torturing Nurse with K2
Dedicated to all victims who suffer from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.
All titles de-composed & played by K2 & Torturing Nurse
Torturing Nurse/K2’s sound raw materials used in #2
K2: Recorded at ONCOSONIK LABORATORY, Jul. 2011 - Mixed by K. Kusafuka, on Aug.09, 2011
K2: Kimihide Kusafuka: junk electronics, CD-R (sound raw materials), KORG MS-20, contact mic, voices, MTR.
Torturing Nurse: Recorded at 03, May. 2008- Jul. 2011 - Mixed & mastered by Junky, on Sept.22, 2011
Torturing Nurse: Jiadie: voice Youki: electronics/voice Junky: electronics/voice
K2 thanks to Junky(Torturing Nurse), GX, AMK, Y.Yoshida, T.Mikawa & F.Kosakai, M.Okubo, Y.Kikuchi, and all people who support me,
Dedicated to all victims who suffer from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.
No computer, No MIDI, No metal junks !
(C) 2011 K2 and Torturing Nurse
(P) 2013 Placenta Recordings
K2 contact :
KINKY MUSIK INSTITUTE (K2)
Eminence Nagakubo 303
1077-42 Shimonagakubo, Nagaizumi-cho
Sunto-gun, Shizuoka 411-0934, Japan
k.kusafuka@scchr.jp
kinkyk2@i.softbank.jp
myspace.com/k2noise
TORTURING NURSE contact:
junkyyy@hotmail.com
myspace.com/torturingnurseforever
facebook.com/torturingnurseforever
twitter.com/torturingnurse
PLACENTA RECORDINGS contact:
placentarecordings.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/placentarecordings
www.myspace.com/placentarecordings
www.soundcloud.com/placenta-recordings
K2 Bio:
"My name is Dr. Kimihide Kusafuka, a.k.a. K2. K2 is my solo noise project since 1981. I am a pathologist in Cancer Center, Japan. The musical activities as K2 divide to three period. In the first period (1981-1986) , I was related to mail art and music scene, and I had been recorded several experimental music in home studio named DARK DISCO, but I had never performed ant live shows as K2 at that time. In the second period (1993-2002), I firstly did home-recordings and made many dark ambient works from ONCOSONIK LABORATORY. But from late 1994, I collected and played metal junks with electronics and voices, which were very harsh and loud noise. I performed solo and collaborating live shows in Tokyo, Nagoya and more. US minitour was performed in 1995. Maybe, they were the most loudest sounds in the world ! In third period (from 2009 to now), I stop live shows and no use of metal junks. I use cheap game machines and vintage synth and cheap electronics, so that I home-record some loud noise works. The early works are of the scum & heavy techno/electronica entitled "Scum Techno-logy" series as K2 & AUDIO PATHOLOGIST project. But I concentrate to pure & loud noise works, entitled "Made in Erehwon" series. I am doing field recordings of construction areas and small factories. Maybe, I use such sounds and then will make my loud noise works."
Torturing Nurse Bio:
"Based in Shanghai, China, Torturing Nurse started on 2004.04.25. The band has given more than 100 performances (noise, harsh noise, improv...) and other collaborations ; published more than 200 cd's, cdr's, vinyls and tapes. They also run the noise label Shasha Records and organize the monthly noise/free/avant gigs in Shanghai called NOIShanghai."
released September 27, 2018