Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta

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Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1, 1996
Genre Noise rock
Length30:06
Label Skin Graft
Producer Steve Albini
Space Streakings chronology
7-Toku
(1994)
Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta
(1996)
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Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta is an album by Mount Shasta and Space Streakings, released on October 1, 1996 through Skin Graft Records. [2]

Space Streakings was a noise rock band from Japan formed in 1993 by four video game programmers. That year the band issued its debut album, Hatsukoi, through NUX Organization. The Space Streakings then signed with Skin Graft Records, whose attention had been piqued by the band's contribution to the Dead Tech 3: New Japanese Music compilation. In 1994, musician and music engineer Steve Albini flew to Japan in order to record the band's second album 7-Toku. Shortly after the album's release Screaming Stomach, who had grown tired of the band's cacophonous sound, left the band. After a brief tour of the United States, which resulted in a collaboration with Mount Shasta of Chicago, Space Streakings disbanded.

Skin Graft Records is an independent record label specializing in no wave and noise rock, originally based in Chicago, Illinois. The label is largely responsible for spawning "now wave" genre, an updated version of the late 1970s/early 1980s no wave movement.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Shakuhachi Surprise.

No.TitleLength
1."Swavay"4:11
2."Harduro... Deso Deso (?)"3:44
3."Shacho"3:25
4."Yadoroku Diamondo"2:23
5."Tora! Tora! Tora! Senzuri"2:59
6."Jushoku"2:28
7."Oresama "Big J""3:10
8."Nande"2:10
9."Kick on Cigarette (Kekkon Shitekure)"5:36

Personnel

Musicians
Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

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Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.

Production and additional personnel
Steve Albini American record engineer and rock musician

Steven Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums during his career.

Record producer Individual who oversees and manages the recording of an artists music

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References

  1. Howell, Stephen. "Space Streakings Sighted Over Mount Shasta". Allmusic. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
  2. Robbins, Ira (2007). "Shakuhachi Surprise". Trouser Press . Retrieved March 29, 2013.
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