Dowser / Schema 1 & 2 / All Horned Animals

Japanese outfit Dowser began as a 4-piece. In 1991, their debut release was the soundtrack for the cult cyberpunk horror flick “964 Pinocchio”. Founding member Hiroyuki Nagashima is now a professor at Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Film & New Media, where he teaches sound design. Together with fellow founder, Masateru Terai, and new member visual artist, Takashi Miyagawa, Nagashima has recorded a fresh Dowser set for local label All Horned Animals. The album, entitled “Schema 1+2”, consists of a couple of 40 minute-long cosmic collages, constructed with a combination of vintage modular – EMS and Buchla – and virtual gear. Psychedelic journeys through juxtaposed sonics. These pieces are most definitely trips. “Schema 1” moves from morphing, whistling drones, strange, alien squeaking. Machines blinking and bleeping, like robotic wildlife. Its details increasing in frequency and intensity, against a constantly shape-shifting backdrop of cut-up horns, bells and blasts of psyche…