Masonna Vs. Bananamara
Label | Urashima – UMA 157 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono |
Country | Italy |
Released | 14 Feb 2022 |
Genre | Electronic |
Style | Noise, Avantgarde |
'Masonna Vs. Bananamara,' Masonna's second release, was originally issued, of course, on Vanilla Records in 1989 in a tiny vinyl edition of 290 copies. Given its iconic status and rarity, it's little wonder that it currently commands heavy figures on the secondary market. In classic DIY form, it was recorded at home by Masonna on a variety of instruments, with hallucinatory vocals, and used no mixing and overdubbing, rendering a startlingly visceral and dense effect. Across the album's two sides - containing a mind boggling 29 tracks - Masonna transforms his voice into noise, feeding the microphone back through a process of extreme distortion. His shouts become clipped bursts of overloaded sound, doubled and extended by a delay that displace the sounds into stuttered blasts of static, heavily underscored by explosive blistering guitars, and cascades of electronic noise, culminating as one of the most striking and emotive gestures in the entire genre of noise.
A1 | Soqlueit | 1:07 |
A2 | Dejkt Boaamk | 1:24 |
A3 | Kekoold | 1:10 |
A4 | Jom Vzu | 1:42 |
A5 | Bquqe | 1:03 |
A6 | Dk Sv We | 1:01 |
A7 | Sqreedic | 0:37 |
A8 | Pacpldao | 1:00 |
A9 | Zbiv | 1:10 |
A10 | Yahefb Uo | 0:58 |
A11 | Mannoropd | 0:49 |
A12 | Astomquq | 1:34 |
A13 | Nwse A Bok | 0:52 |
A14 | Xois Jarbk | 1:39 |
B1 | Noskl In Ana | 1:52 |
B2 | Baimn Lamx | 1:06 |
B3 | Qulqulaap | 0:53 |
B4 | Derolinji-M | 0:45 |
B5 | Bboldaz Ans | 0:55 |
B6 | Sakoooin | 0:43 |
B7 | D.Qc | 0:35 |
B8 | Bowzyo | 0:46 |
B9 | Bkrk Ak | 1:29 |
B10 | ------------ | 0:45 |
B11 | Sawwntl | 0:59 |
B12 | Yayyzu | 0:54 |
B13 | Comyo Qusw | 1:03 |
B14 | Lako | 1:09 |
B15 | 57 120 72-01 | 1:31 |
Originally released on Vanilla Records in 1989.
Deluxe vinyl LP version. Limited edition to 299 copies.