Titled “A New World,” it’s full of creaking rhythms and uneasy synthesizer drones, bound together by Phew’s unmistakable vocals: dour, deep-toned and stripped of identifiable affect. This month, she releases her first solo album of original material in two decades, and it’s a late contender for most alienated record of the year. “I’ve always been like that.”Īt 56, the singer and avant-garde artist is still as unconventional as ever. “When I was at school, if the teacher told a joke and everyone else in the class laughed, I was always the one who couldn’t see what was funny,” she says. I would like it avant prog, and will edit the title to reflect this, otherwise Crossover, and if that fails Prog Related works.Įven as a child, Phew realized she was a bit different. Phew's CD, Five Finger Discount, is ranked 32nd in The Wire (magazine) top 50 records of 2010." She was founder of punk rock group Aunt Sally before. Since 1980 she has worked with musicians such as Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Jah Wobble, Bill Laswell, Anton Fier, Buckethead, Nicky Skopelitis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alexander Hacke and Jim O'Rourke. "Phew (born in September 12, 1959) is a Japanese singer working in the areas of experimental music and jazz avant-garde. Member of Aunt Sally, Big Picture, Blind Light, Most, Novo Tono, Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. My original thought (back in 2010) was Crossover, or maybe Prog Related, but Avant Prog describes the approach better. It does have avant prog qualities, and I could see her in the same category that has bands such as Aunt Sally (which she was in) and After Dinner, as well as mentioned before the likes of Art Bears (i.e. I'd describe the music as post punk experimental/ art rock with Krautrockian flavours. Little bump, as I was think about this album earlier, and decided to move this from General Music Discussions to Suggest New artists.Īny youtube vids I have embedded (but no one elses) appear as black boxes, but the whole Phew- Phew album is on youtube: She is Prog Related at least.Īnd with Otomo Yoshide's New Jazz Ensemble: In a way, she reminds me a little bit of a Japanese Laurie Anderson - kind of. As for the Phew albums, I only know her début in full, which does have a Krautrock feel, but if in a prog category, I would see Phew in Crossover (as a sort of avant pop and art rock artist). I wouldn't see it in avant prog even if it has avant-garde elements, that song is "weirder" than some other stuff off it. Īunt Sally is neat - sort of post punk/ art rock. It was locked (think I locked it before being saddened by the disinterest ), but I unlocked it before mentioning it in your topic just in case anyone might be interested. Edit 2: Figured a fix for embedding problem. Love to hear from those that already knew her music or impressions of the music for people discovering her now.ĮDIT: None of my youtube vid embeds show anymore (since today on all my browsers), and I'm getting code problems, so changed to urls, but if I edit again, the code will automatically mess up. If anyone wants her to be considered formally, I can move this thread to Suggest New Bands.EDIT: I did eventually.ĮDIT: See this for whole self-titled album, definitely listen to the whole thing I also enjoy her music under the name Phew considerably (I only recently re-discovered Phew).Īnyone else like her work? I've considered suggesting her for possible inclusion in PA before, as well as some projects she's been involved with, but instead this'll be an appreciation thread. I've enjoyed various projects she's been involved with such as Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble (I like my album of theirs very much), and Novo Tono which I find very good.
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