Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! / Momma's Song
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| Label (s) | Innova Recordings | |||
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CD |
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17th |
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72:33 |
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Studio Masao, New York City |
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Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! / Momma's Song is a two-part concept album by Fred Ho . On the one hand it contains the music for the work Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! (2005), on the other hand the music for the never performed work Momma's Song , which Fred Ho understood as a tribute to Archie Shepp . The music was recorded on June 26, 2006 at Masuo Studio in New York City and was released in 2006 by Innova Recordings .
background
Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!
Fred Ho created an extensive body of avant-garde operas and music theater pieces, which he alternately called Manga music / theater or opera , Martial Arts opera or Living comic books . The last stage production that Fred Ho was able to realize was the manga opera Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! , which he and Ruth Margraff understood as an homage to the Yellow exploitation series of the Japanese manga cinema Lone Wolf & Cub of the 1970s by Kazuo Koike and Gōseki Kojima . For the instrumentation of the music for this performance, Ho used the 20-sided bass koto (played by Yumi Kurosawa ) and the Japanese shakuhachi and fue flute ( Masaru Koga ). Fred Ho wrote Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon! commissioned with Ruth Margraff after Margraff received the NYSCA Individual Artist Award . It premiered on April 29 and 30, 2005 as part of the New York Japan Society's Cool Japan: Otaku Strikes exhibition, directed by Sonoko Kawahara. The music of Fred Ho's Afro-Asian band is a combination of jazz and traditional Japanese music . (Composed by Fred Ho).
Momma's song
Ho had commissioned the author Christine Stark to write a “cosmic” -epic poem as a revival of the work Blasé , which Archie Shepp had published in 1969 as part of the Black Artists Movement . The newly created work is dedicated to the 69 prostitutes on the East Side of Vancouver , mostly women of the First Nation , 22 of whom were murdered by the pig farmer Robert Pickton .
Track list
- Fred Ho: Deadly She-Wolf Assassin At Armageddon! / Momma's Song (Innova Recordings 788)
- Deadly She-Wolf Assassin At Armageddon (Soundtrack Recording) (52:12)
1 The Way of the Wolf 4:50
2 Imperial Intrigue 2:00
3 Enter: The She-Wolf Secret Weapon 3:05
4 'Round and' Round Hades We Go! 5:01
5 In the Shadow of the Wolf 2:16
6 Nightmares 3:09
7 In A Silent Way I Seek My Prey 5:25
8 The Coming of the Three Hurricanes 1:00
9 Bok Mei: The White Lotus of the King Kong Palm of Death 7:01
10 Colonel Ulysses Sam Armageddon 4:27
11 Qaseem the Killing Machine 6:13
12 The Storm of the She-Wolf 2:06
13 We Have Arrived in Hell 4:20
14 Pick Up The Sword to Defeat The Sword: End of the Assassin 1:13
- Momma's Song (20:21)
15 Exposition / Momma's Song (Shepp) 14:44
16 Development / Momma's Song (Shepp) 4:41
17 Transcedence Coda 0:56
All other tracks were composed by Fred Ho. The lyrics for tracks 15 and 16 are by Christien Stark.
Editor's note
The album is designed in the style of a manga ; In addition to background information on the two works, it contains the complete text and illustrations by Mac McGill .
reception
The New York Times critic praised Fred Ho's jazz-oriented soundtrack of which he could be proud. The newspaper also said: Fred Ho composed the jazzy score, a surprising fit with the period setting .
The writer of Scientific Soul wrote that Fred Ho's extremely talented team unleashed a music / theater work of dazzling drama and emotional power. The last collaboration between Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff is a daring and imaginative homage to the manga film Lone Wolf and Cub , which has also inspired many other adaptations in the past decades. Deadly She-Wolf literally explodes with a wild stylistic mixture of Japanese Nō theater and contemporary anime and manga influences with unique multi- martial arts and swordsman choreography and a wonderful arrangement that combines traditional Japanese music and soul jazz .