Ruins + 梅津和時
『Ruins + 梅津和時』
cassette
(F.M.N. Sound Factory, 1994)
Today's jukebox entry is from a live cassette released by the Japanese prog punk duo powerhouse Ruins in-between their third and forth albums, Graviyaunosch and Hyderomastgroningem. 梅津和時 is saxophonist Kazutoki Umezu, but I must confess I know nothing about him other than his bio is impressive, and his playing on this release is ferocious.
The studio version of B.U.G.
originally appeared on Ruins III, the first full-length Ruins record. It's available as a bonus track (remixed, however) on the Shimmy-Disc release of the second Ruins album, Stonehenge. It's a little over one third as long as the version presented here, however, as they really stretched their improv muscles on this date with 梅津和時.
Funny aside: When we first got Stonehenge at my college radio station, on LP, I thought B.U.G.
was skipping, and actually got up from my desk to check the record player.
