Various Artists-Why We Came Together...A Yakuza Compilation (1996)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Zen Guerilla, New Radiant Storm King, Lee Renaldo, Cobra Verda, Caterpillar, Refrigerator, Lettuce Prey, Lenola, Nicole Painter, The Azusa Plane, Matthew Shipp Trio, Cotillion, Jimmy Crouse, Lauren Mazzecane Connors)

Title: Why We Came Together...A Yakuza Compilation


1Zen Guerrilla–Lipstick
2New Radiant Storm King–Seasoned Professional
3Lee Ranaldo–Enroute, Loose / Heat
Guest [W/] – Epic Soundtracks
4Cobra Verde–Never My Love
5Caterpillar (3)–Nappy
6Refrigerator–Misguided Airplanes
7Lettuce Prey–Misty
8Lenola–Kegger-like
9Nicole Panter–Fuck You Punk Rock / 1977
10The Azusa Plane–Autumn Lament
11Matthew Shipp Trio–Sonic Host
12Cotillion (2)–Old And Sewn
13Jimmy Crouse–Druthers
14Loren Mazzacane Connors–Why We Came Together



Label: Yak' uz' a

Format: CD

Cat #: no. 704

Year of Release:

Country and Year of Edition Issue: 1996

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 12/5/21

Sell Price: $6.99

Discogs Last Sold: 2/20/21 $4.00

Low: $4.00

Median: $6.00

Average: $11.03

High: $45.00

Current low price: $4.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 11

Have/Want: 36/12

Where Sold: Ames, IA

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: came with zine, probably See Hear NYC or Kim's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Pretty good overview of the state of mostly experimental indie rock circa mid 90's.  This came with the Yak'uz'a zine as a CD insert.  I question whether I bothered to listen to it at the time, but I got a few listens in 25 years later.  Most of it can't be streamed, at least on Youtube.  Somebody paid $45 for this in 2012, and I don't know whether it was with the zine or not.  Recent sellers, including me, generally have it under ten bucks, and my copy of the zine was long gone having lost my "zine room" many years ago.   Downsizing is a bitch.

My favorite cut on this was a band that I was unfamiliar with, Lenola.  This has some cool guitar explosion.  Lenola were around 1994-2002 and were from New Jersey.  You also get some standard bearers like New Radiant Storm King, Lee Renaldo, Zen Guerilla and the Azusa Plane.  You also get avant standard bearers like Matthew Shipp and Lauren Mazzacane Connors.  Renaldo and Pee Wee Herman's writer Nicole Painter do some spoken word in entertaining fashion.

This stuff held up over time.  It didn't sound too pretentious or precocious, just artists generally known in their milieu doing what they do.




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