Middle Pillar Presents’ latest compilation is an exploration of the experimental Japanese dance theatre. Butoh is an interpretation of modern Japanese dance, exploring the beauty in what is malformed and horrific in humanity. While most of what has been released on the Middle Pillar Presents label has been ethereal in nature, it is with this compilation that we hoped to add a rhythmic nature to that aesthetic in order to explore dramatic movement and dance in this dark context. To that end, Middle Pillar has assembled exclusive material or mixes from its known roster of artists which include A Murder of Angels, The Machine in the Garden, The Unquiet Void, The Mirror Reveals, as well as other eclectic bands whose artistry would compliment the aesthetic. This includes material from Kobe, Mors Syphilitica, Sumerland, Thread, Wench, and Zoar, some of whom will be releasing material on through Middle Pillar in the near future. The album opens and closes with the aggressive primal drumming of Kobe, establishing the tone of a theatre performance with a prologue and epilogue of the Japanese dance. In between we are exposed to equal parts of experimental landscapes and darkly driven forces which belie the nature of a world we have been born into and which we continue to create. "We are the erotic as well as the ascetic, the grotesque and beautiful, the fragmented ritualized and improvised whole. We experience the medium and world beyond our bodies not through stagnant objectification, but rather through intense mutual sensation within the movement of the dance." - BUTOH
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