Z-Rock Hawaii
| Z-Rock Hawaii | |
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| Studio album by Z-Rock Hawaii | |
| Released | September 6, 1996 |
| Recorded | c. 1993–1996 |
| Length | 45:02 |
| Label | Nipp Guitar |
Z-Rock Hawaii is a studio album recorded by Ween in collaboration with the Japanese noise rock band Boredoms, released on September 6th, 1996.
Description and History[edit | edit source]
Ween were first made aware of Boredoms after producer Andrew Weiss took Dean Ween to attend a 1993 concert in Philadelphia. Deaner, having become a fan, met the band after a second show in Hoboken and arranged frontman Yamantaka Eye to a series of studio sessions with Ween.[1] One of Eye's previous bands, Hanatarash, had released an album that featured a song that sampled the Pod track "Strap On That Jammy Pac".[2]
The initial week-long recording sessions for the album (which took place at the same time as the Chocolate and Cheese sessions[3]) featured the Chocolate and Cheese-era lineup of Ween (Gene and Dean Ween, Weiss and occasionally Claude Coleman) with Eye, for which Eye invented several unconventional techniques, including using an "Evian bottle as a megaphone taped to a snare head with the other side mic'ed up with vibrating snares". After Eye went back to Japan, he recorded the second half of the album with Boredoms, for which Ween added overdubs after receiving the tapes.[1]
The finished album, christened Z-Rock Hawaii, was released on September 6th, 1996. Deaner later stated Eye came up with the title[1], though Eye reportedly wanted to call it WeYeN.[4] The initial "Enhanced CD" version of the album featured a collection of 25 audio snippets collectively called "The Z-Wrap", a portion of which are taken from outtakes for the album.
A follow-up collaboration between Ween and Eye alongside Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We was reportedly recorded and intended to be released on Ipecac Records in 2001,[4] though it has not seen release and its current status is unclear.
Tracklist[edit | edit source]
| 1 | Chuggin' |
| 2 | Bad to the Bone |
| 3 | In the Garden |
| 4 | Love Like Cement |
| 5 | Tuchus |
| 6 | Piledriver |
| 7 | I Get a Little Taste of You |
| 8 | God in My Bed |
| 9 | The Meadow |
| 10 | Sunset Over Osaka |
| 11 | Hexagon |
Known Personnel[edit | edit source]
Sourced from the liner notes unless otherwise stated.
- Gene Ween
- Dean Ween
- Andrew Weiss - mixing, recording engineer
- Claude Coleman
- Yamantaka Eye
- Seiichi Yamamoto - recording engineer
- Toyohito Yoshikawa
- Yoshimi P-We
- Howie Weinberg - mastering
- H Oneda - design, photography
- Gil Kuno - executive producer
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Dean Ween on Yamantaka Eye's stay at his house:
At the time, not a lot of people knew their music stateside, but the singer of the band [Yamantaka][5] Eye had released a solo album full of samples of The Pod, so we knew he was a fan. After meeting at these two shows, we arranged for him to come to our studio (we were working on Chocolate and Cheese in Pennington, NJ) and he stayed with me and my family for about a week. His English was minimal at best, and he spent the whole time at my house roughhousing with my border collie Jimmy, which I loved. He couldn't get enough of Jimmy, throwing the ball, chasing the stick, it was incredible to see, and Jimmy loved it, being a border collie and all. [...] One night, he and I were driving home at 3 A.M. and a deer jumped in front of my little Nissan. I totalled the car, and the deer lay dead, steaming in the road. Eye was going batshit, I dunno if he'd ever seen a deer in person and I was laughing my ass off, it's pretty typical around here to run into deer and I hated the car.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20130415094728/http://036271e.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2013/01/10/boredomsz-rock-hawaii/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSpzkfggH0E#t=30
- ↑ H. Shteamer, Chocolate and Cheese, p.94
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://exclaim.ca/music/article/boredoms-art_of_noise
- ↑ Referred to as "Yamatsuka" in the original post; Yamatsuka Eye is the name he was going by at the time.