Japan'archives mailorderKan Mikami & Mamer 3LP box / 2CD Da gan Qing – Badhead
Released on an obscure label and almost impossible to find outside of China. The lendary Mikami Kan met Mamer, respectively playing guitar and electronics. What an alienish meeting and nicely recorded. Ferocious, unexpected, some fmaous songs are almost impossible to recognize.
We only have a few, the 3 LP box is numbered to 500 (super heavy) – 120€
2CD set 36€
Tabata Mitsuru & Shoji Hano CD Meeting – UFO creations
fter performing together with many legendary artists, such as 近藤等則 Kondo Kazunori , 阿部薫 Kaoru Abe, Peter Brotzman, Derek Bailey… Now with domestic artists such as 林栄一 Eiichi Hayashi, 中尾憲太郎 Kentaro Nakao, 類家心平 Shinpei Ruike, 加藤一平 Ippei Kato, Dare Devil Band (+ 河端一 Makoto Kawabata & 津山篤 Atsushi Tsuyama)…
The improvisation drummer, Shoji Hano, continue to explore the endless of free improvisation.
Used to be in many Japanese lengendary underground rock bands with all different genres, as Boredoms, ZENI GEVA, YBO2, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, etc…
Based on his experience traveling around the world, he continue to play in Missing Heads, RQRQ, Lemossours, and many other bands.
Mitsuru Tabata is a full-time guitarist who keep focus in improvisation conversations with other musicans and solo performances.
Ltd to 100 22€
Masami Kawaguchi & Max Devereaux CD Collapse on the Horizon – UFO Creations
The collaboration between American guitarist Max Devereaux and Japanese guitarist Kawaguchi Masami began in 2021, when Devereaux first encountered Kawaguchi’s work and reached out to express admiration and interest in collaboration. During a subsequent tour of Japan, Devereaux invited Kawaguchi to his live performances, fostering an early rapport and mutual curiosity that would later inform their music.
These initial exchanges—both in letters and in shared presence—laid the foundation for a deeply attentive, improvisational partnership.
Ltd to 100 22€
Dare Devil Band CD The First Recording of the New Era – UFO Creations
Shoji Hano + Makoto Kawabata + Atsushi Tsuyama – Ltd to 100
23€
Suishou No Fune CD 1st – UFO creations
The 1st album officially re-released after 22 years!
The starting of the legendary psychedelic band of the P.S.F. era!!
Included two bassist from 裸のラリーズ (Les Rallizes Denudes), 高田清博 (Takada “Doronco” Kiyohiro) & 高橋耀櫂 (Takahashi Yokai, R.I.P.
CD 23€
CD + mini CDR bonus LTD with Mark Anderson to 15
35€
la scène 裸身 2CD ‘Futaishitsu Souzou’ – Inner Pleasure
Second album by this Japanese duo made up of female vocalist and bassist Saya Mei and male guitarist Eiji Hashizume..
“la scène” is a word the band uses to represent the Japanese word “裸身 ,” meaning “naked body”. Using simple and subtle expression, they express the universal and infinite place which connects our senses in this world to worlds beyond. A duo made up of vocalist/bassist Saya and guitarist Eiji, the band’s sound approaches slowcore and acid folk, with slow-motion dreamscape guitars and whispery vocals. Hiroshi from Asylum is playing on some tracks and all along the 2 CDs, they also use a wider instrumentation suchas percussion, organ and drums. The music is somewhere Nagisa Ni Te , Les Rallizes Denudes but it’s produced with great care and doesn’ t have the opacity of many Japanese related psych bands.
We love that band, it took 7 years to make but it’s hard to not return to their music after 2 hours. Comes in a gatefold with lyrics.
23€
Chi To Shizuku CD Ethos, Pathos, and Logos – UFO Creations
ltd to 100
-This work is sacred, mournful, mysterious, romantic, and fantastical, embodying a balance of strength and tenderness. -It merges melodic and experimental elements, combining orchestration with free improvisation, existing in a nebulous space between psychedelic, enka, and power pop genres !
-It represents a Japanese dark psychedelic ballad spirit, very similar to the An’archives LP
23€
Sayozoku CDR 2025.11.30 love – Tall grass
Duo with Yonju Miyaoka and Sayaka Tenjin
with guests such Harutaka Mochizuki, Daisuka Takaoka…
Between free folk, ritual incantations, slowly they are finding their voice & gardening their secret planet.
11€
DUB-HEI & NEW CHANELL + JUKE/19. 2CD boxset Live rec. at TAD 2023.9.18 – Flying Saucer
This two-CD set captures the performance of “Dub-Hei & New Chanel + JUKE/19.”, which took place at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art on the final day of the “Shinro Ohtake” exhibition’s touring tour, which began at the National Museum of Modern Art in 2022.
“Dub-Hei & New Chanel” is both an art piece, composed of multiple collages on a three-dimensional stage-like structure, and a musical performance device, with guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and turntables all remotely controlled to function and perform like a band. The entire stage is transformed into a stunning sound system, a gigantic work of art. Previously, this system featured ∈Y∋ (BOREDOMS) performing with Destroy All Monsters, and his collaboration with Kazuhisa Uchihashi was also released as the CD “Uchidub.”
During the recorded performance, Toshiaki Toyama, a close friend who had been with Shinro Ohtake since the early ’80s in JUKE/19., brought a set of modified instruments he had made himself and intruded into Dub Hei & New Chanel’s performance. The resulting performance plunged into a sonic world like a black hole, swallowing everything up, something never before possible with Dub Hei & New Chanel alone. It was a powerful performance that seemed to condense the history of Ohtake’s music, beginning with JUKE/19., into a mass of sound saturated with industrial textures, complemented by Shinro Ohtake’s performance, creating a chaotic soundscape and an overwhelming acoustic space.
38€
Kazuki Tomokawa CD Muzan No Bi – Modest Launch
Essential reissue of 1986 album and later firstly reissued on PSF records and started a long collaboration between Tomokawa and Ikeezumi’s label. Known as “Beauty without mercy”, this album was mainly dedicated to Tomokawa’s brother and spleen. Just essential !
Comes in a lovely gatefold jacket with obi
18€
24€ signed copy by Tomokawa
Minazuki (Andrew Chalk + Jonathan Coleclough + Hitoshi Kojo) CD + book (16 x 22 cm) From dust to stars – Omninemento
From Dust to Stars centres on a shared time of music-making in June 2006 at Andrew Chalk’s studio in Hull, northern England—a time that later formed the core of a work shaped over the ensuing years through Kojo’s editing.
In Chalk’s wooden studio—its atmosphere shaped by soft humidity and gentle resonance—the three musicians let the music emerge at the pace of their breathing. What unfolded shared qualities with none of their solo works, yet carried traces of each: Chalk’s strings carried a warm wavering that embraced the resonance of the wood; Coleclough subtly altered the density of the air; Kojo, centring his interplay with Chalk’s strings, folded in overtones and found-object sounds that responded to the flow of the session.
British and Japanese sensibilities surface in equal measure. Pieces shaped by an East Asian sense of time-interval contain a wavering that could not have arisen from British musicians alone, while sustained tones conveying the subtle blending of grey skies and light carry a colouration distinct from Japanese performers. When melodies appear, the two elements blend into an unplaceable, mythical folk music.
Each track bears a name associated with rain—echoing the nuanced vocabularies that both Japan and northern England possess for describing rainfall. Through additional recording in Switzerland (2009) and final editing and mastering in Belgium (2025) by Kojo, the influences of three places and many years are gently interwoven into the music.
From the twenty images included in the photobook, eight were selected and printed by Kojo,
using hand-applied sensitiser, exposure, bleaching, and catechin toning.
Ltd to 100
25€
Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi : sensitive – An’archives
LP ltd to 300, black vinyl, 2 color silkscreened jacket with obi (Dark green, dark red & green)
Printed by Alan Sherry
Release date : Dec 12th, 2025
Notes by Jon Dale
Digital on Sakaguchi Bandcamp : https://enjyaqu.bandcamp.com/
You can stream one track there : https://soundcloud.com/user-250085008/metatoxic
An’archives is proud to present [sensitive], a new album, and the first solo vinyl release, by Japanese keyboardist and synth player, Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi. A deftly assembled suite of glistening electronic tonalities, [sensitive] is the latest in a lengthy run of excellent, idiosyncratic albums by Sakaguchi. A low-key yet productive artist, Sakaguchi has released banks of solo titles via his own Bandcamp page, and is also an in-demand improvisor for electronics: see, for example, recent collaborations with Yoshiki Ichihara (TO(R)RI INFRANTA, Ftarri, 2025), Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (non equal mad, self-released, 2020), and the [-] trio with Yamamoto and Uchihashi Kazuhisa (self-titled, Modern Obscure, 2023).
[sensitive] is a startling album for many reasons, not least its rich attention to detail. Sakaguchi’s ear is sensitized to the complexity of electronic sonority, something he’s developed through decades of performance and improvisation, though he’s not limited to that language. “I mainly use multiple synthesizers and process the sounds with effects,” he clarifies, detailing his approach to his music. “I also use a lot of acoustic sounds such as field recordings and percussion; sometimes I also use sounds such as prepared piano.”
Indeed, you can hear this see-sawing balance between the electronic and acoustic written across [sensitive] – see the activated cymbals that twist and stutter through the first half of “metatoxic”, which are soon replaced by a similar stream of burbling synth-flow. The opening “sensitive rot” folds field recordings into Sakaguchi’s electronic kit to such a degree that the differing forms dissolve into each other; on “green shrine”, the field recordings are more present, yet still poetically framed, taken as they are “from the mountains of my hometown, Yawata City, Kyoto,” Sakaguchi explains.
The tender balance achieved by Sakaguchi as he moves between practices, tonalities and temporalities helps manifest the guiding conceptual force behind [sensitive], where Sakaguchi explores a cleansing reverie. “What I wanted to portray with this album was to create an album of sounds that shattered and reassembled my current ‘sense’ and ‘toxins’,” he nods, “along with the ‘nature’ around me. Electronic sounds, our bodies, the environment around us, and nature all blend.”
From there, Sakaguchi attempts a transformation, or transmutation – an alchemical process of exchange. “I am attempting to explore whether it might be possible for the sounds to come closer to each other,” he concludes, “or perhaps even to interchange places.” On the five pieces that comprise [sensitive], you can hear this fusing and exchange. Inhabiting similar spaces as the music of Nuno Canavarro, Asmus Tietchens, Omit, and other like-minded visionaries, [sensitive] traverses curious, quixotic terrain between electronic composition, electro-acoustics, and improvisation.
25€
Taj Mahal Travellers CD July15, 1972 – Showboat
Formed in 1969 by “six meta-music creators & one electronic engineer”, this group leaded by Takehisa Kosugi created stunning cosmic music which was always entirely improvised.
What a great and still stunning album, time flies as I’ve been playing this one for almost 3 decades.
Only a few copies available, comes in a nice and heavy gatefold paperjacket
25€
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