Japan'archives mailorderLSD March LP Shindara Jigoku – 2004 – Siwarecords
New, warehouse find when LSD March were Shinsuke Michishita, Masami Kawaguchi & Ikura Takahashi
2 editions were done, this one silkscreened on black jacket was limited to 200, so price is a gift considering Siwa is a legendary label who’s has been printing for An’archives for years.
28€
Marginal Consort 3CD Box 06 06 16 (St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin) – 901 Editions
Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisational group comprised of sound artists Kazuo Imai (a student of Japanese free jazz linchpin Masayuki Takayanagi and occasional performer in both Taj Mahal Travellers and Takayanagi’s New Direction Unit), Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and Masami Tada (also in group GAP). Formed in 1997, the four members of Marginal Consort attended Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at the Bigakkō art school in Tokyo in the mid-1970s, where they teamed up with other students to record East Bionic Symphonia’s debut album “Recorded Live” in 1976.
Since its inception, each year Marginal Consort holds one (or more when invited) annual concert at spacious venues in which they perform continuously, without interruption, for over three hours. Their extended set explores forms of sound and ways of playing that never coalesce into music but create a group dynamic of ebb and flow, exploration and fluidity. Their performance, which is completely free from abstract, political or sometimes mystical ideas about improvisation, neither contraposes the immediacy of action or anonymousness of sound against music nor dramatises the dialectics between the individual and the whole. Even the general idea of the words “collective”, “improvisation” and “project” do not really tell the way they work.
30€
Maher Shalal Hash Baz CD Namba Bears – Archeion
Ltd to 200
17€
Maher Shalal Hash Baz CD + cassette (risograph-printed jacket) + partitions (A4) Namba Bears – Archeion
Cassette has some extra tracks
28€
Izumi Hirakawa LP “3” – Enban
Last album from the the musician from Hokkaido (and she’s regularly played with Ikuro Takahashi), comes in a nicely handmade jacket.
Some lovely Lo fi pop songs with piano, violin and guitar, some strange arrangements with a 80’s feeling à la Luna Park Ensemble We only have a very few ! Back in stok sold out at source for months !
38€
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€
Jac Berrocal – Vincent Epplay – Timo van Luijk LP Ste Cy – La Scie Dorée
Ste Cy, the latest studio offering from the trio of Jac Berrocal, Vincent Epplay, and Timo van Luijk, ripens like a forbidden fruit—born of an improvised instrumental session captured in the secluded hush of Kulta Saha by Timo van Luijk.
These raw recordings were later reshaped into 12 songs by Vincent Epplay at Studio Villejuif in Paris. And over it all drifts the poetry of Jac Berrocal— sensual and incendiary, seeping into the music like spice into flesh.
As always it’s superbly produced and has a surrealist and a film noir vibe.
25€
Wired (Michael Ranta &Karl-Heinz Böttner) LP Kyoto 1970 – Metaphon
Wired was an ephemeral improvisational music project formed by Michael Ranta, Karl-Heinz Böttner, and Mike Lewis. On 28 April 1970, the trio recorded an extended studio session of approximately 140 minutes, in collaboration with Conny Plank, who engineered and mixed the recording in real time, incorporating elements of live electronics. This session was subsequently edited to album length and released in 1974 as part of the Free Improvisation 3LP box set issued by Deutsche Grammophon, alongside recordings by Iskra and New Phonic Art.
The present release, sourced from the personal archive of Michael Ranta, documents a live duo performance by Ranta and Böttner, recorded on 27 July 1970 in an outdoor setting in Kyoto (the exact location remains unknown), before an audience of approximately 200 music teachers. The recording exhibits sonic and aesthetic characteristics closely aligned with the previously recorded studio material, retaining the distinctive “Wired” sound while situating it within a live, site-specific context.
Michael Ranta: percussion, voice, home-made instruments, tapes, tape delay, effects
Karl-Heinz Böttner: guitar, organ, ocarina, voice, effects
24€
Cheru LP Omamori – Gingembre records
Released in 2021, Cheru is not very well known on our shores. What is life with her ? Some songs, only with a voice, a guitar and a few discreet environmental sounds. It couldn’t be more direct and simple on the paer. Sometimes she can remind us Eddie Marcon or remembering how magical is seeing,looking at a sky and being lost in our thoughts & memories.
23€
Michio Kadotani LP ’87 KAD 3:4:5:6 – Wine and Dine
New and unbelievable album with archives from Michio Kadotani who was the leader Leader of the group Rotting Telepathies and had only one Cd released by PSF records in 1991. Some other stuff were released with and by Najo Asahito on his label Ma Musica records. Between punk, post punk and psychedelic / schizophrenic music, born in 1959 Kadotani died too soon in 1990 .
Incredible, probably one of the the archives of the year, ltd to 300, comes with 2 inserts, a booklet
35€ SOLD OUT
Kan 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) – SOLD OUT
2CD set 36€ SOLD OUT
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€ SOLD OUT
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€
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