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Toshiro Mayuzumi EP 7′ “The Beast must die” Super Fuji

1959 OST, A tense crime soundtrack from Japan by the legendary Toshiro Mayuzumi a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music – served up in a host of shorter tracks with a really evocative feel! There’s a definite jazz bent to some of the music, but given the brevity of the tunes, most numbers don’t have standout solos –  The whole thing’s a wonderful pastiche of short melodies, instrumental solos, and dynamic rhythms.

$16

Masao Yagi – Toshiro Mayuzumi EP 7′ “Good bye Moscow” Super Fuji

1968 OST performed by Masao Yagi (piano), Akiko Miyazawa (piano), Masahiko Togashi (drums), Yasumasa Hino (trumpet), Yasuhiro Higashimoto (trompone), Akira Miyazawa (clarinet), and Satoshi Sawada (guitar).

$15

Hideo Shiraki – Takeshi Inomata EP 7′ “The Stormy Man” Super Fuji

Nikkatsu movie released in 1957 directed by Umeji Inoue, starring Yujiro Ishihara. A rare soundtrack session from Japanese jazz legend Hideo Shiraki; Also with pianist Takeshi Inomata and saxophonist Hidehiko “Sleepy” Matsumoto.

$15

OST  CD Goodbye Moscow Super Fuji

1968 OST performed by Masao Yagi (piano), Akiko Miyazawa (piano), Masahiko Togashi (drums), Yasumasa Hino (trumpet), Yasuhiro Higashimoto (trompone), Akira Miyazawa (clarinet), and Satoshi Sawada (guitar).

1968 Toho movie (directed by Hirotori Horikawa, starring Yuzo Kayama), a movie based on Hiroyuki Itsuki’s masterpiece.

A few copies for cheap !

$14

Ikuro Takahashi
しりえないものとずっと [shirienaimono to zutto]
LP ltd to 275, silkscreened jacket with obi (light blue or salmon) by  the one and only Alan Sherry, inserts and postcard
Liner notes by Michel Henritzi
Label : An’archives
Ref : [An’16]
Release date : January 21, 2019

Legendary drummer, Ikuro Takahashi played in most of the important bands of the psychedelic underground Japanese scene : Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha, Seishokki, High Rise, Ché-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Kousokuya, LSD March and Nagisa Ni Te, but also with Junzo Suzuki, Tamio Shiraishi, Akiko Hotaka and many others, making it difficult to write a comprehensive list. Ikuro does not make a distinction between the young musicians with whom he collaborates, and the big names of the underground behind whom he brings an enveloping rhythm, like the wind blowing through a bamboo forest.
A native of Hokkaï do, born in 1957, exiled in downtown Tokyo, Ikuro Takahashi lived there for a while before settling back in Sapporo with his partner, dancer Yoko Muronoi, starting the Anoyonodekigoto project together. All pieces gathered here were composed for their duo shows. Yoko Moronoi was reunited with the shadows of her ancestors in 2017, leaving Ikuro alone in the world of the living. This record appears as the last flower laid at the shrine of her dance.
This album gathers 7 tracks, most of which were built from an overlay of oscillators, music boxes and metronomes. Sometimes it recalls Takehisa Kosugi’s pieces, a common way of unfolding time and space, of making our perception float. A common saving of gesture, of concept. Ikuro Takahashi is like a weaver trapping our listening in his electric wires, dragging us in a flux of rhythmic, fluid, circular patterns.
Ikuro Takahashi is like these shamans summoning our shadows, our ghosts, to make the living core within us sing.

18 EUR + Postage

France : 23 EUR (lettre) / 25 EUR (colissimo)

Europe & EEC : 30 EUR

Rest of the world : 32 EUR

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26 EUR + postage (same rate as LP alone)

Andrew Chalk Cassette “Paradise Lost”  Impression Lointaine

With Naoko Suzuki

$12 only a few

Andrew Chalk Cassette “The circle of days 4” Faraway press

With Tom James Scott & Timo Van Luijk

$12 only a few