Japan'archives mailorderTomoyuki Aoki & Harutaka Mochizuki CD “2”.
Aoki Tomoyuki from UP-TIGHT (one of our favorite band for years) with one of our favorite musician / sax player = one of the most exciting duo for years, we just love their music.
200 copies self release
$18
Mikami Kan – Hijokaidan – Mikamikaidan – 三上階段 2CD Chaotic Noise recordings
ltd to 500, comes in a multi panel digipak
$35
Michel Henritzi & Ikuro Takahashi CD “We were there” Psych-Kg / Klageto E-Klageto series , comes in a 7 inch jacket , ltd to 250
$14
情趣演歌 | Enka Mood Collection 10’ LP
Mineko Itakura – Shin’ichi Isohata – Michel Henritzi
RQRQ ( Yuka Ijichi – Doronco – Tabata Mitsuru)
Edition of 275, silkscreened gatefold jacket with inserts, postcards & obi
Liner notes by Alan Cummings
Catalogue number : [An’19]
Label : An’archives
Release date : 5 November, 2019
On this, the fifth volume of An’archives’ Enka Mood Collection split 10” series, two trios explore the possibilities of enka in typically expansive fashion. Side one features four songs performed by the trio of Mineko Itakura, Shin’ichi Isohata and Michel Henritzi. They’re all musicians with impressive histories: Itakura was a member of downer psych group Angel’in Heavy Syrup and Slapp Happy Humphrey; Isohata has worked with Otomo Yoshihide, and composed a soundtrack for Tadasuke Kotani’s film, The Legacy Of Frida Kahlo.
Michel Henritzi is also a known quantity: over the years, he’s been a tireless supporter of Japanese underground music, a writer, critic and record label owner who’s also recorded with Junko, Tetuzi Akiyama, Rinji Fukuoka, Masayuki Urabe, and Á Qui Avec Gabriel, among others. The trio takes on four enka songs, extracting the bittersweet tang from each melody, comfortable in the space that enka inhabits, a world of longing and nostalgia that sits somewhere between tradition, folk and blues.
Flip the 10” over, and Yuka Ijichi, Doronco and Mitsuru Tabata stretch out across three songs. They’ve plenty of prior form for this – Tabata’s history includes time with Acid Mothers Temple, Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Green Flames, and 20 Guilders; Doronco goes further back, a one-time member of Les Rallizes Denudes. Ijichi is a relatively new presence, but she’s released two gorgeous cassettes of acid folk on Selection Records. There’s an immediately sympathy to their playing, and a preternatural ability to grasp the core of the material; it’s beautifully performed.
Price : 18 € or $20
Including airmail :
France : 24€
Europe : 26,5 € with airmail or $29
Rest of the world : 29€ or $32
la scène 裸身 CD-EP コリド “Corridor” Inner Pleasure #9
Second CD with Atsuo from Boris with Roger Waters “Cymbaline” cover
The band is actually on Tour in Europe, believe me their name should grow. This one sounds a little more psychedelic and out with their own composition while their Roger Waters cover is very minimal & personnal. Not long enough (just clocking under 25 ‘) for sure as there’s no false note here !
Comes in a 3 panels digipak with obi
$12
la scène 裸身 CD 天の赤道 – Ten No Sekido – Inner Pleasure
Subtle and profound Japanese slowcore; It will transport you to the fount via the bowels of the sound. This work is created from a collaboration of Atsuo (Boris), especially inspired by his view about the voice. Each song exudes its presence like a small signpost glowing in the darkness, and its introspective sound swells as a form of therapy.
It features guest guitar by Hideki Yamagiwa (Katurei/Chi to Shizuku) and also guest vocals by Atsuo in 16mins title track “Ten no Sekido” Mastered by Soichiro Nakamura (PEACE MUSIC).
$20
Masayoshi Urabe CD “What Hasn’t Come Here, Come !” Relative Pitch
Recorded 5th August 2017 at Sakedelic, Space Shuyukan (Oumi-Hachiman, Shiga, JAPAN)
$15
(shipping is $2,5 in France & $4 everywhere else)
Sanhedrin CD 密度を変えろ 義務の海から這い上がるように – Trailights records
Haino Keiji + Mitsuru Nasuno + Tatsuya Yoshida
Comes in a 6-panel Digisleeve
SOLD OUT
Masayuki Takayanagi / New Direction for The Arts CD “Free form Suite” Craftman Records
One of my long time favorite !
$17
Masayuki Takayanagi Angry Wave CD “850113” Octave Lab
SOLD OUT
