Kan Mikami LP “I’m The Only One Around” Black Editions
The first ever vinyl edition of Kan Mikami’s “I’m the Only One Around” featuring lyrics translated by Drew Stroud and newly translated notes by Alan Cummings. Remastered and cut to vinyl at Elysian Masters Los Angeles, pressed by RTI, packaged in heavy Stoughton tip-on jackets with insert featuring textured paper, gold foil stamping and metallic inks.For over 50 years, Kan Mikami has stood as a master of the Japanese blues and outsider folk. His unmistakable, powerfully evocative voice and surrealistic poetry reveal a gritty, transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocations of sex and violence, religion and romance. Released in 1991, I’m the Only One Around was Mikami’s first album with Tokyo’s legendary P.S.F. Records and heralded an artistic renaissance. It marked the beginning of an incredibly productive and wildly creative era for Mikami that extends to the present day.
$24
Michael Ranta CD Taiwan years – Metaphon
Three previously unreleased works from the 1970’s recorded and mixed in Japan and Taiwan.
1-Kagaku Henka (1971) 18’40”
2-China Filch (1975) 27’06”
3-At Night (1978) 23’06”
More than any other of Ranta’s releases this album shows his multiple roots and ideas as a composer, percussionist and concrete/electronic musician, building a seamless bridge between Eastern and Western avantgarde. Ranta is one of those rare composers able to organically melt his wide artistic span into a singular but yet diverse universe morphing his rich vocabulary as a percussionist with the Oriental esoteric tradition, the psychedelic underground and the realm of electronic minimalism.
Michael Ranta: performance and mixing
Recording engineers: Shigeru Sato, Tsutomu Kojima
$18
Roger Turner – Satoh Masahiko – Otomo Yoshihide CD”Live at Hall Egg Farm” Doubt
$19
Roger Turner – Otomo Yoshihide CD “Live at superDeluxe” Doubt
$19
Hijokaidan with Akira Sakata CD “Made In studio” Doubt
$19
Jazz Hijokaidan CD “Made in Japan, live at Shinjuku Pit Inn” – Doubt
sold out
Seijaku 2CD “Last Live” Doubt
Keiji Haino + Mitsuru Nasuno + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku
$25
Seijaku 2CD “静寂の果てに” Doubt
$25
Derek Bailey – Mototeru Takagi CD/LP Live at FarOut, Atsugi 1987 – NoBusiness
CD $15
LP $24
Sabu Toyozumi 豊住芳三郎 – Mats Gustafsson CD/LP Hokusai NoBusiness
CD $15
LP $24
Masayuki Takayanagi / Noboyushi Ino / Masabumi Kikuchi CD Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 NoBusiness
$15
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