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Maher Shalal Hash Baz CDR The Waste Land – Yamabato Design Collective

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Maher Shalal Hash Baz CDR eM Seven – Yamabato Design Collective

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Maher Shalal Hash Baz CDR Gara Kei Seven – Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo – Hiromitsu Shoji – Mikiko Suzuki CDR at Gallery Fall Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo – Doronco – Tsukasa Takahashi CDR 11 pm at Kobundo- Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo CDR Jaki – Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo CDR Blues Du Jour 28/10/07 – Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo CDR les barricades mystérieuses – Yamabato Design Collective

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Tori Kudo CDR 贫穷三部曲- Yamabato Design Collective

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Homei Yanagawa CD 炎群 – Homura Armegeddon Nova

2 solo tracks on alto saxophone

$15

la scène 裸身 EP 7′ inch “Argonauta” Inner Pleasure

New track coupled with a Sarah Vaughan ‘The Mystery of Man’ cover
Guest player – Bouzouki by Shinji Kuroki (Z.O.A, Morrie) on ‘ARGONAUTA’
Cutting Engineer – Katsutoshi Kitamura (MIXER’S LAB)
Artwork by Tetsu Makita

$20 with CDR version

Carmen Maki CD “Adam and Eve” Super Fuji

Carmen Maki CD “Poems In the midnight…” Super Fuji

Carmen Maki CD “Goodbye my memories 70” Super Fuji

Recorded 1969 and 1970, those 3 first Carmen Maki are just essential if you have a sweetheart.

$24 each CD or $65 the 3CD set comes in a nice heavy gatefold with obi

Makoto Kawashima CDR “Two self” Homo Sacer

Just clocking under 20 minutes, this one is vibrant, Kawashima Makoto has a burning and singing heart. Direct and moving, we don’ t need any long explanations.

$10

Makoto Kawashima CD “Homo sacer” P.S.F

Re-stock of the very last CD released  in 2015 by the legendary P.S.F records label.

I can’ t tell you enough how I’m moved everytime I have this CD in hands : I remember how Ikeezumi-san was so excited when this CD was released, how he considered Makoto being as one of the best player from his generation. Different from Urabe, Makoto has maybe a more lyrical and direct style, there’s so much feelings that explode into the listener’s face….

I only have a few copies, no idea if there’s many remaining copies.

$20

Makoto Kawashima CD “Dialogue” Homo Sacer

$12

Makoto Kawashima CD “You also here” Homo Sacer

Ltd to 100 with no distribution ! Makoto Kawashima is still considered as a new comer but believe me he’s getting stronger and within 2 years (whose Homo Sacer CD was the final release on P.S.F records) he’s been recording some of the most moving music. Somewhere between Ayler, Urabe and Abe but with a very singular lyrical mood between melancholy and rage.  Pick it up before it’s gone for collectors !

$15

Makoto Kawashima CDR “Rain” Homo sacer

pro-CDR, this one is  Kawashima’s last statement, he considers this recording has a different one….Kawashima is really as one of the most uncompromised and talented sax player of these last years, he’s almost like a song-teller, far from intellectualism and the usual Kaoru Abe reference. Different from Urabe, slowly he’s showing a true identity.

$14

Makoto Kawashima – Naoto Nishizawa duo CD”Hamachidori” Homosacer records

Great duo with Kawashima on alto sax and Nishizawa  (Exias-J) who’s a percussionist and sound artist. Far from the usual ferocious playing, music has her a lot of space with Kawashima’s singular melodic and lyrical vibe.

$18

Makoto Kawashima CDR “Unification” Self Release $12

One more excellent release and quite intense performance from Kawashima, maybe a bit more physical from the previous releases.One new howler who slowly finds his own way…

Satomimagae LP “Hanazono” Rvng Intl

Satomimagae’s Hanazono is an invitation to revel in your immediate and imagined surroundings, to make time and space for guileless curiosity and garden variety enchantment. A tribute to everyday mysticism, Hanazono is an ecology of simple, cyclical refrains and elegiac entreaties cross-pollinating with ludic and layered folk vibrations.

QRP pressing on black vinyl, with English / Japanese lyric sheet insert and download card.

On behalf of Satomimagae, a portion of the proceeds from this release will benefit the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit, educational organization behind Sesame Street, who together give displaced children in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq the support they need to learn, grow and thrive.

Only a few $28

Phew / John Duncan / Kondo Tatsuo LP “Backfire of Joy” Black Truffle

Black Truffle is thrilled to announce Backfire of Joy, a previously unheard recording from Phew, John Duncan and Kondo Tatsuo, documenting a concert at Tokyo’s Hosei University in 1982. Though the fertile exchange of ‘zines, tapes and records between the Japanese underground and the Los Angeles Free Music Society meant the artists were familiar with each other’s work, this performance (occurring on Duncan’s first visit to Japan) was their first meeting and only performance as a trio.

Duncan is heard on his signature shortwave radio set-up, while Kondo performs on synth, tape loops and echo-drenched piano, providing a spacious backdrop for Phew’s astonishing performance of spontaneous, free-associative song moving between Japanese and English. A testament to the unhinged exploration of the 1980s experimental underground, the trio careen wildly between crashing percussive tape loops, deluges of shortwave noise, insistent piano figures and playful synth melodies. On the B side, we are treated to a remarkable ten minute sequence moving organically from spaced-out synth and radio textures to a stunning finale of improvised balladry centred on piano and voice, unexpectedly broken up by electronic interjections. Beautifully recorded in crunchy vintage fidelity, Backfire of Joy arrives accompanied by archival photographs and newly authored liner notes from all three participants.

$23