Tetuzi Akiyama – Ayami Suzuki CD Allelopathy – Ftarri
Ayami Suzuki, a musician based in the Tokyo area, performs a unique kind of ambient drone using electronics and voice. Since 2020 she has been performing at Ftarri in Tokyo, both as a soloist and with other musicians. Acclaimed guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama is active on the international improvised music scene. In 2021 Akiyama gave many outstanding performances at Ftarri; recordings of a number of these concerts were subsequently released as CDs. “Allelopathy” is one of these recordings.
Akiyama and Suzuki performed together at Ftarri on October 10, 2021. This CD contains two of the pieces they played in that concert. In alignment with Suzuki’s characteristic ambient drones and carried along on her electronics and Akiyama’s electric guitar playing, a voice performance incorporating Suzuki’s cryptic word-like sounds unfolds calmly and spaciously throughout. This superb work abounds in entrancing charm.
Tetuzi Akiyama: electric guitar
Ayami Suzuki: voice, electronics
We only have a very few copies – $18
Sanhedrin ( Keiji Haino + Mituru Nasuno + Tatsuya Yoshida) CD 「好」の５W１H – Trailights records 2013
$38 only a very few copies
Sanhedrin CD 密度を変えろ 義務の海から這い上がるように – Trailights records 2019
$35 only a very few copies
Taika CD On Chitou Jichi -Taika Fasciation
Obi, a two-piece rock band based in Tokyo. The sound image that crosses psychedelic, post-punk, industrial, folk, Thai pop, and Japanese folk songs is eaten up by all kinds of environmental sounds recorded in the field in life, but in the style of “rock band”. catch the light. The hi-hat is removed from the drum set, and the drum pattern, which is built around the toms, detours to an industrial sound by hitting iron plates instead of cymbals, gradually becoming like a festival music. The restrained two-piece style leaves room for electric drills, tinkling bells, and all manner of metal percussion, while the muffled guitars and kobushi songs tie them all together as kayo. After losing its privileged position in youth culture, this work by the duo Kawaramono, who are trying to expand the possibilities of “rock bands”, “Miiketo Jichi”. What dwells in it is the erroneous translation of Western culture, the “rock band,” the movement to localize it, and at the same time, extremely orthodox cultural forces.
$28
https://taikafasciation.bandcamp.com/album/3rd-album-2
Mizutani / Les Rallizes Denudes CD – Tuff Beats
gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge
$38
Les Rallizes Denudes CD ’67-’69 Studio Et Live – Tuff Beats
gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge
$38
Les Rallizes Denudes 2CD ’77 live – Tuff Beats
gatefold with obi and exclusive Disk Union 80mm badge (over level)
$52
Masahiko Togashi & Mototeru Takagi LP Isolation – Columbia 2022
gatefold jacket with obi, originally released in 1971
A most welcomed reissue, we only have a very few !
$52
Suzuki Junzo & Tetuzi Akiyama LP Evaporation of Holy Water – Utech
Evaporation of Holy Water is Utech Records’ first release from the duo of Suzuki Junzo and Tetuzi Akiyama. The full-length album sees the guitarists in full attack mode, laying down sheets of noise and psychedelic guitar lines inside a wild tsunami of feedback and overdrive. Twin electric guitar insanity.
Recorded by Makoto Oshiro in Tokyo, April 25, 2019.
Mixed by Toshimaru Nakamura.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Neon Pink LP edition of 150.
Art and design by Stefan Thanneur
$34
SUBLIMINAL SKULL PALACE CD – Utech
In the spirit of the Tokyo Flashback and Alchemism compilations, Utech Records presents Subliminal Skull Palace, a lengthy excursion into guitar music from Japan. From meditative to explosive, the CD contains seven tracks of exclusive music from Mitsuru Tabata (Boredoms, Zeni Geva, Acid Mothers Temple), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Changchang (Hibushibire), Aoki Tomoyuki (Up-Tight), Aural Fit, Ikuma Kawabe (Dhidalah) & Rollo, and Tetuzi Akiyama.
Packaged in a heavy replica LP sleeve with obi. Illustration by Thomas Hooper. Typography by Kevin Gan Yuen.
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
$16
Zyklon B Zombies LP”Skull” – Minimum Stable Stacks
First ever vinyl reissue of this ultra-obscure Japanese post-punk noise unit’s sole cassette from 1993. I’ll leave the rest up to Mr. Tom Lax:
“Zyklon B Zombies ‘Skull’ has been floating around the sub underground for years. Originally released as a cassette on the Japanese tape label, Vanilla in 1993, ZBZ was the musical brainchild of sadly deceased noise legend Hirohito Taneguchi (Seed Mouth) & the equally legendary Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan, Genbakukaidan) & if you don’t know it, fear not. It’s now been formated & remastered to vinyl, courtesy of the Minimum Table Stacks label. Much like Michio Kadotani’s Rotting Telepathies recordings, ‘Skull’ possesses great tremors of blurred clamber that comes directly at you, sometimes sideways. It’s hard to know how much is premeditated or just what’s driven by organic impulse, which is what makes it such a great attestation of its era. In an instant, ‘Skull’ can move from a psychotic whoosh not unlike ‘Twin Infinitives’, to an eerie gait similar to that of Dadamah. Plus, there’s everything in between. A true blue-blood of disparate vision, ‘Skull’ ranks right up there in the masterpiece department with un’s S/T lp, New Zealand’s Ziggy Stardust Band & those two solo albums from Eric Hysteric. It’s not for everyone, but for those who embrace the underground’s one percent like a long lost tree, it’s the only way to fly.”—Tom Lax, Siltbreeze Records.
Edition of 300 copies
$25
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