Monthly Archives: February 2024

Takehisa Kosugi 2LP

Takehisa Kosugi 2LP Slowscan 2021

Remastered vinyl edition of Takehisa Kosugi’s New York, August 14, 1991 – expanded to include an entire second LP.

Sides A & B: “Recorded live at my former apartment in New York City.”
Sides C & D: Live improvisation, Bellevue Theatre, Amsterdam, Jun 12, 1979

Track D1 is listed as “Unnamed Information II” on the cover, but is actually not Takehisa Kosugi at all. It is the second half of a piece by Orchid Spangiafora called “Dime Operation” 

ltd to 400

$29 SOLD OUT

Siwa label – last copies

We have a very few copies of these albums (all new & unplayed, some have some alternative colors) released by SIWA label during 19999-2009. SIWA is Alan Sherry’s label, the man & friend who’s doing the screenprinting for An’archives label.

That’s not to say they are recommended as without him and his label, An’archives just wouldn’t be what it is as we owe him a lot.

Reiko & Tori Kudo LP in box “Light” 2008

Limited, numbered edition of 200 in a handmade, printed wooden box with screen-printed sleeve and nine card inserts. This is probably the release that just give the kick to start An’archives, seriously this is one of the most beautiful project ever done

One copy $100 SOLD

CD version $12

CD edition of 500 housed in a screen printed outer sleeve with 8 card inserts

Seishokki LP Organs Of Blue Eclipse: 1975-1977 -2005

Around Ikuro Takahashi, we can find Hitoshi Matsumoto, Masanori Komatsu, Tetsuya Takashio…

$30

Kaneko Jutok & Kikukawa Takahisa LP Wedged Night – 2005

$25 SOLD OUT

Tori Kudo & La Consumption 4 LP Atlantic city – 2005

$30 SOLD OUT

LSD March LP Shindara Jogoku – 2004

$25 SOLD OUT

Miminokoto LP 3 – 2004

Masami Kawaguchi, Koji Shimura & Takuya Nishimura

$25 SOLD OUT

Broom Dusters LP Sound From The Bottom Of The Tokyo Underground – 2007

$30 SOLD OUT

Chie Mukai LP Solo Improvisations – 2007

$25

CD version $10

Masayoshi Urabe / Hiroshi Hasegawa LP Duo1988 – 1999

$30

Urabe Masayoshi & Mukai Chie LP Dual Anarchism – 2002

So jealous we didn’t make it ! 😉

$30 sold out

Kawabata Makoto’s Inui LP Inui – 2000

$35 SOLD OUT

Ikuro Takahashi LP Anoyonodekigoto – 2004

$25

Kan Mikami LP Nishiogi No Tsuki – 2009

$22 sold out

Sabu Orimo LP Wind Songs – 2009

$22

Le Son de l’os LP Old Sun – New Vague records 2012

Yuko Hasegawa, Shizuo Uchida & Masahiro Deguchi

That’s not a SIWA release but we all helped for this project , Joel Nickelson was behind the label, sadly he passed away just after the release

$15

Anne Gillis LP & CDS

Anne Gillis LP & CD Vhoysee – Art Into life

First Manon Anne Gillis release was a single-sided mini-album titled “Angebiguë”, which was Manon’s self-release in 1983. “Angebiguë” was 6-track mini-album in a cold-minimal-synth vein, and any track from “Angebiguë” were not included in her retrospective 5CD Box “Archives Box 1983-2005”, which Art into Life released in 2015. “Angebiguë” was privately released in tiny edition for her friends only and has been a highly sought-after item among collectors.

“Vhoysee” is Manon’s long-awaited new album, and the album collects her latest six pieces and four re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë”. The latest six pieces are physical subject-based composition with minimum elements, whereas re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë” are simple rhythm-oriented pieces with her glacial sound texture. In “Vhoysee”, the past and present are interwoven and linked together in a kind of labyrinth.

LP $29 – CD $19

Anne Gillis + XT CD  Our/s Bouture(s) – Art Into life

Anne Gillis (Paris) is a composer and performer since the eighties, Paul Abbott (Antwerp ) is a musician, drummer, writer, and Seymour Wright (London) is a saxophonist and writer. In 2021, during Covid restrictions, the trio of Anne Gillis and XT (Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright) developed a piece remotely together for Café Oto online radio broadcast program. A one-hour piece titled “Our/s Bouture(s)” was ‘broadcast’ on 1 June 2021 to online audinece, and we present a complete program with careful CD mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi. The trio’s concept for “Our/s Bouture(s)” is to ‘plant’ sounds and movements, which will grow and evolve through broadcasting, and what you will hear is not a ‘performance’ but a one-hour journey of organic sonic sound structure.

ltd to 200

CD $18

Akio Suzuki 2CD

Akio Suzuki 2 CD いっかいこっきりの「日向ぼっこの空間」Art Into life

2CD + 44 Pages Book (Japanese Only)
Translated album title: Only Just Once, Space In The Sun.

$28

Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Ambarchi 3LP

Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi 3LP With Pats On The Head, Just One Too Few Is Evil One Too Many Is Good That’s All It Is – Black Truffle

$46

Izumi Hirakawa LP

Izumi Hirakawa LP “3” – Enban

Last album from the the musician from Hokkaido (and she’s”s regularly play with Ikuro Takahashi), comes in a nicely handmade jacket.

Some lovely Lo fi pop songs with piano, violin and guitar, some strange arrangements with a 80’s feeling à la Luna Park Ensemble We only have a very few !

$40