Xiang / Otomo Yoshihide CD A waiting room creation – Ftarri
This album contains an hourlong duo performance by Xiang and Otomo Yoshihide at Sichuan University in March 2025, when Otomo visited Sichuan on a tour of China. Both Xiang and Otomo prepared various non-instrument objects and hit, rubbed and scraped them to produce diverse loud and soft sounds. With the additional use of violin by Xiang and a broken guitar by Otomo, the sounds of instrument strings being scraped or rubbed sometimes emerge, but the sounds heard throughout the performance are clattering, banging and rattling noises. Voice, whistling and tongue-clicking sounds are heard occasionally as well. Among Otomo’s works, this kind of album, with such noises as the predominant element, is quite rare. But the distribution and structure of the noises produced by the two musicians and the way these noises spread through the venue space are sublime. Not simply an unusual recording, this is an outstanding and truly valuable document.
14€
Manabu Suzuki – Keiko Higuchi CD Lost and found well well halo…Ftarri
Suzuki played self-made electronics; Higuchi performed only vocals in the first piece, and vocals with piano in the second. The free-spirited, dynamic energy of both performances is truly amazing.
14€
Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi – Yoshiki Ichihara CD To(r)ri Infranta – Ftarri
With both musicians making full use of multiple synthesizers, the sound density increases over time, culminating in an amazingly exciting finale.
14€
Asuka Kuroiwa LP Long-Awaited Spring – Tuffe Beats
Kuroiwa Asuka’s deep and intense third album, “Too Long a Spring” (released in 2021), produced with the band “Yoru”, has been remastered and rereleased on vinyl.
Seiichi Yamamoto participates as a guest singer.
35€
Asuka Kuroiwa LP Monster – Tuffe Beats
Singer-songwriter Kuroiwa Asuka has been performing live shows consistently based in Osaka since 2017, including a two-man event with Haino Keiji at Shibuya WWW in 2022.
This album features four band members: Suhara Keizo (Ba), Senoo Rickey (Dr), Hama (Gt), and HEAT (Gt), and includes seven songs, including the electric guitar track “Yoru no Umi,” which tells a story spanning the time from dusk to early morning when the sky begins to turn a little brighter and bluer.
Her whispering voice contrasts with the band’s impressive psychedelic guitar sound, making this a soulful album that touches the hearts of listeners like a light in the darkness.
35€
Music of the Polygonola – Applied Vibro-Acoustics
Back in stock, released in 2017
An analogous phenomenon is captured in carefully designed two-dimensional metal plates cut in the shape of various polygons. The size and thickness of the plates are chosen to reproduce a particular set of overtones, which differ from the conventional twelve-tone equal temperament scale. The sounds generated in these polygonola differ from those of a one-dimensional string because the instrument is approximately two-dimensional and sustains two-dimensional waves. The sounds generated also differ from the membrane of a drum, as the membrane is supported at its perimeter but the polygonola is supported at selected interior points, resulting in different overtones when struck in the center and edge of the instrument.
With Keiji Haino, Makiko Sakurao, Kazuyuki Shiotaka (biwa), Rayzan Tanaka (shakuhashi)…
25€
Ruriko Asaoka LP Kokuro no uramado – Teichiku – Tuiff Beats
Nice reissue of a great Kayokyoku album by the legendary actress and singer from the Showa period. The jacket was designed by Tanadori Yokoo and the original labum was released in 1969.
It’s great mix with some bossanova influences, some typical songs from the 60’s written by Yasui Kazumi poetress. It has a lot of crowning moments and it’s just hghly recommended
39€
Kiyoshi Awazu ” Makurihirogeru” exhibition catalogue + 2DVD 21st / Century Museum, Kanazawa / Gendaikikakushitsu
Graphic Designer Kiyoshi Awazu (1929-2009) was one of superstar of Japan’s avant-garde era in 1960-70’s. This large retrospective exhibition was carried out at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa between Nov. 2007 and March 2008. All of Awazu collection and all related performances for this exhibition (excerpt) are recorded on 2 DVDs. Exhibition catalog is specially designed as documentary of this event – unfortunately texts are written in Japanese mainly (some descriptions are in Japanese and English). 2nd DVD includes some live concerts, for example, Yosuke Yamashita’s “Piano on Fire”, Toshi Ichiyanagi’s piano playing and Takehisa Kosugi’s live performance “Mano-Dharma Concert”
A4 format / Heavy
Used copy, Excellent condition, some minor shelfwears
75€
Les Rallizes Dénudés CD Disque 4 – Tuff Beats
Japanese cardboard edition
25€ sold out
TOMO LP Wheel of life – Knotwilg
Wheel of Life is the new LP by Japanese hurdy-gurdy artist TOMO, released via Knotwilg Records. Following Vieille-Electronica, the record dives further into a singular blend of drone, folk and minimal experimentation.
TOMO is also active with Archeus and played with Haino Keiji, Ayami Suzuki and part of Tetragrammaton.
Rooted in Breton tradition yet shaped by influences from Japan, India and medieval music, Wheel of Life unfolds as a timeless and hypnotic work. TOMO’s playing moves between fragile intimacy and raw, almost punk-like build-ups. Music that lingers and reveals itself over time.
LTD to 300 – 25€
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