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Eddie Marcon 7′ & CDR

Eddie Marcon 7′ Itsunomanika – Pong Kong records

$14

Eddie Marcon CDR 夕​暮​の​狸 ( Yugure no Tanuki) – Pong Kong records

$15

Eddie Marcon CDR 洞穴の狐– Pong Kong records

With Ikuro Takahashi

$15

Otomo Yoshihide CD

Otomo Yoshihide CD Solo works 1 – guitar and turntables – Little Stone records

gatefold with obi, we only have a very few

$29 SOLD OUT

Kito Mizukumi Rouber LP with CD

Kito Mizukumi Rouber LP + CD ” Mie Nak Nar Kmr” – Shit- Eye cassette

Garage, rock & roll with a new member, Kingg Vaniila, after our friend and later member Takayuki Hashimoto has passed away. His spirit survives on a couple of tracks and Kingg Vaniila with her keyboard & voice brings too a new dimension and color to the band.

My favorite release for 2023, we’re almost jealous we haven’t released it as we’re just long fan of Hirotomo (Aburadako) Hasegawa & Shizuo Uchida (when does this gentleman sleep ?) – with Masahito Okuni and now the legendary Kingg Vaniila – No hesitation before they’ve all gone ! CD is a long track mix a different version of the vinyl. This is the 2023 summer album, it can heal, it can hurt, it can make your life better !

$32 with a bonus cs SOLD OUT

Kan Mikami CD

Mikami Kan 三上 寛 with あかぎ しほ CD いわし+α – Opereko record

Short CD, comes in cardboard sleeve

$28

Joji Yuasa CD

Oto No Hajimari wo motomete 11 / Joji Yuasa CD Unnoted Electronic Music – Sound3 co

Great collection with this time has only some Yuasa’s tracks from 1964-1976

comes in a nice cardboard sleeve, we only have a very few

$32 SOLD OUT

Eddie Marcon CS

Eddie Marcon cs 夕​暮​の​狸 ( Yugure no Tanuki) – Advaita records

One side, 8 songs of one of the most talented and underrated singer and composer who’s been recording for more than 2 decades. Dreamy, pastoral and generous…

Edition of 40

$14 SOLD OUT

Gerogerigegege LP ltd

The Gerogerigegege LP As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born – Inundow

June 30th – ltd to 500 with obi

Vinyl version of CD released last October! Type A jacket with obi. Ltd, 500.
The 1st single from 34 years ago (1988) was remixed to the point of overkill with all songs from multi-tapes! All songs remastered from the master tape to the point of overkill! 2 miraculous NG takes of the popular “first song on B-side” are released for the first time! All 12 tracks, including the remastering of “Aijin” used in the legendary ” Flexi-disc Burning Live at Enoshima Beach” (which they said they would release, but changed their minds after pressing and decided to burn it)! 5500 words liner notes by Gero 55 talking about the backstage of that time! English translation included! Translated By Kato David Hopkins.

Tracks
A1. As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born (REMIX 2022)
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (REMIX 2022)
A2. Water Business (REMIX 2022)
A3. First Song of Side B (REMIX 2022)
A4. Ensam I Natt (REMIX 2022)
A5. First Song of Side B (NG TAKE 1)
A6. First Song of Side B (NG TAKE 2)
B1. Water Business (REMASTER 2022)
B2. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (REMASTER 2022)
B3. First Song of Side B (REMASTER 2022)
B4. Ensam I Natt (REMASTER 2022)
B5. Aijin (REMASTER 2022)
B6. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (GERO 30 MIX 2022)

ORIGINAL 7”ep – RELEASED ON TRANS RECORDS 1988
ORIGINAL RECORDED AT MOD STUDIO – 8th /11th / April/1988
JUNTARO YAMANOUCHI – ALL GUITARS, BASS, VOCALS, TAPES
GERO 30 – VOCALS ON A3, A5, A6, B3, B6
DEE DEE GERO/HIRONAO KOMAKI – GUITAR, BASS ON A4, B4
TOSHINORI FUKUDA – ALL DRUMS, VOCAL ON B4
ALL COMPOSED & REMIXED BY JUNTARO YAMANOUCHI
EXCEPT A1,B2, B6 : JUNTARO YAMANOUCHI + DEE DEE GERO
A4, B4 : THE LEATHER NUN
B5: TOYOHISA ARAKI, TAKASHI MIKI
REMIX ENGINEERED BY
A1 : TOSHIAKI SUDOH
A3, A5, A6, B6 : TOSHIHISA HIRANO
A2, A4 : TOSHIAKI SUDOH + TOSHIHISA HIRANO
MASTERED & REMASTERED BY SOUICHIRO NAKAMURA
LACQUER CUT BY KATSUTOSHI KITAMURA

$32

Daisuke Suzuki & Andrew Chalk CD

Daisuke Suzuki & Andrew Chalk CD Drifting – Siren

“Drifting” is the first collaboration between Andrew Chalk and Daisuke Suzuki, long buried since a private recording by the duo in 1996. Earlier in the year, Daisuke Suzuki sent Andrew Chalk a DAT tape with an unedited fragmentary recording of playing junk on these fragmentary recordings. Inspiring Andrew’s creativity, he used his intuition and old-fashioned creative vision to create cassette records. Then they did a live mix directly to the audience. “Drifting” is an old-fashioned lo-fi recording,There is a perfect harmony between the special atmosphere and texture that they create.
“Drifting” is also the prelude to their long-running collaboration and the beginning of a change in approach to Andrew’s music.”

$12

Marginal Consort 3CD Box

Marginal Consort 3CD Box 06 06 16 (St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin) – 901 Editions

Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisational group comprised of sound artists Kazuo Imai (a student of Japanese free jazz linchpin Masayuki Takayanagi and occasional performer in both Taj Mahal Travellers and Takayanagi’s New Direction Unit), Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and Masami Tada (also in group GAP). Formed in 1997, the four members of Marginal Consort attended Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at the Bigakkō art school in Tokyo in the mid-1970s, where they teamed up with other students to record East Bionic Symphonia’s debut album “Recorded Live” in 1976.

Since its inception, each year Marginal Consort holds one (or more when invited) annual concert at spacious venues in which they perform continuously, without interruption, for over three hours. Their extended set explores forms of sound and ways of playing that never coalesce into music but create a group dynamic of ebb and flow, exploration and fluidity. Their performance, which is completely free from abstract, political or sometimes mystical ideas about improvisation, neither contraposes the immediacy of action or anonymousness of sound against music nor dramatises the dialectics between the individual and the whole. Even the general idea of the words “collective”, “improvisation” and “project” do not really tell the way they work.

$39

Kim Gordon & Loren Mazzacane <lp

Kim Gordon & Loren Mazzacane LP At Issue – Alara

ltd to 500, recorded live Wed 03 Dec, 2014 at Issue Project Room

$25 new Price $15

P. Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo 4LP box + mCD

Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo 4LP box + mCD

Limited Deluxe 4LP Box Set with Art Prints
Heavy custom tip-on box with pure black uncoated paper throughout and stamped black ink pigment frame. Mounted white paper insets printed with metallic silver foil. Nine full size inserts including 8 full color art prints by the artists.

+ mCD Brötzmann / Haino Duo release created strictly for audience members who had purchased tickets for cancelled and rescheduled 2018 performance at The Chapel, San Francisco, CA. Features exclusive artwork by Peter Brötzmann. Never before commercially available.

$185 SOLD OUT

Masayuki Takayanagi 3LP box

Masayuki Takayanagi 3LP box Station ’70 – Call in question / lIve Independence Black Editions

Masayuki Takayanagi – Guitar – Motoharu Yoshizawa – Bass – Sabu Toyozumi – Drums -Mototeru Takagi – Saxophone (D2)

Black Editions is proud to present the entirety of the recordings presented on both P.S.F. albums as well as a previously unreleased side-long Mass Projection in a deluxe, remastered 3LP box set. The set features the stark photography of the late Yuji Itsumi and presents the original liner notes by key Japanese music critics and historians Yoshiyuki Kitazato and Toshihiko Shimizu newly translated into English as well as in the original Japanese.

Only a few $69 sold out

USURABI LP Outside of the world

Release date : June 30th

USURABI – Outside of the world
(Toshimitsu Akiko, Kawaguchi Masami & Morohashi Shigeki )
LP 12” black vinyl
Edition of 400, comes in a 2 colors (gold & black) silkscreened on heavy jacket with obi (black or patterned light
pink), with inserts and a postcard

Photograph : Akiyama Noriko

Special A3 (fold out) full color & duotone insert by Andrew Chalk
Printed by Alan Sherry
Liner notes by Jon Dale

Catalogue number : [An’38]

Outside of the world, the second album by Japanese trio Usurabi, is a rare pleasure – a guitar pop album that’s deep with spirit, bristling with energy, melodically rich and precious: full of life. It’s even more thrilling than its predecessor, 2021’s Remains of the Light, also released by An’archives, its eight songs falling together just perfectly. If you’ve ever swooned to the sound of rattling, humming organs on countless ‘60s garage rock sides, the wistful beauty of David Roback and Kendra Smith’s music as Opal, the brittle immediacy of those ‘80s EPs from New Zealand acts like The Clean and The Chills, you’ll find plenty to love here. The line-up’s still the same: the songs are written by Toshimitsu Akiko, previously a member of Doodles and Aminome; playing behind her is drummer Morohashi Shigeki and bass player Kawaguchi Masami, who’d previously played together in Kawaguchi’s legendary Broomdusters, where Kawaguchi really started to establish himself as one of Japan’s greatest rock guitarists. But Usurabi is very much Toshimitsu’s vehicle, a space for her to gift her gorgeous songs to the world, with Kawaguchi and Morohashi helping guide the songs into the light. Indeed, one thing that’s particularly noticeable about Outside of the world is the way all three musicians act in service to what the songs demand. So “Meet again, outside of the world” opens the album with a beautiful ‘60s garage sway, all buzzing organs and Toshimitsu’s beautifully clear voice. “Even if it’s a lie” bristles with energy and tension, its driving rhythms recalling groups like The Feelies, but with Toshimitsu’s surf rock guitar riding the waves. “Pura” is pensive and melancholy, its graceful slow motion dissolving into a free-form section where Kawaguchi and Morohashi drill down into the earth, a fiercely responsive rhythm duo, while waves of coruscating noise guitar soar out into the ether; “Waves” is a stately closer, crushing guitars cossetting a slow, martial rhythm. Recorded over 2021 and 2022, Outside of the world is a more than worthy follow-up to both Remains of the Light and the limited cassette, Further closer, released in 2022 on Kawaguchi’s Purifivia imprint. It has Usurabi stretching out, letting their songs breathe when they need, and tightening the screws on other songs so they become perfect pop statements. There’s plenty of joy and pleasure here, and a gentle but determined melancholy; inviting and beautifully sculpted, Outside of the world is a quiet masterpiece.

26€

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