Japan'archives mailorderLiang Yiyuan CD “Thing loses itself” WV Sorcerer
One of the pioneers of the Chinese experimental music scene, this is the latest composition from Liang Yiyuan, an album for prepared yangqin. This is an album composed for yangqin. Some bamboos, woods, and iron clips were clamped to the strings during the recording. A violin bow, several small iron boxes, springs, drumsticks, and other metal objects were also used, to create a special timbre.
$15
Yamash’ta & the Horizon LP/CD “Sunrise from West Sea” Wewantsounds
Performance by Stomu Yamash’ta accompanied by Jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh (well known for his involvement in the New Herd Orchestra and his ‘Belladonna of Sadness’ soundtrack) and Taj Mahal Travellers founder Takehisa Kosugi on Electric Violin. The line up, also comprising Hideakira Sakurai on Electric Shamisen, is a spaced-out improvisational soundscape over the two LP sides. Remastered from the original tapes, the album is reissued here for the first time ever on LP. The LP comes in its beautiful original gatefold artwork with OBI strip, 2 page insert and a new introduction by journalist Paul Bowler.
remastered from the original tapes, comes in a gatefold jacket with obi
LP $26
CD $16
Jan Bruyndonckx LP “rails and other tracks” Metaphon
first ever release of concrete and electronic collage works by Belgian underground sound explorer Jan Bruyndonckx. ‘Rails and Other Tracks’ contains autonomous compositions, music for film and documentary, all independently recorded in his private studio between 1958 and 1965.
A small collection of adventurous and mysterious sound evocations with text/poetry (Paul De Vree) recited by Julien Schoenaerts.
$25
Mototeru Takagi & Motoharu Yoshizawa 3CD Box Duo & Solo , Live at Galerie de Café 伝 Tokyo 1987・1989- King International
$75
Li Daiguo cassette 聽風 – Sloow Tapes
Edition of 70 copies * Blending several musical traditions as western music, Chinese classical music, Finnish folk music, Carnatic music and much more Li Daiguo creates an extended sound world with a variety of instruments as pipa, erhu, ethnic flutes, shona mbira, violin, viola, cello, overtone singing and lots more pushing their sonic capabilities into uncharted territory
$10
Hibishubure cassette “Official live bootleg N°7” Sloow Tapes
Edition of 70 copies . Japanese heavy psych blow-out that rubs the third eye and instantly flings you in an overdose of speed fuzz soaring in/out of focus between hallucinatory visions of spiked Mainliner, High Rise, Les Rallizes Denudes et al. Lysergic hard rock riffs, dirty punk vocals and ferocious guitar shredding. Break through the aether with this one.
$10
Keiko Higuchi LP “Vertical language” Black Editions
“More than simply an album title “Vertical Language” refers to the distinctive musical approach that Higuchi has developed over the past twenty years. Her music is centered on the breathe and pulse- rather than set ‘horizontal’ musical rhythms or structures. It illuminates the connection between the artist’s body and sound. In her music piano chords and voice sound out in an instant and expand, floating off in new directions. The music embraces silence and negative space or the Japanese concept of “Ma” as well as the small ‘imperfections’ that any moment or sound might contain. Each moment in her music is as much imbued with what came before as what will come next – each note expands in space and can never be seen from just one perspective. In her music, Higuchi is constantly taking us to a place that neither she or we can quite yet see. “
Glad to have this solo by Keiko Higuchi on appeared 2 times with An’archives with Albedo Fantatstica and Albedo Gravitas. Here we have her with Louis Inage (Majutsu no Niwa, Yakouchu, Ochibonoame…) on a couple of tracks
$25
Li Jianhong CD “Mountain Fog” WV Sorcerer Productions
6 panel digisleeve, edition of 500
Guitar: 李劍鴻 Li Jianhong
Saxophone in “山霧 Mountain Fog”: 王子衡 Wang Ziheng
“Like Sonic Youth and Japanese rock collective Ghost, he straddles and/or blasts his way across the line between psychedelic rock and exploratory noise; he also frequently incorporates a spiritual component inspired by Buddhism and traditional Chinese art.” – Noah Berlatsky, Chicago Reader
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Sheng Jie 盛潔 & Shen Jing 沈靜 LP “Parallel Weaving” WV Sorcerer productions
Ltd to 300, gatefold, white vinyl with insert
An enchanting “in distance” collaboration between cello noise and percussions, weaving the sound of a harsh and dreamy landscape.
This is a recording between two friends in Beijing and London during the pandemic, a wonderful long-distance collaboration. After releasing her critically acclaimed debut solo album ‘卵生 Oviparity’ (The Wire’s Top 50 of 2020), Sheng Jie 盛潔(a.k.a gogoj) continues to explore her own unconventional path in tandem experimentation with electric cellos and effects, while Shen Jing 沈靜 (a.k.a Shenggy, former drummer of the legendary Beijing punk band ‘Hanging on the Box’), who has been in the music scene since the 90s, she started to develop her solo project in the field of industrial music, ambient and analogue synthesizers since 2003, for this record she returns to her role as a drummer, adding also gamelan and various percussion instruments from different parts of the world. A free, chaotic yet tender piece of work is what they deliver.
only a few $26
Meitei CD Kofu – Kitchen Label
On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and aesthetics as a provocation — or, as fashioned in the album’s subtitle, a “satire of old Japanese aesthetics”. Each entry’s distinct flavour has earned Meitei acclaim for conjuring a bygone culture through his transportive form of ambient music. ‘Kofū’ arrives as a deconstruction of this approach.
These stories cloud the overall mood of ‘Kofū’, but Meitei takes a Mizoguchi-like approach to mould that unimaginable pain with tenderness. ‘Oiran I’’s hidden subtitle is Hana, and ‘Oiran II’ is Shiokaze. As Meitei explains, “Hana means gorgeous and glorious. Shiokaze is the sea breeze — for her life.” Tracks like ‘Urameshi-ya’ and ‘Gen’ei’ provide a meditative space amidst the turbulence, while ‘Shōnen’ takes a turn for the cinematic. The eight-minute odyssey is engulfed by shadowy voice loops, mixed best for a headphone experience in a solitary setting.
Meitei bids farewell to an expedition first sparked by a passion for a long-forgotten cultural past. ‘Kofū’ is a definitive conclusion with an open invitation to listeners from Japan and beyond — encouraging continued appreciation of this sacred part of history, wholly untethered from the world at large.
Glass-mastered CD housed in a die-cut outer case with rounded obi, 16pp inserts with words in Japanese and English from Meitei. Offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper.
Only a few $26
Meitei LP/CD Kofu II – Kitchen Label
180g heavyweight vinyl in 12″ debossed sleeve with capped obi, 16pp inserts (22 x 14cm) with words in Japanese and English from Meitei. Offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper. LP ships with tracking. Glass-mastered CD housed in a die-cut customised debossed outer case (14.5 x 14.5cm) with rounded obi, 16pp inserts with words in Japanese and English from Meitei. Offset printed, full colour on premium matt paper.
Meitei sounds right at home celebrating the past he first reimagined in his previous work. The merriment is palpable in its first two tracks of Kofū II – a loop of cheery whistling amidst the clanking of wood leads into strings, cricket sounds and flutes, all united in bustling harmony. Happyaku-yachō is where it comes into focus. Pitch-shifted vocal samples roam around in the crowded sonic field as Meitei conjures the vibrancy of a dense Edo of the past. The affair becomes bittersweet as the track leads into the desolate Kaworu, a composi- tional piece lifted from his Komachi sessions – a final requiem to his late grandmother.
The album is bursting with spectral vignettes of wandering samurais, red lanterns, ninjas, puppet theatres, poets, even a vengeful assassin (Shurayuki hime, known to Western audiences as ‘Lady Snow- blood’).
We only have a very few
CD $26
LP $40
Kenta Masuda is a composer of contemporary music who lives in Osaka.
His compositions are often written with a graphic score – like Anestis Logothetis, Jani Christou and so
on – or avant-garde style . He’s also performing & improvising with used
handmade or prepared instruments. Unfortunately those ‘broken sound’ performances are kept private and not opened to any audience.
All (self)releases are pro-duplicated and printed CDR, in jewel case
each $18
Kenta Masuda
guitar
violoncello
bicycle
flute -flutility
violin – bio ring
custom valved Instrument – Bone
Reiko & Tori Kudo LP Tangerine – A Colourful Storm
Limited LP with insert and postcard. Insert contains Japanese and English lyricssheet, postcard contains artwork by the artists. A Colourful Storm presents Tangerine, a collection of songs by Reiko and Tori Kudo. Recorded at Village Hototoguiss, Japan, in 2011 and 2012
Originally released on CD by Hyotan in 2013
Delicate with a lot of strange details, honestly this is one of the most beautiful album ever recorded.
All Reiko Kudo albums are highly recommended but this one is the last recorded, already 10 years ago !
$24
MLD (Minimal Lethal Dose) LP 1983-1986 Camisole records
MLD (Minimal Lethal Dose) was a japanese project lead by Takayuki Shiraishi after his first mythical release with BGM on Vanity Records in 1980.
Made with the help of Jun Sonohara it was active between 1983 and 1986 in Tokyo.
This compilation collects nine unpublished tracks from the original tapes and confirms his unique offbeat style ranging from Post-Punk, Dub, and Industrial. It’s completed by “Perpetual Motion” and “Dynamo” previously released in 1983.
All these tracks have been carefully remastered by Krikor Kouchian.
Limited to 500 copies worldwide, only a few $24
Mototeru Takagi – Susumu Kongo – Nao Takeuchi – Shota Koyama CD Live at Little john, Yokohama, 1999 – NoBusiness
CD $12
Itaru Oki Quartet CD Live at Jazz Spot Combo 1975 – NO business
CD $12
Kang Tae Hwan CD Live at Café Amores – No Business
CD $12
Kang Tae Hwan – Midori Tanaka CD An eternal moment – No Business
CD $12
Wadada Leo Smith – Sabu Toyozumi CD Burning Meditation
CD $12
Kaoru Abe / Sabu Toyozumi CD Mannyoka – No Business
CD $12
Choi Sun Bae quartet CD Arirang Fantasy – No Business
CD $12
Barre Phillips – Motoharu Yoshizawa CD Oh my, Those Boys ! NoBusiness
CD $12
Ton-Klami CD Prophecy of Nue NoBusiness
Midori Takada, Kang Tae Hwan- Masahiko Satoh
$12
Derek Bailey – Mototeru Takagi CD/LPLive at FarOut, Atsugi 1987 – NoBusiness
CD $12
LP $18
Masayuki Takayanagi / Noboyushi Ino / Masabumi Kikuchi CD Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 NoBusiness
$12
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