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Tetuzi Akiyama / Michel Henritzi CD “Shinjuku No Kage” Dyin’ Ghost Records

Distant meeting between 2 abstract bluesmen, drifters and friends. ltd to 150

$10

Yasumi no Kuni CD “Concert 1975” Super Fuji

Long-running Japanese folk group, originally formed in 1969 by the members of Jacks & Teruyuki Takahashi, recorded live just after Fy Fan second album

$32

Kazuki Tomokawa book “Try Saying You’re Alive!: Kazuki Tomokawa in His Own Words” Blan Forms

Paperback , 14 x 20 cm – 256 pages – english

Kazuki Tomokawa has lived many lives: poet, self-taught guitarist, actor, day laborer, basketball coach, painter, bicycle race tipster, and incomparable drinker among them. Above all, he is a legend of Japan’s avant-folk music scene and his searing lyrics and raw, unvarnished vocals have influenced generations of musicians since his mid-1970s debut, when his unique sound brought him to prominence in the turbulent worlds of Tokyo’s underground film and music. Here, in his contemplative and utterly original style, the “screaming philosopher” charts the last six decades of his life, reflecting on everything from keirin to nuclear disaster to his own itinerancy, all the while providing an unfiltered view into the explosive cultural zeitgeist of postwar Tokyo. Originally printed in 2015, this translation is the first of Tomokawa’s writings to ever be published in English, and is accompanied by Blank Forms Editions’ reissue of Tomokawa’s first three solo records from 1975–77: Finally, His First Album, Straight from the Throat, and A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth. Try Saying You’re Alive! is a memoir like no other, delivered with the incisive tongue and stubborn charm of one of Japan’s most singular living musicians. 

Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950) is a prolific singer-songwriter from Hachiryu Village (now the town of Mitane) in the Akita Prefecture area of northern Japan. Since his first release in 1975, he has recorded more than thirty albums. The 2010 documentary about his life, La Faute des Fleurs, won the Sound & Vision award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and that same year saw the Japanese release of the book Dreams Die Vigorously Day by Day, a collection of his lyrics spanning forty years. His most recent albums are Vengeance Bourbon (2014) and Gleaming Crayon (2016), both on the Modest Launch label. 

Damon Krukowski is a musician and writer based in Cambridge, MA. His most recent book is Ways of Hearing (MIT Press, 2019) and his latest album is Damon & Naomi’s A Sky Record (20|20|20, 2021). 

Daniel Joseph is a translator, editor, and musician. He holds a master’s degree from Harvard University in medieval Japanese literature, and recently contributed translations to Terminal Boredom (Verso, 2021), a collection of stories by science fiction pioneer Izumi Suzuki.

$24

Masayuki Takayanagi CD Action Direct – Dangerous – Jinya

recorded in Yokohama 1991

$35

Special Disk Union – with bonus CD Action Direct Endless Final – April 27, 1991 at Nagoya

Only a few and only for regular customers

SOLD OUT

Juro Kara / Red Tent CD – Super Fuji

 Otoban Karagumi- Red Tent Drama songbook was firstly released on cassette in 1984 by PARCO Publishing Cassette Book

“John Silver” (1967), “Girls’ City” (1969), ” “Vampire Princess” (1971), “Taraban Kaze no Matasaburo” (1974), “Taraban Inuwolf City” (1979), “Haunted Chimney Story” (1981)

With Juro Kara, Reisen Ri..If you are in Terayama, Tenjo Sajiki & JA Seazer…

CD comes in a slipcase – $29

Itaru Oki CD “Mirage” Trio records

Nice and new edition that comes in a jpanese jacket with obi, great classic from 1977 with Masahiko Togashi Keiki Midorikawa, Takashi Kaki..

Only a very few $25

Itaru Oki with Masahiko Satoh CD Last Message – Super Fuji

recorded and edited in 2018 by Masahiko Satoh, Oki on trumpet & native American flute and Satoh on piano

2 legendary player, Oki has gone a few months ago, he was a pioneer of the japnese scene who moved to Paris in the mid 70’s. In 1966, he formed ESSG with Masahiko Sato, Mototeru Takagi, and Masahiko Togashi, and toured Europe in 1969. Co-starred with Kosuke Mine, Yosuke Yamashita, Takeshi Shibuya, Kazuko Shiraishi, Gozo Yoshimasu, Mototeru Takagi, Hiroaki Katayama, Nobuyoshi Ino, Yoshihide Otomo, Keiki Midorikawa, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Sabu Toyozumi, etc. Since the 1970s, he has often performed with butoh dancers, including Kazuo Ohno, Ko Murobushi, and Akira Kasai. In 1974, when he moved his base to Paris, the Asahi Shimbun wrote that “Itaru Oki’s migration to Paris is a brain drain.” After moving to France, he performed with Art Farmer, Maynard Ferguson, Noah Howard, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Alan Silva, Sunny Murray and others all over Europe. 

$29