Tashi Dorji cassette “But a night that ends..” Moone records $10

Ltd to 150 with download coupon –  “But a night that ends,  as all nights end,  when the sun rises” –

“Tashi Dorji is a celebrated free-form/improvisational guitarist. Born and raised in Bhutan, but transplanted to Ashville, NC in the early 2000’s. He is a musical force that is in a caliber of his own. The amount of originality in his playing could have only been summoned when one is forced to confront limitations and raise a big middle finger to the ‘status quo’….

Tashi’s latest album but a night that ends, as all nights end, when the sun rises is pieced together in a non-linear/non-hierarchical form. Every segment equal part fragile and intense. The album feels like it is addressing a dark political climate but from an anti-establishment perspective. It is a transmission from another dimension, to let us know we aren’t doing this “humanity thing” right. However, in its confrontation, it still arouses hope for a brighter future.”

Nord cs “Electric Meditation -live materials 2015-2017” Haang Niap $13

NORD has been pursuing original sound world in the underground since the 1980s.
Current NORD is active by the original member Satoshi Katayama with Hiroshi Hasegawa (ASTRO) and Shizuo Uchida.

Arrington de Dyoniso & Tori Kudo CDR “Yama Neko Improvisations” $13

Tori Kudo- pump organ
Arrington de Dionyso- bass clarinet, some voice, membrane horns

Recorded in February 2007 at Tsuru’s home studio in Matsuyama Japan during the Maher Shalal Hash Baz/Arrington de Dionyso/Karl Blau joint tour organized by 7ep and K Records to celebrate the release of the KLP/7ep album “L’Autre Cap” by Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Only a few !

 

Eddie Marcon CD “Kurakurakurage” Pong Kong Records $29

Long awaited new album by one of our favorite folk singer. Once again it comes in a nifty packaging with a 16 pages attached booklets.

If you need some sweets songs before entering winter.

Only a very few, quite expensive as I don’t have any wholesale

 

 

Masami Kawaguchi CS “Live  2016” Albert’s Basement $9

Ltd to 70 – one man, one voice, one guitar, one soul and that’s enough.

 

Up-Tight  CS “Live In Europe” Desastre $10

CS limited to 80 and CDR ltd to 60

Nice live recordings from the 2017 french tour, believe me I was there and it was just incredible. Now we just hope the band can record a new album.

 

Toshiharu Osato CD “Improvisation dedicated to Aquirax Aida” Companysha $17

Excellent archives from Osato who played in Taco & Gaseneta, maybe one of the most important and still unknown musician coming from the early 80’s – he played with Tamio Shiraishi, Tori Kudo…. Limited to 200

 

Nord cs “Electric Meditation -live materials 2015-2017” Haang Niap $13

NORD has been pursuing original sound world in the underground since the 1980s.
Current NORD is active by the original member Satoshi Katayama with Hiroshi Hasegawa (ASTRO) and Shizuo Uchida.

Tashi Dorji cassette “But a night that ends..” Moone records $10

Ltd to 150 with download coupon –  “But a night that ends,  as all nights end,  when the sun rises” –

“Tashi Dorji is a celebrated free-form/improvisational guitarist. Born and raised in Bhutan, but transplanted to Ashville, NC in the early 2000’s. He is a musical force that is in a caliber of his own. The amount of originality in his playing could have only been summoned when one is forced to confront limitations and raise a big middle finger to the ‘status quo’….

Tashi’s latest album but a night that ends, as all nights end, when the sun rises is pieced together in a non-linear/non-hierarchical form. Every segment equal part fragile and intense. The album feels like it is addressing a dark political climate but from an anti-establishment perspective. It is a transmission from another dimension, to let us know we aren’t doing this “humanity thing” right. However, in its confrontation, it still arouses hope for a brighter future.”

Takashi Ueno cassette “sax solo 2” Majikick $12

Takashi Ueno cassette “sax solo” Majikick $12

Tenniscoats cassette “Tenniscoats hiphop dj mix tape” Majikick $15

Ann Ihsa cassette “Ann Ihsa solo” Senri $15

Aann Ihsa is a pop music band leading Risa Yasuda.
This band moves into action around Osaka. If you are in Reiko Kudo and intimist singers, this one is for you. A new name to discover.

Yuka Ijichi cs + download card “How To make Paper Clay” Selection rec. $12

Lovely and discreet singer  that only has one album firstly recorded for Sloow Tapes, maybe 7-8 years agao. If you are in Reiko Kudo and her fragile and expressive songs, that’s for you.

Sadahiro Yamada cs + dowload card “Shitaiha” Selection Rec. $12

recorded in 1984-85, between cheap electronics and primitive songs, weird !

 

Doji Morita HM-CD ” A boy” Universal $24

Beautul and haunted albom from the 80’s, Doji Morita still remains as one unique voice, some could tell she dealt with suicide, morbidity…Or maybe she was a voice of a lost generation.  She’s gone with all her secrets in 2018 and this album is one of my favorite for years.

Kazuki Tomokawa CD”Gleaming Crayon” Modest Launch $17

Fantastic last album recorded in 2016 with Hiromi Yamazaki, Mochizuki Harutaka, Hirochimi Sakamoto, Masato Nagahata…Essential, onl y a few copies, nearly sold out at source

Naoki Zushi CD “IV” Org Records $26

New album after a 13 years of silence,  Naoki Zushui was an early member of Hijokaidan and  started his association with Shinji Shibayama / Nagisa Nite 3  decades ago !

High priced I know but I do not make any benefit on it

 

 

 

 

Doronco Gumo CS “Man Star” Selection Rec $10

Excellent ltd cassetten sometiems sounds abit like MSHB with

Colin Molter : Trumpet & Vocal
Doronco : Bass & Vocal
HIiragi Fukuda Guitar & Vocal
Mako Hasegawa : Drums
Reina Higa : Melodica & Vocal
Itsuki Suizu : Melodica & Vocal
Hainezumi Nishimiya : Banjo & Vocal
Osamu Karita : Cowbell & Scream

Phew CDR05 Phew self release $12

sold during her gigs, some more excellent tracks there.

Maher Shalal Hash Baz CDR “2003 Space land L.A” Dependant Direct Sales $35

La Monte Young CD “Raag Bhairava” Mongolian Magnolia $40

Digipak

La Monte Young – Marian Zazeela CD “The Black Record” Mongolian Magnolia

comes in a digipak, pressed CD, only a very few ! $38

 

 

Makoto Moroi CD “Kusabira ” Edition Omega Point $18

Joji Yuasa CD “Background sound in Textile Pavillion of Expo 70” Edition Omega Point

$18

Fukuoka Rinji – Michel Henritzi CD “Desert Moon” Pataphysique records $15

The 5th album “Desert Moon” made by the on- going duo of Japanese and French players since 2007, expressing the “international melancholy”, commonly shared by all the people without race, delivers the crisis of the time that may cover the entire world or even the entire planet with some intense sound which brings about the collective unconsciousness of the early 21st century.
The sad simple melody on the 1st track, strings tremolo devoted to Nico and the repetition spiraled organ- like loop in reverse on the 2nd track, followed with the 3rd track of where Bartok-like rhythm, melody and voice meet as mantra, and such undefinable various music continues.
The 4th track “Inside the Penitence Box” demolishes the western order with the roaring sound of guitar with effects and the piano’s extended technique, leading to the next track of the cover, “gloomy sunday”, the famous chanson from the time between the first and second World Wars. On top of the totally distorted repetitive “gloomy” melody as the word represents, Fukuoka Rinji, the guest vocalist of Hijokaidan’s Junko, and the poetry reading and screaming voice of Dana Valser, the Spanish female musician living in France, come lay on top of each other.
The last song is “Ballad of Josef K” devoted to Frantz Kafka. With this labyrinth of maybe a ceaseless hallway of a huge building appeared in “the judge.

 

Sighin P / Inryo Fuen / & Junichi Yamauchi CDR “Sa Reta oto No Hanashi” Cragale NM $35

With Takafumi Sato, Founder of the early 80s Tokyo underground live venue Minor, and the label Pinakotheca Records.

Keiji Haino – John Butcher CD “Light never Bright Enough” Otoroku $16

Digipak with obi

 

Phew CDR04 Phew Homemade

Ltd 25 minutes CDR, comes in a colored papersleeve

Only a few !

$10

Green Flames CD “Green Flames” Assommer 2012 New $20

If you’re looking fater a follow up to High Rise, this one is for you. Super combo trio with Narita Munehiro (High Rise), Tabata Mitsuru (ex AMT, Zeni Geva) & Ujiie Yuro (High Rise). Narita vocals are rather nasal and higher than Asahito, music is maybe more polished than High Rise but it still remains as a super rock album with a slice funky touch. We love it here ! Comes in oversized jacket

Green Flames CD + DVD “Live !” U-Rythmic $35

same tracks than the album above but wilder and maybe even better. Sold out for a couple of years.

 

Kito Mizukumi Rouber cs “At Cabaret Le Chat Noir” Papa records

Quatuor is back, alive & kicking !

$10

V/A “Chotto Mate kudasai -Live” cassette Licht-Ung / Econore ltd to 22 $12

With Aoki Tomoyuki, Marble Sheep, Saramatakemitsuko,  Takeyari Shunta, Licht-ung

V/A “Chotto Mate kudasai – Studio” CDR Licht-Ung ltd to 50 $10

With Harutaka Mochizuki, Kyu-Shoku, Ono Ryoko, Kei, Hysteric Picnic, Bucket-T

Quite a rock compilation with not everything brilliant but it’s always nice to hear Harutaka a few more underground names

 

Behrman, Klingensmith, Demarinis & Kosugi CDR “New York 1980” Otherside rec. $55

 

 

Fumio Kosakai CDR “Practice for oscillation” Self Release Exc $25

 

 

 

Kan Mikami CD+DVD  “Blog, tweet, Facebook” Chaotic Noise 2013 NM $24

Double digipak with obi

Angkanang Kunchai CD “Mae Baeb Pleng Morlum vol 2″  $15

Nice compilation of one of the best singer from Thailand, luk Thung is a popular style of music coming from the countyside that emerged after WW2, having from its beginnings drawn upon northeastern musical traditions and the northeastern Isan language. Instrumentation is a nice mix of western instruments with some traditional khaen, phin. Hard to resist,  we’re terribly hooked to this style of music. For a couple of years Em records from Japan dived into Luk Thung and Molam musics.  Here aresome typical thai cheap CDs with a lot of exclusive songs.If you are interested with some more singers, you can ask as weare also huge fans of Bubpar Saichol, Dao Bando , Pongsri Woranuch (Absolutely great !) and a few more.

 

 

Harutaka Mochizuki cs “Short Short” $SOLD OUT

Limited to 51, each one is different

2017, Shizuoka Azarea Music Room, intimate music, perfect at night.

 

Grim cs “Discharge Mountain”  Eskimo / Lust Vessel $12

Ltd edition of the 10 inch version on Athanor.

Once again, Jun Konagaya vocals are freaky and nuts…Or maybe Shrek teamed with the band !

Astro cs “Tateyama mandala” Haang Niap Rec. $12

Astro is a well known duo, here with this album has some distorted samples and some field recordings, musicians consider it’s not anymore only noise music, they call it a “deep psychedelic concrete music”.

 

Taco DVD “Live 2013.10.10”  $25 Lof Books

rare ltd DVD with the legendary Harumi Yamazaki

Eddie Marcon CDR EP “Feruto No Tsuki” Pong Kong  $14

 

Red Shoes CDR “6.26 (sun) 7 : 0.0 Muon” Cragale $24

 

Terror Shit cs “Tthis Error” Haang Niap Records

TERROR SHIT is a high / low speed improvisation unit: Kyosuke Terada (guitar / HUH, bum, etc), Shizuo Uchida (Bass / Hasegawa-Shizuo, Galactic Abyss, etc), Kazehito Seki (Voiz / BNSU, Ameri B.C, etc). Just released their 1st album, “TTHIS ERROR” by Cassette with DL code

$10

Reizen cs ” Sapphire” Haang Niap Records

ltd to 100

$10

Soldier Garage CDR “Isobel” 2013 Self Release $18

 

Harutaka Mochizuki CD “Through the Glass” Armageddon Nova $15

ltd to 100 copies, comes with a badge

Well, what ca nI say as I consider Harutaka as one of the best howler coming from Japan for a couple of years. This album is the first one recorded in studio, it’s direct, gracile without any artifice. That’s only the expression of a true soul.

 

Joseph Lewis and David Steans CD + DVD “Our Demons and our >Demons 2” Art Into Life $14

John Mylotte (aka Sir Ashleigh Grove) is the leader of the ultra-mysterious cult group Metgumbnerbone, which also includes Richard and Philip Rupenus of The New Blockaders.This is a heretical two-part work, entitled “Our Demons 1 & 2”, and was filmed on mini-DV cameras by Mylotte’s friends David Steans and Joseph Lewis. The films capture various ritualistic actions performed by ten masked individuals, somewhere in the blasted landscape of England. The films overflow with a warped humour, confusing the viewer as to the participants’ real intentions. The background music weaves an even more cultic atmosphere – not noise, but a kind of self-imagined trad folk. This version comes with an additional, stand-alone, remastered CD of the soundtrack. Only a small proportion of the soundtrack was used for the final cut of the film, so this is the only place where you can hear the full soundtrack. Highly recommended for all devotees of Metgumbnerbone’s uniquely eccentric sensibilities!
Hardboard cover with tarot card prints by Joseph Lewis, and liner notes. Limited edition of 150.

 

Takashi Goda Book + CD “Japanese underground  Music in the late 70s & 80s” Loft books  $35

All written in japanese but has a few pictures, more than 400 pages. CD is really interesting since there’s some 18 tracks  with Tori Kudo, High Rise, Gap, Takafumi Sato (Pinakotheca label founder) A-Musik, Inryo Fuen…Heavy , only a very few !

Michel Henritzi –  À Qui Avec Gabriel CD “Koyonaku” Bambalam $12

“Koyonaku” is the result of the encounter in downtown Tokyo between Japanese accordeonist À Qui Avec Gabriel and guitarist Michel Henritzi.
The duo re-interprets through improvisation Enka music, soulful and melancholic popular Japanese songs. They meander solitary through these sad melodies in their very own iconoclastic ways. À Qui Avec Gabriel’s voice whispers in our ears and bewitches our senses with these love songs. Whether on the strings of the guitar or the keys of the accordeon, the combined 4-handed creative soul disconstruct this abstract blues with the perfect balance of sensuality and violence.
“Koyonaku” is a game of mirrors reflecting different exotic folklore, where each one of them feeds on the other, the suspended space of “mono no aware”: this infinite melancholy of the present, echoing its silences, its cries and its screams.
A beautiful blues record for your lonely nights.

Aunt Sally CDR “Early gig ’78” $55

Incredible and extremely nicely done boot that comes in a heavy japanese  professional printed jacket. How fine to hear Phew singing Sunday Morning, sound is raw but it’s a rare opportuny to catch the vibe from 1978 with one of the most interesting japanese artist for more than 3 decades.

 

Aunt Sally CDR “1979.5.21 Kyoto circus circus” $50

comes in a heavy jacket

 

 

 

As / SS / gZ / WHITE HOSPITAL 2CD + Promo DVDr $25

(CD1 White Hospital CD2 As / SS / gZ )

[Disk Union Original benefits: LIVE video DVD-R]  – 360 ° panoramic image

The live show named “TASTE PRESENTS Live Aktion 4“FIRECRACKER”” held at 18th April, 2015
is fully included in this 2cd live album.
As/SS/gZ is a unit band of the space-explosion-sound army “ASTRO”, the insane alternative
junkrock band/torturing sound laughing bikers “Co/SS/gZ” and its mascot girl”GrinderS”.
WHITE HOSPITAL is the legendary industrial band which comes back to life after 30 years.
This album is recorded live by Kimijima Yui, the doctor of sound reaper from Tsubame studio.
This is the first live recording in the Rokuonki series

Aishi Oyauchi CD “Hikureteyomowakuraku” Armageddon Nova $13

Aishi Oyauchi is a radical alto saxophonist in the tradition of Kaoru Abe and who hails from the same first generation of Japanese free improvisers and he regularly plays with Deku bassist who comes out of the whole Motoharu Yoshizawa school of radical free improvisation and rigorous sound art and was a student of legendary percussionist Masahiko Togashi. Here Oyauchi plays soft, no reed torture and this release offers one more missing part of the japanese free music underground. Unrecorded despite being in his 60s and playing out for several decades so this is the only 3rd recorded evidence of the invention Oyaushi is capable of and that has attracted regular collaborators such Kan Mikami and drummer Sabu Toyozumi.

 

 

Fukuoka Rinji & Michel Henritzi CDR “Dark Carnival” Dying Ghost sold out

Ltd to 55, with different obi colours, comes in a japanese size jacket

guitar’n’violon muddy blues, new  moving collaboration between the French avant-garde guitarist Michel Henritzi (Dustbreeders) and Fukuoka Rinji, formerly of Overhang Party and currently of Majutsu No Niwa

  

 

 

Harutaka Mochizuki CD “Through the Glass” Armageddon Nova $15

ltd to 100 copies, comes with a badge

Well, what ca nI say as I consider Harutaka as one of the best howler coming from Japan for a couple of years. This album is the first one recorded in studio, it’s direct, gracile without any artifice. That’s only the expression of a true soul

Makoto Kawashima – Naoto Nishizawa duo CD”Hamachidori” Homosacer records $18

Great duo with Kawashima on alto sax and Nishizawa  (Exias-J) who’s a percussionist and sound artist. Far from the usual ferocious playing, music has her a lot of space with Kawashima’s singular melodic and lyrical vibe.

Andrew Chalk CD “Everyone Goes Home When the Sun Sets” Faraway Press $16

New album from Andrew and once again it comes in a lovely handmade gatefold jacket, please once again think about the amount of love and work.

Andrew Chalk CD “Everyone Goes Home When the Sun Sets” Faraway Press $30

This is the portfolio edition (multi panels), once again it’s handmade. Only a few !

Elodie CD ” Odyssee” Faraway Press SOLD OUT

Andrew Chalk + Timo Van Luijk

Comes in a handmade gatefold jacket with obi

 

Aoi Swimming CD “Top of the fancy” $20 only a few

Coming from the Sapporo  scene and now newly located in Tokyo, we have here the first true CD with the great diva of avant pop also known for her  funny videos.  She’s an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter cum performance artist playing toy keyboards, her weirdly plastic neon voice bounces witty, observant lyrics over pumping toy house rhythms.

Absolutely nuts and creative,  almost unknown on the western shores she was recently on a european tour co-starring with Otaco and Cup & Saucers  native friends  from Hokkaido.

Bibi & Tenniscoats 7′ “Tamashi / Akuma made todoku koe” Majikick $10

Makoto Kawashima CDR “Unification” Self Release $12

One more excellent release and quite intense performance from Kawashima, maybe a bit more physical from the previous releases.One new howler who slowly finds his own way…

 

 

 

 

 

Kazuo Imai CD “For Tentou Mishima” Hitorri  $15

Kazuo Imai (born in 1955) studied with Masayuki Takayanagi and Takehisa Kosugi, and has been performing improvised music since the 1970s. While his principal instrument is the guitar, he also makes extensive use of viola da gamba, electronics, everyday items and natural objects, freely performing music born of myriad sounds. This album is comprised of five pieces from Imai’s live performance on the final day of a solo exhibition by graphic artist Tentou Mishima (who died in 2012), held at the gallery Nanzuka Agenda in Shibuya, Tokyo, in August of 2010. In the first track, which is over 40 minutes long, Imai uses an acoustic guitar, Fiedel Gamba, piano wire, branches and small objects, changing instruments and expressive techniques several times in the course of the performance. With its superb structure and dynamism, this epic work makes a powerful impression. In tracks 2 to 5 (each about 4 minutes long), Imai used (composed) Mishima’s drawings like scores and performed them on acoustic guitar. Imai’s outstanding artistry and skill are fully demonstrated in these amazing performances.

Junji Hirose “SSI-4” Hitorri $14

Junji Hirose became active on the free jazz/improvised music scene at the end of the 1970s. He has played the saxophone in a variety of groups and projects, including Masahiko Togashi’s band and Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground-Zero. But Hirose’s work is not limited to sax playing: in the 1980s he started performing noise music on his SSI (self-made sound instrument), an apparatus made from his collection of bicycle wheels and other everyday odds and ends. The sounds produced by hitting and scraping the objects are amplified via installed pickups, turning into complex, intricate layers of sound clusters that reverberate through the space. This is a live recording of two pieces performed by Hirose in January 2013 at Ftarri, Suidobashi, Tokyo, on version 4 of the SSI. You’re sure to be caught up in the whirlpool of dazzling sound produced by his truly unique self-made instrument.

Cup & Saucers “Awesome” Self release $12

Formed in 2013, Sapporo guitarist and singer Miyuki Mori’s female duo Cup & Saucers, completed by Mari Watanabe on drum, belong to the same informal Sapporo underground network of intuitive, inventive and often funny young musicians, improvisors and video makers as Aoi Swimming and Shimettainu, with legendary drummer Ikuro Takahashi (Fushitsusha, Lsd March..) acting as spirit guide. Cup & Saucers’ debut album Awesome, recorded at Sapporo’s Musical Bones Studio sometimes reminds as early Afrirampo band  with their childish voices but in a more rocky mood, sometimes a bit of Non Band or even some reminescences of Aunt Sally. We’re are very happy with modestly promoting the Hokkaido scene since  it’s still unheard here and it’s nice to discover some young musicians outside of the well known Tokyoïte scene. Cup & Saucers will grow up for sure,  please open your ears to new names and help the band with finding some european dates.

 

Grim ” Maha”  2LP & 2 CD versions on Steinklang 2CDs : $14 or 2LPs : $25

Honestly I’m rarely in industrial-noise music but for a couple of years Grim offers a crazy mixture of psychotic rhythms with schizophrenical vocals and powerful Industrial songs in a typical oldschool  style.  Both versions comes in a heavy gatefold jacket with attached booklet (funny collages !)

Carmen Maki “Poems in the Midnight…” + “Adam & Eve” + “Goodbye my memories ’70”

3 x CDs housed in Disk Union promo box Each album comes in a nice gatefold jacket with obi  SOLD OUT

It’s just a miracle to these 3 essential albums orginally released in 1969-1970

These are the first Carmen Maki  albums, “Poems in the midnight..”  with lyrics written by Shuji Terayama is  emotionally charged with sentiments that go back to her child day memories when her American father (stationed in Japan) abandoned his wife and kid once his tour of duty was finished. So this work can be seen as partly autobiographical, filled with emotional power blows . The 2 other albums  “Adam & Eve” & “Goodbye my memories ’70”  sees her delving a bit deeper into the possibilities of mixing sensuality with fragrances of kayokyoku, soft psych and folk elements, all poured over with an utterly late sixties vibe of Japanese exotism. “Adam & Eve” stands alone as a whole coherent album and “Goodbye my memories” is more a mixed up of different styles with lush orchestrations covering some beautiful Nobuyasu Okabayashi songs.

Believe me these are my all time favorite albums, I’m always returning to these albums since I discovered them. We only have a few of these limited box sets.

  

Miyanishi Keizo The Hundred Devils 2CD “Japanese Original rock style” Pataphysique rec.$17

Comes in gatefold mini LP jacket with extensive bookletIt is a compilation and new front of the long-time artist (drawing) and musician, Miyanishi Keizo’s art work, music and poems till the present.
The Hundred Devils is his new band, and this first album is the absolute genre-less music.

Hideaki Kondo CD “Asyl” PSF  $16

Kondo on guitar and biwa, with covers of Berg, Miles Davis, Astor Piazolla. Just beautiful !

 

Ché-Shizu CD ” Hi No Tamaki” Jigen $16

New album with Mukai Chie, Tori Kudo, Nishimura Takuya and Takahashi Tsukasa.Nice pych band that was originally formed in 1981 and as always is a combination of folksongs, covers and some free improvisations.

 

Keiko Higuchi CD “Between dream & haze” Improvised Beings $10

With Masami Kawaguchi, Luis Inage (Majutsu No Niwa , Yakouchu), Tatsuya Nakatani.Maybe the most important step for Keiko, she could be considered like a japanese Diamanda Galas but here she’s going further with some great musicians covering some great classics such “Moon of Alabama ” with fire in the studio. Singular, maybe  sometimes it’s sounds too much but it merits to be heard

Itaru Oki – Axel Dörner CD “Root of Bohemian” Improvised Beings $10

《《》》 [Metsu] featuring Saya（from Tenniscoats）＆ Shibata Satoko CD “Relay” Doubt $15

Oshima Teruyuki – guitar, bugeffects
Takeshita Yuma – electro-bass
Kayu Nakada- bugsynthesizer
Yuji Ishihara – drums, percussions
Saya – vocal
Shibata Satoko – vocal, acoustic Guitar

Taco 4CD “Box vol2 ” Super Fuji Comes with 47 pages booklet NM $60

Second box with unreleased tracks from this crazy band centered around Harumi Yamazaki (Gaseneta), OHsato Toshiharu, Lolita Junko and Shiraishi Tamio

Their famous and mythic first album was released in 1983 on Pinakotheca label with the help of Ryuichi Sakamoto..Music is hard to describe because you don’t know what is coming track after track.

This second volume gathers some live performances from 1982 to 1985 with a lot of participants such Tori Kudo, Machida Machizo, Sato Kaoru, Fumio Kosakai, Goitsuka Ryo, Narita Munehiro and a lot more forgotten names from the underground scene. Chaotic, wild, funny, stupid, just enough to catch the breeze from the 80’s !

Search Ensembles CD  Search Ensembles – And Oar $10

Search Ensembles is a new evocative project of and/OAR founder / operator  Dale Lloyd presenting “sonic archeology”, unearthing forgotten and previously unreleased recordings from project participants’ archives, plus  new recordings to create a conceptually cohesive album.

For this release, Search Ensembles was:

– Alan Courtis: field recordings
– Cédric Peyronnet: field recordings, voice, objects
– Cyril Herry: objects, voices
– Dale Lloyd: field recordings, objects, percussion, production, slide whistle,
synthesizer, voice
– David Tobin: percussion, slide whistle, violin, voice
– Jani Hirvonen: electronics
– Jon Tulchin: field recordings
– Katerina Nejepsova: flute
– Loren Chasse: field recording, flute, percussion
– Michael Northam: field recordings
– Petr ‘Pedro’ Tuzar: guitar
– Phil Legard: banjo, drum, psaltry
– Slavek Kwi: analog echo, banjo, monotar, percussion, tapes
– Stuart Arentzen: electronics

Bill Wells CD “Summer dreams” + CD “Autumn Dreams” $26 for the set

or $15 each

Both albums are Japanese release only on 7ep label, covers artwork by Namio Kudo

 

Sundays & Cybele CD 1st Gyune Cassette 2008 $25

First CD by a young band who has LSD March / Shinsuke Mishishita support and it’s quite easy to understand. This first album starts a bit where LSD March late period  sits as a duo with its soft ballads, very close to Les Rallizes Dénudés circa “Mizutani” / “Mars Studio”. All along the years  and through the albums Sundays & Cybele have tried different directions, like soft psych,  a slight touch of dub (like LSD March in their very last album), spacy sounds and always some folky roots.

 

Tori Kudo / M. Suzuki / No. Plum / T. Mochizuki   CDR “O Caroline”  Live at Barasoo 2015/4/12 $25

Once again what an odd release with Tori, when the song is good, you can keep on playing it for hours (here it clocks around 35 minutes) Only a few, private and limited release

 

Sir Ashleigh Grove CD “The Nimply Power Sessions” Siren records $12

Sir Ashleigh Grove, it would be people who are familiar with the UK noise scene of the ’80s is the throbbing chest to hear its name. Broken and Flag (and related) few songs that have been recorded in the compilation of, and without leaving the official sound source in addition to co-starring credits in ‘Live at Morden Tower (aka Seinsart) “of The New Blockaders, that from the scene to the boundary of 1984 disappeared Sir Ashleigh Grove (SAG). Its identity is that it was a pseudonymous leader John Mylotte of Metgumbnerbone is a well-known fact. So far, work of the SAG Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, such as Ramleh, early 80s It has been compared to the artist to be categorized in the United Kingdom Power Electronics. At that time there was also criticism of the “vocal Opener Sutcliffe Jugend”, it is not a altogether mistakes when it comes to music surface. But interest in these artists is Nazism, serial murder, Marquis de such as contrast had been directed to Sado, SAG’s was interested in Edgar Allan Poe, H · P · Lovecraft, Arthur – It was the work of writers such as Conan Doyle. Also while many artists at the time of the Power Electronics is using a synthesizer, SAG is vacuum tube radio was used, function incomplete effector and in familiar available electronics, such as metal detectors, and the normal instrument I did not use. With the exception of the work that has been recorded in some of the compilation, but work of SAG was stored in his personal archive box, it has decided to this time release the Works by his own music selection. Although all seven songs that the album is what all was recorded in 1983 compared to, has passed more than 30 years from recording, since it is progressing deterioration of the original master tape, a recording of the current digital equipment Then, it has become a lo-fi sound enough to scaring. Still, it is a sound source should be recognized as a “lost treasure” in the early 80’s of the UK noise scene, it seems that time if these sound source long been officially released, might have changed the history of the United Kingdom noise This is the album that had the charm to. Sound quality adjustment and mastering, Phil Julian, also known for costarring with TNB was done in 2015. Double jacket (paper jacket), it is a specification that the insert card is attached which describes the complete discography of SAG. Limited 500 copies, gatefold with insert

 

 

Kaoru Abe + Inoue Keizo + Nakamura Tetsuya CD”Live at Hachioji , sept.3.1977″ DIW $16

Andrew Chalk CD  ‘A Light At The Edge Of The World’  Faraway Press : FP 025 $18

‘A Light At The Edge Of The World’ captures the fading essences and glow of ‘Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies’ Wave Serene’ (2012), in a single 40 minute piece for electric piano atmospherics.Its predecessor being an album of romanticised vistas, is concluded here in a restrained and delicate homage of poetic impressionism.

Mini CD slipcase with wooden spine on inner sleeve, clothbound spines, offset printed papers. Debossed motifs.These are all handmade,  no plastic, it’s really a given price for a such amount of work. Please think about it.

You can also order directly from Faraway Press in order to support directly the artist http://farawaypress.info/

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Naoki Miyamoto / Chie Mukai – Tetragrammaton CD “Ftarri Collection ” New $15

Red / Green cs Papa records $13

Amazing compilationns with Kito mizukumi Rouber and some new bands to discover on Uchida Shizuo label;

Participation band, Convulsions acid garage Enka sound ” Kito-mizukumi Rouber“, Orthodox ethno New wave band of girls ” FALSETTOS ”,And the Bealtes meets No wave!! in dangerous smell. Marvelous senior band “ Galakuta ”. New wave garage slider from Nishiogikubo ” KEBRI DEHAR PARK “.And the Blast Pop Fuckin Girls vocal band “Ten Pen Chee “,A drum plays an original member of Space Streakings.And awesome guitarist NP(ex ZENI GEVA) is guest participation!
It’s obscure and trash, psychedelic, pop truck filling!Cassette release only, 100 limited edition. C-47New No New No New No Wave !!!!

Kito Mizukumi Rouber cs “Yumeno Kippuutino KMR” second pressing $12

Hasegawa-Shizuo ” 120728″ $12

 

Yasui Kazumi CD “Zuzu” Solid 2014 $38

Disk Union ltd picture, comes in a a nice gatefold jacket

1^st album by poetess Yasui Kazumi. She only made two albums, both borderline crazy rare items and this one here was her first recording, released on October 1970. The music is just breathtakingly beautiful, softly hushed Bossa Nova/ Enka/ Kayokyoku inspired female vocal trash, delicately orchestrated without being blatantly over the top, the whole album is a eargasmatic affair that will hush your demons to sleep. Impregnated with that late sixties/ early seventies vibe, sparsely orchestrated, creating a very laid back atmosphere. Sometimes close to Carmen Maki, Yasui Kazumi wrote a lot of songs covered by other queens such Henmi Mari. But Zuzu sounds more melancholic , with sometiems a heavy influence à la Gainsbourg.

 

Incapacitants cassette “We shall return”  Deterra 2015 New $22

Edited during January 2015 using live and studio recordings from the late 1990’s as sound sources. Limited edition of 100 copies. Standard cassette case with 3-panel J-card, cassette with on-body print

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Ruriko Asaoka CD “Ai Wo Utau”  DIW / Teichiku – Disk Union ltd ed $38

Originally released in 1970 with a Tanadori Yokoo artwork, comes in a nifty gatefold jacket with booklet.Well, Ruriko Asaoka is a star, I wrote a lot in the past about this release, this is one of my all time favorite album.This is the limlited Disk Union copy, comes with a second obi, a replica of the original obi. Only a few for true fetichists and I’m one of them

Yakouchu CD “Yakouchu” Veltz New SOLD OUT

First CD with this band that appeared on PSF Tokyo Flashback 6 in 2007 and toured since with Overhang Party, Keiko Higuchi. Centered around female singer Madoka and Louis Image guitar + drums and organ, music is rooted in psychedelism with a light touch of Quicksilver Messenger Service influence, or like White Heaven with dreamy mid tempos. For psychedelic life, psychedelic people, a new name to discover !

Les Rallizes Dénudés 10 CD set Disaster sources “Encyclopedia of Rallizes vol.2″ Pressed CDs : No label Like new $100

 

Tomoyuki Aoki – Harutaka Mochizuki CD “St”  Self Release ltd to 200 sold out

Fantastic duo , my favorite release for 2014 between the leader of UP-TIGHT and sax player Harutaka who becomes stronger with years.

 

Tori Kudo cassette ” Atlantic City” La musica Records 1996 EX $65

 

V/A Substancials # 4 Book  + CD  2011 Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu New $28 160 pages with tracks from Jim O’rourke, Akio Suzuki, Keith rowe, Marcus Schmickler, Toshiya Tsunoda. English / Japanese

  

 

Atsushi Reizen cassette [Perpatetic Collection] ltd to 77 VLZ produkt $12

Atsushi Reizen “Sapphire” Haang Niap Records $12

special offer : both cassettes for $20

Michel Henritzi & Rinji Fukuoka cassette “Eclipse in Berlin”  Nahàsh Atrym Prod. $10

V/A Sounds for the Masses cassette Haang Niap Records $10

66 minutes with ODA takumi(Japan) / Torturing Nurse(China) / Rohco(Japan) / Nguyen Hong Giang (Vietnam)

High Rise CD “Tapes +” U-Rythmics nm $20

Comes in mini LP jacket

 

Tenniscoats Cd “Hope you are Wells” 7e.p. $15

Great collection released by the excellent 7e.p label ! Comes in a mini LP jacket

 

 

Toshiji Mikawa / RDCD Split CD-R  (ltd 50 copies- printed CDR) – Trangsao $13

Intense harshedelic madness paired with a grandiose epic masterpiece furthering the journey through the outer realms.

 

 Michel Henritzi & Fukuoka Rinji cassette “Berlin”  Anarchofreaksproduction New $10

 

LSD March CD “Kimi no uta..” Donburi records 2013 New SOLD

Excellent album in a duo incarnation (Shinsuke Mishishita + Ikuro Takahashi) that covers last releases on Important rec. with reinterpretations and some unreleased tracks with an iresistible funky vibe. Funny, Hope we could hear more from them in a near future.

Angkanang Kunchai with Ubon-Pattana Ban CD  Em records NMint  $20

If you are in Luk Thung and Molam music, this is probably the release of the year, if you dig  thai voice with tremolo, khaen …Can’t stop playing it since it arrived.  This album represents a crucial moment in Thai musical history when the performance styles of Molam and Luk Thung were fused together for the very first time. Born in the province of Ubon Ratchathani in Isan (the northeastern region of Thailand), Angkanang Kunchai was a young female prodigy who emerged on the Molam scene, and became one of the first generations of Molam performers who were able to “sing” popular music.

 

Kiyoshi Mizutani & Kiyoharu Kuwayama CD ” Interlude” And-Oar $15 Kiyoshi Mizutani: feedback / Kiyoharu Kuwayama: handmade electronics, contact mic & mix

Toshi Tsuchitori CD “the songs of the civil rights movements at Meiji period (1868-1926) –  Ryuko Gakusha NM SOLD One more beautiful release by Tsuchitori who sings and play all instruments : shamisen, percussions…Know as a free musician he had collaborated with Momoyama Harue and has been deeper in ancient instruments and now in old forgotten songs. Not experimental but if you are in minyo, in deep folkloric waters.

Chie Mukai & Che Chen CDR”2.23.11″ Ltd New $25

Very ltd tour CDr before the Lp…Nice collaboration, Che Chen is a young & talented musician.

 

 

Toshi Tsuchitori 2CD “Azembo & Chido’s enka” – Ryuko Gakusha 2013 $48

beautiful release with some old enka tunes (pre WW2), vocal, shamisen and a lot more all played by Tsuchitori. This the heart of japanese soul with some minyo, folk incursions. Nothing experimental, just beautiful.

 

 

Ikuro Takahashi CDR “Oscillators Lights” 2013 Galleria Zarigania Mint $15

Ikuro Takahashi CDR “Drums and Cymbals” 2013 Galleria Zarigania New $15

Ikuro Takahashi CDR “oscillators” 2013 Galleria Zarigania New 2013 $15

Nakahara Masaya CD “The Mix CD” Black Smoker records New $15

 

Kito-Mizukumi Rouber cassette ” Yume No Kippuuri No KMR”  Papa records / Chocolate Monk $15 Ltd to 100,  stupid, weird and funny

V/A Cassette “Modoku / Kyoki” d’s -1986 EX $75

Nice  and extrelely rare compilation edited by Tori Kudo,  first cassete in a serie of 3 ,also known as “Toxic”, if you are in Noise / Kudo stuff, in the underground scene from the 80’s  with  a rare track with Kudo’s family

 

Zuno Keisatsu CD “Zuno Keisatusu 1” Hayabusa Landings 2012 NM $30 Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica, with obi-strip and two inserts of notes. Japanese ur-punk/rock band formed in 1970 by Panta and Toshiaki Ishizuka ( who’s still playing with Tomokawa kazuki and has produced some of his early albums), known for their extreme left wings opinions.

Zuno Keisatsu CD “Zuno Keisatusu 2” Hayabusa Landings 2012 NM $30 Comes in a MINi LP gatefold jacket

Zuno Keisatsu CD “3” Hayabusa Landings 2012 NM $30 comes in a mini Lp gatefold jacket

Jacks CD “Second Session” promo Disk Union Toshiba 2004 Mint $30 Originally released in 1968 Comes in a mini LP jacket with 2 obis

 

ONNA  2CD “Eros” Bloody Butterfly 2001 EX+ $35

Fantastic set leaded by Keizo Miyanishi who’s better known as a manga cartoonist. Music is the link between Iuchi Kengo & Shoichi Miyazawa (the Rabbits and his solo album), on these hypnotic selections recorded in 1983 he was helped by Michio Kurihara (White Heaven – Ghost ). definitively the best release from ONNA who started in 1983 as a cold wave band. Gorgeous artwork, comes in a gatefold with inserts.

 

 

Zenkoku ban! nippon minyō dai zenshū 15CD Box  Polydor $130

Massive collection, one of the most complete minyo collection with a lot of superb songs and musics covering all the folkloric vibes coming from Japan and its islands. Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Okinawa, Fukushima, Nagano…A lot of different instruments, voices, polyphonic singers..Highly recommended, heavy, comes is a plastic rack !

 

Masahiko Togashi CDR (professionally duplicated) “Guild For human music”  – Columbia NM $30 rare & official released duplicated on demand for a short time, Guild for Human music was released in 1976 with Yoshio Ikeda, keiki Midorikawa, Masahiko Satoh, Toyuzumi, Shigeo Suzuki and a few more well known form the mid 70’s. One of my favorite Masahiko Togashi, rare edition .

Dohshimasu-Symphonia CDR “At kongoh juin 2011” NM  $15 Nice improvised ensemble conducted by Onnyk,  Morita Yasumasa, Kakusika Noziuke…Comes in a nice cover with vinyl like black CDR

V/A Fecund Infection– Pinakotheca compilation CD – Super Fuji – Promo copy, comes with a badge $50 Fantastic re-release of the very first compilation on Pinakotheca mythic label; Some nice tracks with Onnyck, David Toop,  Toshiharu Osato, A-Musick, deku, Satoshi Sonoda. Comes in a miniature replica of the gatefold cover.Underground and timeless music, Super Fuji becomes the best label for a couple of years with true indispensable archives : taco, Osato, K. Watanabe

Tokyo Suicide cassette La Musica Records LA-120 / 1996 NM $85 Extremely rare document from 1982 with Tori kudo just after the Snickers disbanded, a quick project / homage to Suicide – Alan vega and drum Machine.Psych punk group from Tokyo

 

Yamash’ta & The Horizon CDR “Sunrise from west sea “live”” – SEIDR – EX+  $85 Boot of a famous album originally recorded in 1971 with Takehisa Kosugi, Masahiko Satoh…I bought it 5 years ago on Ebay, SEIDR has also done someRallizes denudes. Printed on photo paper, printed CDR

  

Miki Minoru CD (digipak with booklet) The Music of Minoru Miki – vol 1 performed by Ensemble Nipponia – Westminster / Columbia new $25 Excellent and rare CD with Minoru Miki, an underrated composer who wrote many pieces for traditionnal instruments..But it doesn’t sound strictly traditionnel, you can hear some european influences…Just perfect for springtime, as good as Makoto Moroi but less austere . highly recommended ! Soud recording is exceptionnal, if you can’t afford the vinyl box, you should really give a try.

 

Reiko Kudo CD Mikan – Hyotan 2013 – NM $ 20

Last album with Reiko’s songs like haikus and music played by her husband Tori and their son Namio. Once again less is more, fragile, strange, quiet, out of tune, freaked…Sweet.. Music is diverse and offers a large palette of instruments such guitar, organ, violin… Just FANTASTIC in one word, one more timeless album, Already my favorite album for 2013 ! Fold out cover / poster

Tori Kudo cassette single “net cafe mystery”   Uramado cassette Ltd ed to 100 $35

2 nice songs recorded in 2004 & 2011

Tzitziki cassette “Tapes” – Uramado cassettes 001 ltd to 100 NEW $65 TZITZIKI is Takuya Nishimura (Che-SHIZU, Maher Shahal Hash Baz, Pidjin Combo, Miminokoto) Kanji Nakao (Compostera, Maher Sharal Hash Baz, Umezu Kazutoki Band, NRQ) Yoshio Kuge (Pungo, Les Rallizes DeNudes, Compostera, AMUSIK) Tori Kudo (Che-SHIZU, NOISE, Maher Shahal Hash Baz)

 

Koichiro Watanabe CD “Matomete Abayo wo I wasete Moruse ” Super Fuji 2013 new SOLD OUT CD case comes in a splipcase with fold out insert. Reussie of a long out of print homage CD , it seems Super Fuji is going on deeper in 80’s  documents excavations and I must say many of these releases are just very nice  & even truly fantastic f you are in early years of the japanese post punk actions. Koichiro Watanabe was a musican who played with Tori Kudo eraly MSBH’s incarnation, Unltra Bide with Jojo, Fumio Kosakai and linked to Pinakotheca label. Once again it’s a mix of munk rock with electronics assaults, I must say I’m a huge fan of this kind of stuff, it’s really hard to catorize. It’s rocky, expremental,  sometimes songs oriented…But so wild and true ! If you are in recent  Satoshi Sonoda, Taco, Osato recent releases,

Yuriko Futaba CD “Kuradashi Rokyoku meijin sen 4” – 2000 King  NM with Obi $18 Originally released  in 1972. Futaba Yuriko is probably one of the most emblematic japanese singer, she’s just considered as a national treasure, she’s the queen or rokyoku / naniwa bushi style that was popular in the Meiji period (it ended in 1912). This music is very popular in Japan and was mainly played in radio programs until the  60’s, in fact it’s a mix of narrative ballads and enka songs with shamisen interludes and sometiems with a lot of environemental sounds. Futaba is just a monument, she’s probably hundreds of recordings and she’s not so well considered by theyoung generations because with her cheap kimonos she became the symbol of conservative ideas. On a musical level, it’s just unbelievable, it’s really melodramatic and very odd because it gathers so many things, even for non japanese readers you understand tragic stories, Futaba is a singer, an actress, hard to belive she’s behind all voices. Strangely with years, I can hear a lot of similitudes Mikami Kan, of course his lyrics are absolutely modern, personnal and poetic but on a formal aspect you can really hear where are his roots. I mean the actual Mikami, and the one’s from the late PSF period. Also, Futaba is a name to discover if you are in theatre and Cinéma for L’oreille, just close the eyes and you’ll see a movie. For those who aren’t  vinyls fetichists, I think these relases are a good start for cheap. Recommended

Yuriko Futaba CD “Kuradashi Rokyoku Meijin sen 27” KIng – NM with obi $18 Originally released in 1978

Yuriko Futaba CD “Futaba Yuriko Rokyoku no Miryoku 10 ganpaki no Haha” – 2007 – NM with obi $18 Originally released in 1977

 

Ikuro Takahashi CD Domori To Sanshu – Siwa –  silkscreened wooden slipcase with inersleeve & obi – NM $25 Excellent and beautiful release by Fushistusha’s drums section ! Ikuro has been active for years, he has played with all the japanese impro scene, he’s also a key member of LSD March. He’s an excellent percusionist but he has also some activiteies with cheap electronics; like electronic crickets….here we have 2 different aspects of his works….recommended !

Mibu Kogawa / Furukawa CD “mibu” – P-Vine – NM $45

Fantastic re-release of a mythic album originally released in 1978. Mibu was a folk singer,  a bit like an early Mikami Kan but his howling voice is more like Kazuki Tomokawa. Some concrete sounds and some rural and minyo backgrounds are mixed with acoustic guitar, taiko and percussions coming from north of Japan; Haunted, intense and obscure. Highly recommended !

Taco 4 CD box “Vol. 1 / amachan” – Super Fuji – Like new $40 DVD box size, comes with a 56 pages booklet. Harumi Yamazaki and Toshiharu Ohsato….A legendary band mostly known for Gasaneta and Taco first album on Pinakotheca. Materials here is rawer with some contributions from Tamio Shiraishi recorded in 1980 just after Gaseneta stopped, Tamio became then a major contribution to their noisy aspect. Dense, wild, amazing and with Ohsato box 4CD, one of the most true interesting  archives coming from the 80’s underground.

  

Guys & Dolls cassette “Last” – La Musica $75 One the rarest among the band’s cassette, one more nice document…

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD “The Archives Of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs ” – Ignuitas / Darch – NM $25

LTD to 100 , the first in a serie of10 x 2CD

 

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD “The Archives Of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs ” – Ignuitas / Darch – NM $25

 

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD “The Archives Of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs ” – Ignuitas / Darch – NM $25

 

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD “The Archives Of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs ” – Ignuitas / Darch – NM $25

 

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD “The Archives Of Dizastar Sources 20 Discs ” – Ignuitas / Darch – NM $25

 

Kito Mizukumi Rouber cassette “concertattheroalalberthall” – Rockatansky records – NEW $10 The trio is back ! Stupid, funny, rocky and recommended – LTD to 100

 

Sono Mari 3CD box ” Derrakusu – Mari Chan to deto” – 2007 USM – EX+without obi – $65 Nice out of print box with a lot of early songs from 1962, Sono Mari was one of the most nice gifted voice singer, she was one of the most lovely enka/kayo singer between 1965 & 1970, also signed on Polydor like Sachiko Nishida. Very interesting box because tracks from 1962 are not well known whereas the 2 others CDs are a nice compilation of her hits when she was at her peak. Already a collector, price is reasonable…

 

Tori Kudo & Rick Potts CDR “Ka-Bella-Binsky- Bongo !” ltd and numbered – DDS – Japon 2011 $75 Stunning freaked meeting between LAFMS & MSBH, as strange as the packaging is…Puzzled and freaked kind of jazz with guitar, organ,  voices, samples, after the first 5 minutes you’ll probably caught by surprise. Very nice because you can hear a true mutual understanding and a funny collision between 2 veterans of their own underground scene. I’d say, historic and far better : enjoyable, unprobable…Nicely done ! Numbered 149/150

 

V/A “Shinano ro no minyou” 11 CD box Private release – EX+ SOLD Fantastic box released by a  local Shinano Association,  Shinano was an old province of the actual Nagano prefecture on Honshu’s island, this box offers a lot of minyo/folkloric sides originally recorded & released as a LP box in 1977, these releases were only sold through the local small libraries.  There’s so much to hear here, from shakuhachi solos to some beaten shamisens, sometimes nicely recorded in their environment, there are also a lot of folkloric songs, sometimes it sounds like some incantations, sometimes there are some drunken men typical songs, rythmic transes with female demonic choirs, shamanistic characters , wild drumsand so much more…. A lot of mysteries, far from the usual clichés coming from the eastern world music collections, this is the typical and true folk recorded by and for  japanese. Strange in its true definition, absolutely out of time, Shinano was really important because of its central place on Honshu’s island, you can hear a lot of different influences and this box is quite a serious and complete document if you have opened ears and if you both like the folkloric side and the experimental one’s…and so nicely illustrated…

Uramado second anniversary CDR with Tamio Shiraishi, Tori Kudo, Yoshihide Otomo, Keiji Haino ltd and numbered EX/EX+ $120 Mega rare numbered 57/100 release from 2005 that compiles 4 tracks from 2003 to 2005 with 4 japanese stars, solos by Otomo, Kugo, Haino and one duo with Kudo & Tamio Shiraishi

Kaga Mariko CD “Aishiau Futari No Tame Ni Ai No Resson”- Warner 1999 – NM -$35 Originally released in 1971, one excellent and hard to find erotic release,  a nice soft pop album with french arrangements à la française, this highly addictive. Comes in nicely illustrated booklet, one of Tiliqua’s favorite and it’s quite easy to understand why… “Kaga Mariko was and still is a very famous actress in Japan but what hardly anyone knows is that while she was still a young nymphet she recorded this one off LP in 1971 when she was 28 years old. The album whose title translates itself as “Lessons in Love” sees Mariko embarking on an erotic French inspired vibe but instead of singing songs into being she fills up the whole of the compositions with private pillow talk, erotic one liners, girlie sexy mumblings and so forth. She knew she wasn’t cut out as a chanteuse and instead embarked on what she was strong in, becoming a love tainted young girl, exploring love in all its aspects through a journey towards the true one. Her voice is bewitchingly beautiful and even if she just fills every composition with her soft talking, it comes over as singing to these ears. Mariko was a vamp, one can her it and also judge it from the sexy pictures filling the gatefold. Coquette, ultra feminine, erotically charged and highly individualistic, she was the femme fatale of 1971 downtown Tokyo. The whole vibe reminds me a bit of the Kuwabara Yukiko LP, only that Kaga Mariko takes it a step further as far as talent, girl power, erotic vibrations and professionalism goes. One of the most obscure and highly sought after erotic records to seep out of Japan, copies just never surface – especially ones in top condition like this one here complete with obi and pin up poster. To make it even more mouth watering, this is the blue label promo copy. Fantastic LP, it took me only a decade to dig up my own personal copy and here is the first ever-complete copy I have to spare. Mint all the way, stunning both to behold and to get soaked into. Kaga Mariko is my personal Iroke Queen ” – Tiliqua

 

  Itoh Kiyoko & The Happenings Four CD “O Ganso” – Shinseido 2000 – ex+ / $35

Excellent and out of print with a lot of unreleased mixes with the lovely Itoh Kiyoko and nicely produced by Kuni Kawachi and his band. A lot of acoustic details with a slight touch of psych .

 

Reiko Kudo & Tori Kudo CD “Light” – Siwa – NEW – $10 Comes in a silkscreened slipcase and 10 inserts, it’s a shame it hasn’t become a hit, one of the best Siwa release and as usual the artwork is gorgeous. Music is just excellent with Reiko Kudo songs /.haikus and Tori brings a large palette of instruments, recorded at home with his approximative aspect. Highly recommended, it really merits a wider audience and NO PLASTIC

Keiji Haino mCD “Shruti Box”  – promo Not for sale – 1997 P.S.F – EX $50 The rarest Keiji Haino artefact and sadly it’s an excellent release from the gold period.

 

Sachiko Kanenobu Cd “Misora” mini Lp gatefold – EMI – EX+ $30 One great classic but this is the rare japanese edition CD,  this album was released during  the Japanese ‘folk boom’ and featured seminal figures Happy End and  Haruomi Hosono. Kanenobu was labeled the ‘Japanese Joni Mitchell’.

Ruriko Asaoka CD “Best” – Teichiku 2001 – Mint/ sealed  $20 Ruriko Asaoka has reached a cult status for year in Japan. She was a model,  an accomplished and well known actress and also one of the best singer since the 60’s. This compilation is a short introduction, there are only 7 tracks but that’s enough to go in heavens. These are true kayo songs with a lot of varied influences but Ruriko Asaoka has really a true voice, romantic and melancholic, someone you’d like to cherish. One of my favorite kayo singer, she even surpasses Meiko Kaji and consorts. Very rare,  if you wer disappointed with her, I’d accept a return !

V/A “Midnight Shinjuku” 2CD box – Coulumbia 2009 – NM – $40 Great idea with this box centered on Shinjuku…With Keiko Fuji (of course), Ogi Hiroko (one name to discover), Shinichi Mori, Matsuo Kazuko and many more…A lot of tracks,  34 to get immersed in the night with an extensive booklet.

 

Emergency CD “Homage to peace” – Digipak -America / Numbered – New  – $20 Nice collection by Universal side label. Glenn Spearman, Toyozumi, Takashi Kako, Bob Reid, Boulou Ferret recorded in 1970

V/A Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik Tour CD – C & P by Manifatture Criminali under license from La Musica – EX+ – $15

One forgotten and nice compilation with Mainliner, Musica Transonic, Tatsuya Yoshida, Ohkami No Yikan, Toho Sara…

Creation / Rinji Fukuoka cassette C46 “Creation”  – 1992 – EX+ – $40 Early rare recording by Rinji Fukuoka leader of Overhang Party. Deeply rooted in drone music with synths and guitars, you could already hear one aspect of his psyché side.

Creation (Rinji Fukuoka) cassette C46 “Music for the nerve maze garden 2” – MEDIUM 001  EX+ – $40 Second cassette and also rare, this early period has never been covered since 1993, with synths and violin, dedicated to Stan Brakhage.

 

Sweet Inspirations cassette “Life Affair Trust Music I” La Musica – NM $70

Toshi Ichiyanagi CD “Violin concerto /Rythm gradation/ Portrait of forest” – Camerata – NEW $15

Les Rallizes Dénudés 2CD box “Critical Trip” – Univive – Mint $45