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New Directions for the Arts CD Projection (The Complete Inspiration And Power Live) – Jinya

A miraculous discovery! The complete live performance at “Inspiration & Power 14” at Shinjuku Art Theater in 1973. Uncut live performance of Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction For The Arts Discography at “Inspiration & Power 14” held at the Shinjuku Art Theater in 1973. This CD contains all the performances of the day, although only the last part of the concert was included in the album of the same title.
Recently, a cassette tape was discovered among the belongings of Masayuki Takayanagi, and Otomo Yoshihide, who once studied under Takayanagi, has restored the cassette tape to its original state – and claimed: “without a doubt, this is one of Masayuki Takayanagi’s best works“

$28

Masayuki Takayanagi – Kaoru Abe CD  – Real Jazz = リアルジャズ – Jinya

Recorded on May – July, 1970, Tokyo

Another “The Disintegration of the Sympathetic”. Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe‘s 1970 studio live recording, 40 minutes of miracle! Miraculous discovery of Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe’s live studio recordings from 1970! A live studio performance of Masayuki Takayanagi’s New Direction in 1970, which began to be oriented toward immediate improvisation without setting up any notated thematic motifs. 40 minutes of continuous performance.
This work is based on sound reproduction of Takayanagi’s own recordings on open reel tapes. The tapes were in a bad condition due to problems with the recording equipment and age-related deterioration, and have been restored. Although there are some parts that are difficult to hear, we have made this work because we consider it to be an important historical record.

$28

Harutaka Mochizuki LP Doppelgänger ga boku wo

LP ltd to 315, black vinyl, color  (blue, red & grey) silkscreened jacket with obi (black or grey), inserts and a postcard

Liner notes by Michel Henritzi

Printed by Alan Sherry

Release date : May 31st,  2024

An’archives is proud to present the latest album by Japanese free saxophonist and vocalist Harutaka Mochizuki, Doppelgänger ga boku wo. Since the early 2000s, Harutaka has quietly, yet steadily, released a string of solo and collaborative releases that have allowed multiple perspectives on one of the most singular voices in modern music. In collaboration, he seems to prefer the duo format, and digging through his discography, you’ll find releases where he pairs with Tomoyuki Aoki (of Up-Tight), Michel Henritzi, and Hideaki Kondo. But Harutaka’s solo performances, with their lyricism and physicality, are where the magic truly happens.

If earlier albums, like Solo Document 2004 (Bishop, 2005) and Pas (no label, 2014), were raw documentations of solo alto saxophone performances, in recent years, Harutaka’s solo albums have become more complex, more mystifying. Most significantly, they’ve become more personal; there are few musicians extant whose albums feel quite so much like diaristic interventions, and Harutaka’s music now is deeply moving in its intimacy. Developing that thread of revelation, Doppelgänger ga boku wo offers a still richer exploration of many facets of Harutaka’s artistry.

The two double-tracked alto saxophone performances here feel consummate, with Harutaka shadowing himself, exploring the possibilities of the multiple self: Doppelgänger is me, indeed. The playing here is rich with affect, but still exploratory, voiced with rigour and intent. Two short pieces for keyboard and voice (about Giacometti and Genêt, respectively) are fragile miniatures, with clusters of chords, and passing phrases, wrapping around Harutaka’s untutored but lovely singing.

The ‘karaoke’ performance that closes the album, of “Woman ‘W no higeki’ yori”, speaks to the iterative aspects of Harutaka’s music. A cover of the Hiroki Yakushimaru song, the theme to Shinichirō Sawai’s 1984 film W’s Tragedy, he’s returned to this song several times, and here, his delivery perfectly captures the spirit of what Michel Henritzi, in his typically beautiful liner notes, evocatively details as “one of those sad love songs that accompany lonely sake drinkers in smoky night bars, sharing their spleen.”

Gorgeous, human, heartrending – Doppelgänger ga boku wo is Harutaka Mochizuki in element and in spirit.

25€

Agencement LP Binomial Cascades – Pico

All instruments played by Hideaki Shimada
violins, viola, cello, contrabass, piano, electronics, and magnetic tape

I just released a new album as my solo project, Agencement. This is a follow-up album to ‘Six Juxtaposed Works’, which was released in 2017 on the Copenhagen label Tochnit Aleph.
It’s been about 35 years since I produced ‘vinyl’ by myself, so it’s very emotional, although since the 1990s, it has become difficult to manufacture vinyl LPs in Japan and there were no channels to outsource overseas because I was disappointed in the situation.
Musically, I think it’s a further step in the direction of ‘October Variations’, released under my birth name in January 2022 on Glasgow label scatterArchive, but you may listen to it differently.
The work began in Autumn 2022 with the recording in the studio, and the final mix was completed about one year later in August 2023.

$25

Omit LP – LP IN-Sec – Siltbreeze

Recorded on an 8-track September/December 2013.

Includes a two-sided black and white insert with illustrations, credits.

Omit’s ‘inSec’ is “new,” but not new. Recorded in 2013, the masters lost in the label’s murky somewheresville that always shows up when moving. For those who don’t know, Omit is an experimental electronics artist from New Zealand’s south island who, since 1990, has released thirty-some xerographed cassettes and CDrs in the Dead C orbit for those who do. It’s not enough to say that ‘inSec’ is an ambient masterpiece bringing to mind a John Carpenter soundtrack performed by the Hub because listening to it engineers new species. 
In this century that flatters itself to be of drinking age, it is a queer thing we haven’t come face to face with aliens.  Besides the xenobiological effects, Omit constructs your sentiment through timbral concepts that repeat and shift with minimal reference to harmony, melody, key, or mode. Streams jump and skitter, knitting tightly high and low in a dense rattling driven to the long and most plaintive tones amongst the countless gizmos (that’s including you, but not “you”). This one is for big fans of Anode/Cathode, Papa Srapa, & Insignia refrigerators. 

$25

太陽肛門スパパーン [Taiyoukoumon Supaparn (The sun,An anus,Splush!)] with Anarchy, Kenichi Takeda (A Musik) , Darthreider, Eiichi Hayashi, Kazutoki Umezu, Meguru Azumino 7″ – チューリップのアップリケ／竹田の子守唄 Left side records

Taiyou Koumon Supaparn was formed in the western part of Tokyo with Masanosuke Hanasaki (singing, guitar, lyrics, composer) as a core member, under the banner of “overcoming the social democratic limitations of Frank Zappa from the left. “They are also known as “Frank Zappa in Omiya.

The “sun” is a metaphor for the emperor, and the “anus” is derived from the fact that Emperor Hirohito, a rare war criminal who was the object of popular resentment, died with blood coming out of his anus.
After that, they joined forces with Yoichi Hirai (guitar), a jazz guitarist known as Japan’s leading researcher on Lennie Tristano and Alan Holdsworth, Nobuo Fujii, a jazz drummer representing Japan, and Kanji Nakao, a trombonist, saxophonist, and rapper representing Asia.
In 1998, they released the CD “Horse and man”. This work, which vividly depicts the corruption of Japanese society from the perspective of a high school student named Noriko, was selected as one of the 100 best Japanese albums at Tower Records Shinjuku.　In 2015, They released the CD “Atomic sunshine”, which critically depicts the structural corruption of Japanese society from the viewpoint of an young lady, as seen through the perspective of the Fukushima nuclear accident.
In 2021, They released a double-LP record, “Requiem for Tsuburaya kokichi,” in order to arouse public opinion against the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Many great musicians performed in the record as below.
Kazutoki Umezu, one of Japan’s leading alto saxophonists (also widely known for his work with RC Succession), who performed with the free jazz unit “The Life of Taiyo Koumon Kawachi,” which was formed by Masanosuke Hanasaki with Kunihiro Izumi (alto saxophone) and Hajime Kobayashi (keyboards) before Taiyo Koumon Supaparn was formed.
Takashi Nakajo, a famous electric bassist known for his famous performances at Theater Brook, Yoichi Okabe, a famous percussionist known for his work with Rovo, Darthreider and Namichie, conscious rappers who are famous who boasts of outstanding intelligence in the Japanese hip-hop world dominated by right-wing nationalists. This album, which invites gorgeous guests such as Kenichi Takeda, the most leftist musician in Japan, also known who collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto,Masaya Nakahara who is known all over the world as Japanese splendid Noize musician.

Only a very few $22

Anne Gillis LP & CD Vhoysee – Art Into life

First Manon Anne Gillis release was a single-sided mini-album titled “Angebiguë”, which was Manon’s self-release in 1983. “Angebiguë” was 6-track mini-album in a cold-minimal-synth vein, and any track from “Angebiguë” were not included in her retrospective 5CD Box “Archives Box 1983-2005”, which Art into Life released in 2015. “Angebiguë” was privately released in tiny edition for her friends only and has been a highly sought-after item among collectors.

“Vhoysee” is Manon’s long-awaited new album, and the album collects her latest six pieces and four re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë”. The latest six pieces are physical subject-based composition with minimum elements, whereas re-worked / re-mixed tracks from “Angebiguë” are simple rhythm-oriented pieces with her glacial sound texture. In “Vhoysee”, the past and present are interwoven and linked together in a kind of labyrinth.

LP $29 – CD $19

Anne Gillis + XT CD  Our/s Bouture(s) – Art Into life

Anne Gillis (Paris) is a composer and performer since the eighties, Paul Abbott (Antwerp ) is a musician, drummer, writer, and Seymour Wright (London) is a saxophonist and writer. In 2021, during Covid restrictions, the trio of Anne Gillis and XT (Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright) developed a piece remotely together for Café Oto online radio broadcast program. A one-hour piece titled “Our/s Bouture(s)” was ‘broadcast’ on 1 June 2021 to online audinece, and we present a complete program with careful CD mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi. The trio’s concept for “Our/s Bouture(s)” is to ‘plant’ sounds and movements, which will grow and evolve through broadcasting, and what you will hear is not a ‘performance’ but a one-hour journey of organic sonic sound structure.

ltd to 200

CD $18