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TOMO CDr Esoterica I – Veltz Produkt

First version was released in 2010, with saxophone and Hurdy Gurdy by Tomo who plays with Archeus

comes in a grey box with insert

$18

Taeko Tomioka CDR Monogatarinoyounifurusatohatooi – Label On Demand

Please note that’s an official ltd re-release with a pro duplicated CDR

An avant-garde masterpiece (produced in 1977) in which the young Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborated with contemporary writer/poet Taeko Tomioka on the eve of YMO’s formation.

Only a very few, $29 SOLD OUT

Daisuke Tobira CD ギター (Guitar) Bumblebee records

Sweet and introspective lo-fi avant folk from Osaka and originally released in late 1999, this is considered to be a monumental and yet very mysterious relic: virtually nothing is known about Tobari outside of these minimal recordings and the few photos that accompany them. Tobari’s outsider status only adds to the enigma behind these recordings.

$30, we only have a few copies

Sara (.es) 3 CD box Utsunomia Mix Nomart Editions

CD 1Sara & Toshiji Mikawa

CD2 Sara & Kimihide Kusafuka

CD 3 Sara & Wamei & Seichi Yamamoto

$48 we only have a few

.es (Sara & Takayuki Hashimoto) CD Vessel of Catastrophe Nomart

comes in a 7′ jacket

$20

.es (Sara & Takayuki Hashimoto) CD Darkness Nomart

$18

.es (Sara & Takayuki Hashimoto) CD Ambiguity sea Nomart

$18

K2 & .es (Sara & Takayuki Hashimoto) CD Blackhole – Musik Atlach

$16 SOLD OUT

.es (Sara & Takayuki Hashimoto) CD Senses complex Nomart

Sara (.es) Esquisse – Nomart

$18

Sara + CD Tinctura – Nomart

With Kiyo Satani, Makoto Kawaba, Yung Tsubota & Takayuki Hashimoto

$16

Takayuki Hashimoto CD Colourful – Nomart

$18

Takayuki Hashimoto CD Asia – Nomart

$18

Takayuki Hashimoto CD Chat me – Nomart

comes in a 7′ jacket

$20

Takayuki Hashimoto CD Signal – Nomart

Harmonica improvisation

SOLD OUT

HUH LP “You don’t need magic “An’archives

[An’36] March 31st

12″LP black vinyl, comes in a 2 colors silkscreened jacket with obi (black, red, green tea), inserts and a postcard. Edition of 285

Printed by Alan Sherry & liner notes by Jon Dale

HUH are the wild, freeform duo of Kyosuke Terada and Takuma Mori. Based in Tokyo, and playing together since 2007, HUH have released a clutch of cassettes, CD-Rs, and digital albums; they’ve toured Europe (in 2017) and Australia (2019); and they count amongst their collaborators the likes of T Mikawa of Incapacitants, ASTRO, and Government Alpha. You may know Terada from his duo with Shizuo Uchida, MAI MAO, who recently released an LP on An’archives, but he’s super prolific, performing solo and in groups like The Obey Unit, Bay City Rolaz, Praymate, Terror Shit, Death After Death, and more. Takuma Mori also records solo and is one half of duos Cosmetic i and Don’t Let Me Fantastic.

So, they’re busy, energetic musicians – but even that doesn’t quite explain the bustling energy and furious dislocation of the music they make together as HUH. It’s incredible, brain-blatting stuff, moving at a fierce clip between ideas, instruments, and styles – on a track like “Jewels in blue pee”, for example, a plunking banjo riff is repeatedly effaced by stumble-drunk drums, rumbling bass, and incongruous, high-wire blasts of electronics. There are voices in here, but they’re often mangled and distorted; rarely comprehensible, they melt into the unpredictable structures Terada and Mori build out of their junk kit.

HUH call themselves ‘free-form freak-out / noise improvisation’, and there’s a touch of the Familiar Ugly in the collective stammer and stutter central to their music. They’re remarkably untroubled by anyone’s expectations, resulting in a music that’s as confusing as it is compelling, full of clamour and vigour, but never for the sake of it: these seven improvisations, sometimes song-like, sometimes careening and hyperactive, sometimes smeared and abstract, all make their own kind of perfect un-sense. Line them up next to similarly puzzling yet enthralling gutterpunk improv units: Smegma, Bone Cure, Nihilist Spasm Band, Crayon Skidder. 

24€

Jean Noël Rebilly & Andrew Chalk CD Tsilla – An’archives

Edition of 300, comes in a mini handmade gatefold jacket

Catalogue number : [An’41]

Mastered by Denis Blackham

“On Tsilla, Jean-Noël Rebilly and Andrew Chalk pay homage to the late French writer and engraver Cécile Reims. While she may be best known as interpretative engraver for surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, and she also worked with Leonor Fini and briefly for Salvador Dali, Reims’ most powerful and enduring works were made either in collaboration with her husband, the writer and artist Fred Deux (who signed their collaborative work “cf deux”), or by herself. Later works by Reims, like the L’Elan Vitale suite, or the Histoires Naturelles series, manifest denuded, obliterated landscapes; spiralling abstractions; engravings that shiver with an unearthly radiance, where etchings of great intricacy hint at intimacy and the velocity of rapture, before opening out to aching empty spaces. The music on Tsilla is similarly evocative, a tender weaving of emotional complexity carved with the hand-held and simple tools of artisans. Much like Reims, Rebilly and Chalk enact a similar transfiguration of base materials. For Reims, natural order is made “more sinuous and curious through the rounded flow of her graver,” Kate McCrickard once noted. For Rebilly and Chalk, these seven pieces, cast under the shadow of a great artist, inhabit that sinuousness, and tease out the eternal flow of tone.”

Jon Dale

Contact – wholesale : anarchives@sfr.fr / clerouley@free.fr 

Distribution / wholesale : France : Soufle Continu shop & label : contact@soufflecontinu.com

and available from ;

UK : This Ain’t Distribution / Japan Blues / ICR Distribution

15€

 

Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk

CD The Painter’s Family

 Label : Mould Museum

Catalogue number : MM 03

Edition of 300, comes in a mini handmade gatefold jacket with obi

Recorded 2008-2016, released on cassette in 2018.

Recorded 2008-2016 and originally released on cassette in 2018.

The Painter’s Family is the first duo release from Andrew Chalk and Francis Plagne, recorded intermittently, both together and apart, over eight years, in Hull, Melbourne and various places in Japan. Eight pages from the sketchbook, sequenced into two languorous side-long suites.

Mastered by Joe Talia.

“He tried by every means to come close to nature, lying in the fields before daybreak and until nightfall in order to learn to represent very exactly the red morning sky of sunrise, sunset and the evening hours”

Available from ;

andrewchalk.bandcamp.com

distantimpression.com

icrdistribution.com                (UK)

anarchives@sfr.fr / clerouley@free.fr 

Soufle Continu shop & label : contact@soufflecontinu.com   (FRANCE)

Distribution/wholesale please contact ;

anarchives@sfr.fr / clerouley@free.fr

or

ordersfarawaypress@yahoo.co.uk

andrewchalk.bandcamp.com

15€

Andrew Chalk CD Dreams

 Label :  Impression Lointaine / Faraway Press

Catalogue number : FP 037

Edition of 300, comes in a mini handmade gatefold jacket

Dreams, subtitled Scenes I-XV, captures imaginary scenes and sequenced into a full album of 52 minutes length at Impression Lointaine.

Dreams being archaic and unpredictable in its composition, such as dreams themselves that make little sense upon waking and assembled using time limited constraints.

And while immersed, and in privacy, form a thread of personal communication like a nostalgic memory-a painting of which we inhabit ourselves.

 Many things of the past

Are brought to my mind,

As I stand in the garden

Staring at a cherry tree.

Piano by ;

Tom James Scott (Scene VIII)

Timo van Luijk (Scene XIII)

Mastered by Denis Blackham

Available from ;

andrewchalk.bandcamp.com

icrdistribution.com                (UK)

anarchives@sfr.fr / clerouley@free.fr 

Soufle Continu shop & label : contact@soufflecontinu.com   (FRANCE)

Distribution/wholesale please contact ;

anarchives@sfr.fr / clerouley@free.fr

or

ordersfarawaypress@yahoo.co.uk

andrewchalk.bandcamp.com

15€