Japan'archives mailorderEddie Marcon EP 7 ‘ ひまわり絶叫/明るい未来を – Pong Kong records 2022
$16 only a few
Eddie Marcon CDR EP あまぐもとほし – Pong Kong records 2023
With Ikuro Takahashi
Only a very few, sold out at source
SOLD OUT
Eddie Marcon CD Kura kura kurage – Pong Kong records 2018
$28
Eddie Marcon CD aoi ashioto Zashokku 2005
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
UP-TIGHT LP Sweet Sister – Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tubes records
“Tokyo psych monsters Up-Tight come out of the classically wasted/drug-damaged school of excessive fuzz and reverb, giving the nod to the endless jam style of Les Rallizes Denudes while spiking their sound with dark downer ballads that owe as much to The Jacks as they do to The Velvet Underground. If you can picture Spacemen 3 circa “The Perfect Prescription” produced by Ghost circa “Temple Stone” then you’re close to the outrageous levels of psychedelic excess captured here. Tomoyuki’s guitar tone has to be heard to be believed, with tactile garage punk crunch put to the service of endlessly euphoric orbits of three droning chords. Up-Tight have been responsible for a buncha the most memorable releases to come out of the post-PSF underground but this has to be their recorded pinnacle, the perfect balance of two chord Velvet downers and strung-out post-Rallizes string violence. One of our records of the year so far- You need to hear this, Highly recommended!” (Volcanic Tongue)
$SOLD OUT
UP-TIGHT & Makoto Kawabata 2LP Cardinal / Feeding Tubes records
Two LPs in single wide-spine sleeve, recorded in Summer 2004 & previously released on CD in 2005
$SOLD OUT
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
Coming soon
Meiko Kaji LP Hajiki Uta – Wewantsounds
Deluxe Gatefold LP Edition with 2p insert and obi
Famous for her early 70s exploitation movies (‘Lady Snowblood’, the ‘Female Prisoner Scorpion’ and ‘Stray Cat Rock’ series) revered by Tarantino, Meiko Kaji was also a singer releasing albums to tie in with her movie career. These albums are a fascinating mix of Japanese Pop and Groove with superb funky cinematic orchestrations as displayed in “Hajiki Uta”. Urami Bishi is probably her most famous song as it was used in Kill Bill 2.
$24
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€
Aso Ai LP “The Faintest Hit” Ideologic Organ
New solo album with Stephen O’Malley & Boris but hopefully she stays herself. First purple edition
$20
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€
Keiji Haino CD “Who knew than so many blues should reside here too…” Hören
25th Nov, Osaka University of Arts – Keiji Haino plays gamelan
$24
Youri Kun is Hiroshi Nar nickname who played bass with some of the most important bands such Les Rallizes Dénudés, Zuni keisatsu, Datetenryu. He’s active as Youri Kun, Portcuss, Molls, Niplets…He released more than 30 releases and he’s a true singularity…Sometimes it soudns a bit like a japanese Jad Fair with a nasal and weird voice, with always one foot in rock n’ roll…
Youri Kun CD Hit Tune – Hören
First album released in 2006
$18
Youri Kun CD Migoku – Hören
2nd album from 2007
$18
Youri Kun CD Su Hören
$18
C.C.C.C. LP Reflexive Universe – Urashima
Deluxe vinyl LP version. Limited edition to 199 copies ** C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) is a legendary Japanese noise music collective that was founded in Tokyo in 1989. The group originally had four members – Mayuko Hino, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai, and Ryuichi Nagakubo – who are known for their unique approach to noise music, and quickly gained a reputation for their intense and chaotic live performances. The group’s sound is characterized by its use of high-volume, distorted noise, feedback, and electronics, as well as their incorporation of unconventional instruments and objects. Beyond their music, members of C.C.C.C. has also been involved in a variety of artistic endeavors, including film, performance and installation art.
C.C.C.C.’s “Reflexive Universe” cassette, released on the Japanese label Vanilla Records in 1991, is a must-have for fans of Japanese noise music. The cassette features one track intense and immersive noise, showcasing the group’s unique approach to sound and experimentation. The album is a 23-minute epic that builds from a fast, almost hypersonic opening to a wall of noise that seems to encompass the entire universe. Recorded live at Maya in Kobe on September 15th, 1991 only with two members performing – Mayuko Hino at electronics and voice plus Hiroshi Hasegawa at synthesizer and electronics. The performance is a testament to the group’s innovative and boundary-pushing approach to sound, and a reminder of the enduring power of noise music as an art form, and Vanilla Records label has done an excellent job of capturing the raw and visceral sound of the group’s live performance.
$25
Japan Blues Meets The Dengie Hundred LP Demdike Stare
Six years since his debut Japan Blues album ‘Sells His Record Collection’, Williams is back – and it’s been worth the wait. Based around enka and minyo recordings made with London based singer Akari Mochizuki and Tsugaru shamisen master Hibiki Ichikawa at London’s Earthworks studio back in 2018, Williams adds field recordings made while traveling through Japan, inviting The Dengie Hundred to co-produce, bringing his own sound worlds into the mix.
The two spent several months shuttling ideas back and forth, processing mixes and adding environmental recordings, like snatched penny whistle melodies or the familiar whirr of an extractor fan. Singer Tamami Pearl is the final piece of the puzzle, providing an almost imperceptibly breathy aura to proceedings. The obsessively researched archivist’s resolve is still very much present, but the processing style and overall sound here is more faded than the Japan Blues of yore, transmuting discernible sounds into magickal textures that boil and bubble until all that’s left is vapour.
On ‘Sazanka, Hokkai Bon Uta’, Japanese vocals are dubbed into bare syllables, juxtaposed with flute improvisations and muddy whirrs. Eventually, the instrumental elements turn to noise, like some shortwave radio transmission slowly falling out of range. Environmental sounds become uneven, clunking percussive currents offer a sort of dream logic, morphing into faint choirs. In the final third, Williams pulls away the veil almost entirely.
The album’s most compelling section is the side-long ‘Soran, AIzu Bandai-San, Shimabara Lullaby’. If you’ve heard Robert Turman’s 1981 album “Flux” – a reel-to-reel recorded slo-mo kalimba and piano masterpiece – you’ll have an idea of how this one rolls. Williams and The Dengie Hundred work into the source material like modelling clay, dubbing and distorting shamisen twangs and echoing vocals into half-speed, dissociated dream visions.
It’s not Ambient by any means, but there are undoubtedly traces of Brian Eno’s earliest, most crucial experiments. It’s not Folk music either, but Williams’ deep obsession with Japanese traditions allows him to integrate sounds holistically, provoking a conversation rather than simply cherry picking aesthetic decorations. He works like a dedicated DJ, giving The Dengie Hundred room to tweak the spaces in-between. Together, they create an atmosphere that’s fiendishly hard to put into words, and even harder to forget.
If you’re into tape-damaged industrial experiments (think Skaters, Spencer Clark, Aaron Dilloway et al), the surrealist global exploration of labels like Stroom, or simply after a new perspective on Japanese folkways, “Japan Blues Meets The Dengie Hundred” is unmissable.
Transparent orange vinyl ltd to 500- $29
Angus Maclise 3CD box Tapes – Art Into life
Angus MacLise, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, was a poet, composer, and a member of The Theatre of Eternal Music alongside La Monte Young. The “Tapes” 3CD Box is the first-ever reissue of a 3-cassette compilation that Pleasure Editions originally released in 2015, limited to only 100 copies. The 3CD box set comes with a miniature poster and track lists, and each CD has a paper sleeve that reproduces the original cassette card artwork.
This comprehensive 3CD box set is over three hours in length and includes session recordings with Tony Conrad and William Breeze (of Coil, Current 93, and Psychic TV), mystical recordings from the filming of Ira Cohen’s “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda” (1968), shortwave experiments, and sounds of Tibetan Buddhist monks recorded by MacLise. The “Tapes” compilation features excerpts from the archives of the Angus MacLise Papers, which are held at Columbia University Library. The archives contain over 100 hours of reel-to-reel tape recordings of live improvised music, theatrical performances, and sound experiments created by MacLise and his associates during the 1960s and 1970s. MacLise produced the original recordings in his own unique style, characterized by rough and peculiar editing. The release is curated and sequenced by Will Cameron and Mark Iosifescu. Jim O’Rourke completed a new sound restoration and mastering of the recordings in 2023.
Special thanks to Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Sheldon Rochlin, Ira Cohen, Rob Ward, Jim O’Rourke, Johan Kugelberg, Tim Barnes, Erica Barnes, Dia Art Foundation,and Robert Bielecki. This official release is authorized by Dreamweapon New York, a project of the MacLise Family Estate.
$42
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