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Keiji Haino – Oren Ambarchi- Jim O’Rourke 2LP “Caught in the Dilemma…” Black Truffle

$30

Shizuka CD 妄想の楽園 | Paradise of Delusion

Offset 7 ” jacket with screened obi (dark blue or dark red)

Edition of 500

Release & shipping date : Nov 25th

Paradise Of Delusion, the first vinyl release of the music of Japan’s legendary psych-pop group Shizuka, originally appeared in June 2021. Long-awaited, the LP sold out almost immediately, and already changes hands for three-figure amounts. An’archives is pleased to announce a CD edition of Paradise Of Delusion, making this music accessible again to a wider audience. Drawn from a 2001 performance at Binspark, Nishi Ogikubo, Paradise Of Delusion is gorgeous and otherworldly.

Shizuka first came to wider attention at roughly the same time as their peers in the Japanese underground – during the early nineties, when people started to get wise to the surprisingly wide-ranging post-psychedelic sounds from the PSF label. But even by the standards of their closest peers, aesthetically speaking –Fushitsusha (with whom they shared two members, Maki Miura and Jun Kosugi), Kousokuya, Chè-SHIZU – Shizuka were mysterious.

Led by the late Shizuka herself, a guitarist, vocalist, song writer, and doll maker, with her husband Miura, a devastatingly powerful guitar slinger, their songs were potent and seductive. Shizuka’s slow iterations of simple chord changes, with her psalmic vocal melodies over the top, suggest an existential exhaustion, often torn asunder by a soaring surge of guitar from Miura. Think the happy-sad mood of the Velvets’ third album, or a more languid Les Rallizes Denudes. Whatever is happening here is relentlessly private, psychologically introverted in many ways, but opened out to the possibilities of both beauty and despair – two states that the music of Shizuka best captures.

14€

Guo Yongzhang LP Zhuizi Selections

Born in 1945, Guo Yongzhang is a true maestro of Henan Zhuizi, a traditional Chinese talking-singing art that has a history of over 100 years. Almost blind, he plays Zhuihu and Zhuibang to accompany his own singing. His vocal style is peculiar, resounding yet smooth, adopting various types of arias from traditional local operas such as Shandong Bangzi and Shandong Zaobang, and he always sings with deep feelings and great verve.

Originated in Henan, Zhuizi is included in the national intangible cultural heritage list and has been popular in Henan and its nearby regions. Its main accompaniment musical instrument is Zhuihu, a two-stringed bowed instrument made of wood, and secondly the Zhuibang, a wooden percussion played with foot tapping. Since Zhuihu has a wide diapason with a soft sound and relatively high volume, the performer can use it to imitate the voice of human and animals.

$49

BBB & BBB, Dan Lao, Li Daiguo CD+DVD Hu nian An Yu – Old Heaven Books 2020

老丹 Lao Dan – 笛子 Dizi / 萨克斯 Alto Saxophone / 杜杜克笛 Duduk / 鸭哨 Duck whistle / 人声 Voice
李带菓 Li Daiguo – 琵琶 Pipa / 预制钢琴 Prepared Piano / 塔布拉鼓 Tabla / 地鼓 Bass Drum / 人声 Voice

Fantastic and beautiful music from the Chinese scene and nifty packaging;

$20

Majutsu No Niwa 2LP Frontera – New Vague records 2012

Gatefold sleeve, 180g vinyl with Fukuoka Rinji (Overhang Party), Morohashi Shigeki (Usurabi, Bromm Dusters…), Kageyama Hiroyuki

$15

Maher Shalal Hash Baz CD “It’s all over now, Baby blue – Archeion books

live at Shinjuku loft, Tokyo, 2001.03.09

Came with 8P booklet.
The jewel case is spray-colored.

It has my one of my favorite song : “What’s your business here, Elijah”

$24

Maher Shalal Hash Baz CD 1986.2.23 -M.S.B.H direct sales

New limited archival CD just released in Japan, comes in a handmade jacket

SOLD OUT

Andrew Chalk cs “Dreams” Faraway Press

$12

Andrew Chalk cs “Light of the World” Faraway Press

wraparound cover, 3 tracks.

$13

Andrew Chalk cs The circle of days 5- Faraway Press

$12

Elodie cs ” Le nid doré : musique ne scène IV” Faraway Press

Andrew Chalk & Timo Van Luijk recorded in Kulta Saha 2017, wraparound cover

$13