Livre Micro Japon – Michel Henritzi

Michel Henritzi Livre Micro Japon Lenka Lente

15 x 19,5 cm – 400 pages

Venu à la musique du Japon à la fin des années 1980, par l’écoute d’Hijokaidan, Michel Henritzi n’a depuis cessé d’en explorer les nombreux et divers territoires. Après sa rencontre avec Taku Sugimoto, il fait un premier voyage au Japon : « Je suis tombé littéralement amoureux de ce pays et de ses musiques, celles de la vie et du quotidien, ses bruits exotiques, ses musiques multiples qui se jouent dans des clubs minuscules, des galeries d’art, des live houses apocalyptiques. C’était comme tirer un fil d’une pelote de laine, se déroulant à l’infini des rencontres, des concerts. L’underground nippon se révélait d’une richesse insoupçonnée, plurielle, innovante. » C’est cette richesse que met au jour la quarantaine d’interviews – inédites ou publiées au fil des années dans Revue & Corrigée, Peace Warriors & Blow Up – de Micro Japon.

Aussi, nous sommes d’autant plus heureux de la sortie de ce livre car certains auront remarqué que Michel non seulement collabore au label An’archives mais il apporte son aide, ses conseils, son enthoisiasme et ce depuis le début de cette aventure. Sans lui, il fuat bien l’avouer les premières références n’auraient probablement pasvu le jour. Depuis des années M. Henritzi est un des passeurs principaux mais aussi un musicien attachant qui au gré des années imprime discrètement sa marque.

Dans le présent ouvrage, on y trouve Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Taku Sugimoto, Masayoshi Urabe et tant d’autres…Hallelujah !

27€

Harutaka Mochizuki + Henritzi & Takahashi Ikuro

Back in stock !

Harutaka Mochizuki CD “Flageolet Ni Tokeru Chocolate” E-Klageto

Limited to 150, comes in a 7 inch art with inserts

Attention : this one of the most beautiful album I’ve heard for months and probably my favorite with Mochizuki. It’s not a sax album, more like a diary mixing some sequences with sax, short songs, melodica and keyboard. If this one is a trip, it’s more like an invitation with meeting a soul in a small place. Nothing spectacular, sometimes  a bit like Namio Kudo, Mochizuki can move us with only a breath or the birth of a melody. Yes we love Mochizuki and find this album being probably his most personnal and poetic one.

$14

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Michel Henritzi & Ikuro Takahashi CD “We were there” E-Klageto

Limited to 150, comes in a 7 inch art with inserts

$14

Makoto Kawashima

Ochibonoame CD “Ochibonoame” – Homo Sacer

Ochibonoame is trio with Makoto Kawashima, Louis Inage & Naoto Yamagishi

Fantastic first meeting, free and it leaves me breathless !

$19

Makoto Kawashima CDR”Circle/ Curve” Homo Sacer

Second edition and new design. Originally released in 2016 this one one of the very first self release that brought some light on Kawashima. If there’s someone in the tradition Kaoru Abe, that’s probably him. Almost a classic Kawashima is a name who’s been growing since and he deserves a wider audience as he’s a poignant player.

$10

Makoto Kawashima CDs

Makoto Kawashima CDR “2020-10-01”

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Makoto Kawashima CD “Homo sacer” P.S.F

Re-stock of the very last CD released  in 2015 by the legendary P.S.F records label.

I can’ t tell you enough how I’m moved everytime I have this CD in hands : I remember how Ikeezumi-san was so excited when this CD was released, how he considered Makoto being as one of the best player from his generation. Different from Urabe, Makoto has maybe a more lyrical and direct style, there’s so much feelings that explode into the listener’s face….

I only have a few copies, no idea if there’s many remaining copies.

$20

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Makoto Kawashima CD “Dialogue” Homo Sacer

Makoto Kawashima CD “You also here” Homo Sacer

Ltd to 100 with no distribution ! Makoto Kawashima is still considered as a new comer but believe me he’s getting stronger and within 2 years (whose Homo Sacer CD was the final release on P.S.F records) he’s been recording some of the most moving music. Somewhere between Ayler, Urabe and Abe but with a very singular lyrical mood between melancholy and rage.  Pick it up before it’s gone for collectors !

$15

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Makoto Kawashima CDR 枯葉 – Homosacer Records

ltd to 50 comes with a postcard

$16

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Makoto Kawashima CDR “Rain” Homo sacer

pro-CDR, this one is  Kawashima’s last statement, he considers this recording has a different one….Kawashima is really as one of the most uncompromised and talented sax player of these last years, he’s almost like a song-teller, far from intellectualism and the usual Kaoru Abe reference. Different from Urabe, slowly he’s showing a true identity.

$14

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

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.

$18

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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…

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Maher Shalal Hash Baz CD

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

$24

.es – Takayuki Hashimoto

Takayuki Hashimoto CD “Chat Me” Nomart

Takayuki Hashimoto is half of . es aka Dot es project with Sara, an Osaka based free impro project. Takayukis playing sax, harmonica and guitar and he’s now in Kito Mizukumi Rouber proto garage punk band. Here’s on this new album we have 2 long tracks, frist on flamenco guitar with a pointilliste approach and the second one is on alto sax. Bith tracks have similitudes with focus on small details and repetitions. There’s a lot of concentration but no headache on the horizon.

Comes in a beautiful single 7′ sized jacket

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.es CD “Vessel of Catastrophe” Nomart

2 Catastrophe tracks with guitar, harmonica, guitar, piano & percussion

Chaotic, threatening, with different sides…Second track with harmonica & piano lost in the space is my favorite !

Comes in a beautiful single 7′ sized jacket

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.es CD “Atlas” Nomart

With Satoshi Ayashi on Laptop

Comes in a beautiful single 7′ sized jacket

$20 only a few

.es CD “Darkness” Nomart 2013

Released in 2013 same year as “Void” released on PSF records, back in stock, only a a very few.

This one is one of the best and maybe it would turn into one of their classic in a decade or 2 !

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.es CD “Ambiguity Sea” Nomart 2016

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Sara CD “Tinctura” Nomart 2015

First solo with Sara with different duos : Takayuki Hashimoto (second half of .es) , Kiyo Satani on cello, Makoto Kawabata (no need to introduce him I guess) , Yung Tsubota on percussion.

$15

Takayuki Hashimoto CD ” Colourful” Jigen

Nice alto saxophone improvisation

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Takayuki Hashimoto CD “Asia” Nomart 2017

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Archeus CD

Archeus CD “Archeus” Haang Niap

Archeu” is a free improvised group of Keiko Higuchi on vocals, Shizuo Uchida on bass, and TOMO on hurdy gurdy. Extraordinary trio ensemble of vocal/voice, bass, and hurdy gurdy triggers an unique chemical reaction of various expressions such as sensitive sound within silence, vocalization of a forgotten and nameless language, interplay of discordant masses of sound, the magic of minimal repetition, and dark/dense drones. They also attempt to improvise with text readings. It is as if the words are given resonance, and appear as a spirit, then seem to melt with the sound. This is a striking debut work of studio recording with instantaneous performances. Highly recommended, we love that new project a lot !

$18

Archeus cassette “Archeus” Haang Niap

$12

Kan Mikami LP I’m The Only One Around

Kan Mikami LP “I’m The Only One Around” Black Editions

The first ever vinyl edition of Kan Mikami’s “I’m the Only One Around” featuring lyrics translated by Drew Stroud and newly translated notes by Alan Cummings. Remastered and cut to vinyl at Elysian Masters Los Angeles, pressed by RTI, packaged in heavy Stoughton tip-on jackets with insert featuring textured paper, gold foil stamping and metallic inks.For over 50 years, Kan Mikami has stood as a master of the Japanese blues and outsider folk. His unmistakable, powerfully evocative voice and surrealistic poetry reveal a gritty, transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocations of sex and violence, religion and romance. Released in 1991, I’m the Only One Around was Mikami’s first album with Tokyo’s legendary P.S.F. Records and heralded an artistic renaissance. It marked the beginning of an incredibly productive and wildly creative era for Mikami that extends to the present day. 

$24

Michael Ranta CD Taiwan years

Michael Ranta CD Taiwan years – Metaphon

Three previously unreleased works from the 1970’s recorded and mixed in Japan and Taiwan.

1-Kagaku Henka (1971) 18’40”
2-China Filch (1975) 27’06”
3-At Night (1978) 23’06”

More than any other of Ranta’s releases this album shows his multiple roots and ideas as a composer, percussionist and concrete/electronic musician, building a seamless bridge between Eastern and Western avantgarde. Ranta is one of those rare composers able to organically melt his wide artistic span into a singular but yet diverse universe morphing his rich vocabulary as a percussionist with the Oriental esoteric tradition, the psychedelic underground and the realm of electronic minimalism.

Michael Ranta: performance and mixing
Recording engineers: Shigeru Sato, Tsutomu Kojima

$18

Otomo -Roger Turner – Seijaku – Hijokaidan

Roger Turner – Satoh Masahiko – Otomo Yoshihide CD”Live at Hall Egg Farm” Doubt

$19

Roger Turner – Otomo Yoshihide CD “Live at superDeluxe” Doubt

$19

Hijokaidan with Akira Sakata CD “Made In studio” Doubt

$19

Jazz Hijokaidan CD “Made in Japan, live at Shinjuku Pit Inn” – Doubt

sold out

Seijaku 2CD “Last Live” Doubt

Keiji Haino + Mitsuru Nasuno + Yoshimitsu Ichiraku

$25

Seijaku 2CD “静寂の果てに” Doubt

$25

Derek Bailey – Mototeru Takagi CD/LP

Derek Bailey – Mototeru Takagi CD/LP Live at FarOut, Atsugi 1987 – NoBusiness

CD $15

LP $24

Sabu Toyozumi – Mats Gustafsson

Sabu Toyozumi 豊住芳三郎 – Mats Gustafsson CD/LP Hokusai NoBusiness

CD $15

LP $24

Takayanagi – Ino – Kikuchi CD

Masayuki Takayanagi / Noboyushi Ino / Masabumi Kikuchi CD Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 NoBusiness

$15