Terumasa Hino Quintet 7 inch  33rpm “Snake Hip Extented Play” Super Fuji

The original version of “Snake Hip” popular as the highest peak of jazz funk and jazz rock in Japan . This is  the soundtrack of the 1970 movie “Hakuchu no Syugeki”.

Performed by Terumasa Hino Quintet
Terumasa Hino : trumpet (A fine trumpeter influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, Terumasa Hino has long been considered as one of  the best Japanese jazz musician.
Takeru Muraoka : tenor sax
Hiromasa Suzuki : el-piano
Kunimitsu Inaba : bass
Motohiko Hino : drums

$19

Style To kill EP 7 inch 33 rpm OST Super Fuji

Branded to Kill is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara and Annu Mari.
This soundtrack composed by Naozumi Yamamoto (he was also a conductor and a long time collabor of Suzuki) has unique and bold sounds like harpsichord and harmonica, as well as accordion and viola.
Vocal : Atsushi Yamatoya
Music : Naozumi Yamamoto (1932-2002)

$19

Phew LP “voice Hardcore” Mesh Key

Limited vinyl edition with beautiful, silver foil stamped covers and double-sided, full color inserts. Comes with mp3 download card.

Living legend Phew follows up her brilliant Light Sleep album with another masterwork – Voice Hardcore – comprised entirely of her iconic, instantly recognizable voice, twisted, folded and layered over six mesmerizing tracks.
“A woozy, opiate-soaked stumble into a sparse dreamworld” – The Wire Magazine

$22

Jun Konagaya LP  ” Memento Mori” Steingklang Industries

New solo album from GRIM mastermind Jun Konagaya! More nuanced than Grim, there’s some great & sad love songs on it.
Black vinyl in sleeve with inlay, ltd to 200

$16

Fuji Yuki LP “Orient” Bambalam records

FUJI YUKI is a Japanese female vocalist as know as member of the ethereal drone pop duo “Sarry”. She is influenced by ancient music, Buddhist ritual music, Krautrock, Progressive rock, Noise music and abstract experimental music. Vocal style is including a little unusual singing approach – minimal  – phrase repetition, voice drone, etc.
Makoto Kawabata (acid Mothers Temple) presents Fuji Yuki :
“If it were possible to project sound through a crystal, it would probably sound something like this. Like a book of prophecy where multiple speculations are blended together, its intimations and allusions left obscure. And at the same time it’s like infringing some taboo by creating a rapport with memories of a distant, past life. Weird hymns that waver between curiosity and dread.”
-Makoto Kawabata-

$17

Squimaoto LP “Squimaoto” Bambalam records

Squimaoto is a female trio from Kobe, Japan formed in 2003. They have been preparing their comeback for 2017 with the help of Kawabata Makoto who has been remixing and adapting their album, soon to be released on vinyl .
Just by hearing the first few notes of the album, the chaos seems overwhelming.
However this chaos is in fact quite controlled. It is synonymous with loops, permanent returns to square one, then a few detours, and recurring pitfalls.
The rhythm, the beat is square, obsessed with symmetry and despite the icy echoes of a distant guitar, the cymbals hammer a cadence which is neither brutal nor lazy. That’s where the uneasiness resides. This mated rhythm sends the listener on an opioid-fueled trip back to the heyday of indie rock.

$17

Ike Reiko  7inch 45 rpm “Girl Boss blues…” Solid

Ltd to 500 and sold out, one of the famous Pinku eiga actress directed by Norifumi Suzuki at Toei studios. Song written by the still underrated Ichiro Araki. It’s a hit, move very very fast as I only have a few of these 2 singles.

sold out

Miki Sugimoto 7 inch 45 rpm “Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa” Solid

Nice artefact by this second well known actress, with “Onna bancho nagaremono”.

Ike and Miki have both stared in numerous “sukeban” films throughout the 1970s and helped build a generation of “Toei porn”. Miki wasa A fashion model and star of “Go Go Girl in All Night Fuji” (a Japanese TV program), she made her film debut in “Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha” and was later known for her film “Zero Woman – Red Handcuffs”

Only a very few, sold out at source, ltd to 500

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Mamitori Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San LP 25/12/2013  Bruit Direct disques

Live album by Japanese group Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San, savagely DIY and autonomous, Mamitori have to this day released only a handful of copies of a privately pressed record, while lead guitarist Aritomo has put out an abundance of self-produced acid-folk records for which he carefully assembles every sleeve by hand. The album ”1 2 3 Fairy TailChimidoro Phenomenon Satan Inferno Dress ha CattlemurareteYggdrasillHaWaSasaru” was immediately noted by David Keenan who compared it to “Isn’t Anything being creepy-crawled by Idiot O’Clock or the early Rough Trade singles as curated by Jutok Kaneko and Reiko Kudo.” Members are : Tadasuke Iwanaga : Vocal, Guitar / Kenji Itagaki : Drums / Aritomo : Guitar, 12 string guitar / Shingo Nakata : Bass /
Ai Tsuchikawa : Guitar.

$15