Japan'archives mailorderBeginnings of Japanese Electroacoustic Vol.1 Electronic Music Room (1955-1968) 2 LP Sound 3 co ltd
Essential release with Toshiro Mayuzumi, Makoto Moroi, Yuji Takahashi, Joji Yuasa, Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi, all tracks recorded between 1955-1967 and some tracks previously appeared on the famous 1969 Experimental Music Of Japan Victor compilation.
Expensive, we only have a very few, comes in a gatefold
$60 SOLD OUT
Corneliu Cezar LP ‘Ziua Fără Sfârșit’ – Metaphon
Composer Corneliu Cezar (1937-1997) was a distinctive personality within the Romanian post 1960 avantgarde: a visionary of music, a thinker and a prophet, a richly gifted artist also active with writing, poetry, painting and astrology. Cezar was an activist rediscovering the natural resonance of sound within a different historical context and he embraced the recovery of authenticity as a reaction against the artificialized culture of serial doctrines. When, after 1975 the spectral music trend became official in Paris, with much fuss and
remarkable support from musicologists, nobody knew that this trend has already been practiced by a small group of Romanian composers lead by Corneliu Cezar for ten years. The four electro-acoustic pieces on this album (privately released on CD in Romania in 2000), recorded with little means between 1967 and 1975, display the incredibly strong ideas of a truly visionary artist. Everything Corneliu Cezar has done during his short earthly life bared the shade of authenticity.
$25
Octavian Nemescu 3LP box ‘Passages… à travers le Temps’ – Metaphon
One of Romania’s most important composers in the last half-century, Octavian Nemescu (1940-2020) is among the few that were not “part of the system”, managing to survive and compose in a world that felt more and more “empty”, fragile, confused and scarce in prophecies. The mystical approach to his art defines Octavian Nemescu as an essentialist who believed in the power of archetypes in which he found inspiration. His pieces always start from an idea that has spiritual, cosmogonic implications and often involves synthesizers, sounds from nature (buzz of bees) and the “ison” (drone). When defining “meta music” or “imaginary music”, Nemescu was an advocate of looking from above, from the top of the mountain. Silence is very important in his work in order to keep the sound flowing and to reflect on the sound from before, as a space, as a pause for thinking. Nemescu put forward another kind of music: a song that has not yet surfaced through human voice, any musical instrument, orchestra or other electro-acoustic means: an intimate, interior, introverted inner sound that focuses on the individual and the imagination. Imaginary music is a reaction, it comes in contrast to the spectacular, it is anti-show. For him, music had a ritualistic function, it served no cultural purpose.
This 3LP set collects eight pieces for variable ensemble, tape and electronics, composed between 1968 and 2015, selected together with Erica Nemescu, who also mastered the tracks. Most tracks have been previously released on different CD’s but never before on vinyl.
Box edition of 250 copies :
3LP + 8 page booklet in silkscreen printed hardboard linen box + download code. $110 SOLD OUT
-Slipcase edition of 250 copies:
3LP + 8 page booklet in offset printed slipcase sleeve. $52
Hiroshi Na LP Turkey Necklace – AROE pro / SHIMITTER RECORDS
Ltd to 400 with insert and card
This album composed of tracks that Hiroshi Na (aka: Narazaki Yuji/Kumo Yuri) especially liked from the 8cm CD-R series released in the early 2000s under the official authorization of “Hello Good-Bye Studio” and which are now difficult to obtain. It starts with home recordings made during his junior high and high school days (1965-70), multi-track recordings made with a radio cassette player while he was in the band Zuno Keisatsu (1974), studio demos made during his break after leaving the band Les Rallizes Denudes (1978), tracks provided for a compilation CD on the German label Dom (1992), and tracks provided for a Jon (the dog) tribute CD (2004).
$35
Hiroshi Na LP An Orphan’s Dream – MUSICA JAPONICA RECORDS
Ltd to 400, with insert and a card
This album includes a series of 8cm CD-Rs released by Hello Good-Bye Studio in the early 2000s with the official approval of Hiroshi Na (aka Hiroshi Narazaki/Yuri Kun), which are now difficult to obtain. This album includes recordings of Koi no Karakuri (1977), recorded while he was still in Les Rallizes Denudes , which showed the direction that led Hiroshi to start his own creative endeavors, as well as important live recordings that indirectly complement his solo works under the name Yuri Kun and his work with Niplets, etc.
$35
Mibu Kogawa (Furakawa) LP 壬生／津軽の風と土へ Gousarashi – P-Vine
Originally released in 1978, this issue comes with the booklet, if y u are in Kazuki Tomokawa, Kan Mikami, and “freak-folk”, this album is mix of prayers and screams (dedicated to his lost brother), sometimes with some additionnal environmental sounds, that’s just stunning and it has been keeping me thrilled to the bone for decades. Intense, highly recommended, ltd reissue and we only have a very few
$45
Morio Agata (with Takehisa Kosugi) 7′ Akashiano Amega Yamutoki/Hanayome Ningyou / アカシアの雨がやむとき
– Super Fuji
Morio Agata’s 1979 self-produced single “When the Acacia Rain Stops” and dedicated to Kaoru Abe is reissued on 7-inch for the first time in 46 years, with Takehisa Kosugi, Masaru Watanabe…
Promo copy with a postcard, very limited
$22
Rumors of Noize : Hijokaidan and the Round to 2nd Damascus by Kato David Hopkins – Public Bath
21 x 15 cm, 220 pages
$30 SOLD OUT
Free Jazz In Japan – Soejima Teruto translated by David Kato Hopkins – Public Bath
21 x 14 cm, 365 pages
Yamashita Yosuke, Togashi Masahiko, Abe Kaoru, Kondo Toshinori, and today’s Otomo Yoshihide and Shibusa Shirazu. Japanese free jazz emerged as a flag-bearer of the era in the late 1960s, and produced expressions that were ahead of the rest of the world. This is a documentary/avant-garde trajectory testified to by Teruhito Soejima, who has pioneered the scene as a producer from its infancy to the present day.
The original book was published in 2002. The English version has been significantly revised and updated with new photos. The preface was written by Yoshihide Otomo, and the recommendation on the back cover was written by John Zorn, who is said to rarely praise this type of publication. It is said to have had the most initial orders of any book published by Public Bath Press, and it is certain to become a good guide to Japanese free jazz for overseas enthusiasts in the future.
$40
Faust feat Keiji Haino box CD This is the right path – Old Heaven books
Jean-Hervé Péron – 人声 Vocals / 贝斯 Bass / 原声吉他 Acoustic Guitars / 小号 Trumpet / 水泥搅拌机 Cement Mixer
Werner “Zappi” Diermaier – 鼓 Drums
特邀嘉宾 Very Special Guests：
Maxime Manac’h – 键盘 Keyboards / 吉他 Guitar/ 煤气罐 Gas Cylinder / 手摇风琴 Hurdy-Gurdy
灰野敬二 Keiji Haino – 人声 Vocals / 电吉他 Electric Guitars / 电子设备 Electronics
魏籽 Wei Zi, Tina, 郦亭亭 Li Tingting – 针织行为表演 Knitting Performance
$28
Keiji Haino & Guro Moe LP/2CD ” Drums & Octobass” Conrad Sound
Keiji Haino & Guro Moe double CD with artwork by Aaron Turner.
2nd CD contains one long track only released on CD.
LP $15
CD Keiji Haino & Guro Moe double CD with artwork by Aaron Turner.
2nd CD contains one long track only released on CD.
$9
Kotonashiso LP Umwelt, room
LP ltd to 300, black vinyl, 2 colors (blue, black & grey) silkscreened jacket with obi (black or dark
red , 2 inserts and a postcard
Label : An’archives Réf : [An’49]
Printed by Alan Sherry, liner notes by Jon Dale
Release date : April 4th, 2025
Contact – wholesale : anarchives@sfr.fr – anarchiveslabel@gmail.com – clerouley@free.fr
Shop in Paris & distribution in France : Souffle Continu
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With Umwelt, room, An’archives releases the first vinyl LP by Japanese singer, songwriter and guitarist, Kotonashiso. An elegant collection of seven slow-moving, free-ranging song forms, Umwelt, room is reflective, pensive, and yet has a great, expansive sense of movement, each song’s parameters feeling almost infinitely flexible.
Born in Tokyo in 1984, Kotonashiso began playing music in 2000. After taking a long break from making music between the years 2005 to 2016, he returned with renewed focus, and over the past eight years, he’s toured Japan and Europe, performing in venues, street performances and open mic events. Currently, Kotonashiso plays either solo, on in three separate duos, with Sou Mori, 泥, and Hideya Kyooka, respectively. He’s not released much music, as yet – a single, “in the cavern”, with Sou Mori, in 2021, and a soundtrack to Hiroki Nakajima’s solo exhibition, Ray, the following year.All of this gives Umwelt, Room the feeling of a major statement, a debut shot across the void. The seven songs collected here were recorded in 2024, with a guiding principle, for Kotonashiso, being his desire to “[imagine] the time when people started recording blues and folk songs on analog records,” creating a ghost-like presence in the listener’s room. When talking about the songs on Umwelt, Room, Kotonashiso focuses on a number of concepts, such as prayer, tragedy, ‘the cycle of life’, and the disappearance of the gulf between fantasy and reality.
They’re songs with deep, rich resonance, performed without guile. You might be able to hear, at times, the fragility of fellow Japanese singer-songwriter Hisato Higuchi, or the bluesy touch of Loren Connors in the guitar. However, Kotonashiso’s aesthetic remit is wide, identifying with artists like Bill Callahan, Scout Niblett, Inukaze, and Tomoko Shimazaki, and sharing sympathies with “the psychedelic rock, avant-garde and ambient communities.” Ultimately, though, the pellucid, dream-like songs of Kotonashiso, somewhere between folk, pop and blues, sit, disarmed and lovely, within their own universe.
25€
Tête de Chou LP / DL Tête de Chou (Mark Anderson – Kurumi kido – Arlo Wynks)
LP ltd to 300, black vinyl, 3 colors (greys, silver) silkscreened jacket (chipboard/brown) with obi (Tan or dark brow), insert and a postcard
Label : An’archives
Réf : [An’50]
Release date : April 4th, 2025
Contact – wholesale : anarchives@sfr.fr – anarchiveslabel@gmail.com – clerouley@free.fr
Shop in Paris & distribution in France : Souffle Continu
US : Worldgonemad
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An’archives are proud to announce the release of the debut album by Tête de Chou, the trio of Mark Anderson, Kurumi Kido, and Arlo Wynks. Some may know Anderson for his membership of Greymouth, 番長Taste, Mysteries Of Love, and Suishou No Fune; Kido and Wynks have more personal musical histories, which informs the intimacy and gently exploratory nature of the eight pieces contained here.
The trio’s movements seem spontaneous and open-ended, which makes sense when you consider the organic way they came together, from drinking at their local yakitori joint, to Anderson and Wynks “mucking around as a duo in the studio on a semi-regular basis,” the former recalls. Kido then joined to form Tête de Chou. She was learning ichigenkin and shō, and when Anderson and Kido organised some small-scale shows in their tatami room, "extending that to us [three] making a bit of a freeform racket wasn’t a stretch,” says Anderson.The album itself was predominantly built from material drawn from two recording sessions, one each in Japan and New Zealand. These tracks were further augmented by several long-distance collaborations. Anderson reflects that, as Wynks was on the road, the album “almost ended up a bit of a travel diary for him.”Wynks recalls the exchange flowed both ways: “Mark and Kurumi sent me recordings that I added things to and/or added to pre-existing things to create a few more tracks.”That might explain the mobile terrain covered by the album. It’s an album of snapshots, at once vivid in their performance, and obscure in their methodology.Organ drones tussle with field recordings; thin streams of noise rub up against clanking metallics; whispering, wistful reeds drift alongside warping strings and a tickling glockenspiel. There’s a fair breadth to the instrumentation here: in addition to what’s already mentioned, you can add microphone, mini-amp, dulcimer, guitar,shehnai, violin, and ‘two-stringed goatophone’.Placed together, the eight pieces here form an elliptical narrative that’s far from easy to pin down, but infinitely pleasurable to listen to, a kind of home-built, humble electro-acoustic pastorale, and an impressive, unexpected first shot across the bow.
25€
Z.O.A LP Night’s Wanton Spider – Grand Fish
Last and final album by Japanese goth/avant-garde/progressive rock band formed by Seiichiro Morikawa (Chi To Shizuku) in 1984. Ltd edition, we only have a few copies
$38 SOLD OUT
Les Rallizes Denudes LP Yaneura Sept. ’80 – Tuffe Beats
Blue vinyl with Japanese edition with exclusive A3 poster
We only have a very few $49
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