Japan'archives mailorderMibu 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
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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
Tori Kudo -2LP Studio Village Hototoguiss 2007-2022 – Bruits Direct Disques
Matsuyama in Ehime is the birthplace of haiku, and to this day, haiku submission boxes are placed around town. Young people gather in a haiku society-like manner. In other words, they observe and contemplate well, but their approach is generally instant, casual, and somewhat careless. There is a local disposition here, which they call “yomoda” in the dialect—a blend of humor and sadness. It’s as if they pretend to agree to demands in a laid-back way, all while delaying the big decision. It’s a matter related to the moment and ethics.
Near the famous Dogo Onsen is Studio Village Hototogisu, named after the magazine Hototogisu started by Masaoka Shiki, the father of haiku. The studio was once a large psychiatric hospital, which Mr. Tsuru, the owner, completely remodeled, turning the third floor into his music studio. Tsuru-san is both a psychiatrist and an avid enthusiast of classic rock. He’s a broad-minded adult who also accepts my type of music. About once or twice a month, I randomly select an instrument or device from his vast collection, gathers whoever happens to be around, usually his family, and in about two hours, we record and mix a piece. This album is a compilation of those recordings. The album cover is designed after Matsuyama’s specialty confection, “Ichiroku Tart.”
From around the time of the pandemic, I started layering his dobro guitar or mandolin over my tracks on purpose. The mainstream and the fringe—once opposing camps—merged after this pandemic, a convergence in rock history that’s etched on side D of this album, reflecting the current global situation.
Could a society of free-verse haiku poets sharing both love and resentment for Matsuyama be possible? It’s a question that touches on the future course of nationalism. (Tori Kudo)
A very few copies available $32
Keiji Haino x Natsuki Tamura CD What Happened there ? Libra records
Haino on voice & guitar with Natsuki Tamura on voice, trumpet & Toys
Only a very few $26
Andrew Chalk LP Dioramas
LP ltd to 350, black vinyl, 180g, offset jacket with obi, large insert and a postcard
Label : An’archives
Réf : [An’47]
Release date : January 24th, 2025
On Andrew Chalk’s new album for An’archives, Dioramas, he returns to the art of the
miniaturist, after the long-form exploration of 2024’s Songs Of The Sea. It’s an
appropriate mode of address given the title – each of these fifteen pieces indeed
feels like a replica of a specific scene, rendered in miniature. As with much of
Chalk’s music, they set out to explore humble terrain, a thread of melody in slow
motion, or a weave of texture, sometimes in aquatic repose, moving like slow tides.
There’s a becalmed warmth to much of Dioramas, along with some curious
developments: a pronounced folksy lilt to the melody that’s turned over and over, like
a jewel slowly spinning on a dial, in “The Carrach”; the lush churchiness of the organ
in the hymnal “The Changes”; the stretched strings that quiver and whisper on the
closing “Lonely House”. These subtle changes can seem profound at first blush, but
they simply highlight aspects of Chalk’s music that we sometimes miss; they
eventually settle into the scenery.
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Sô-Si Suzuki + Jun Morita CD La musique de la cruauté – Les Disques d’Ailleurs
A very strange and nicely produced album, fully dedicated to Antonin Artaud, using his voice, mixing noise, ambient music, deconstructed classical musics…An entire opera, witl a lot of details with some unexpected changes..That’s a thing !
$22
Sachiko Nagata + Jun Morita CDR Moiré – Wine and Dine
Sachiko Nagata came from a musical family, and she was brought up with western music. After she graduated from Percussion Department, Tokyo University of the Arts and started her career as a professional percussionist of classic music.
Then, being driven by her inner desire, Nagata tried variety styles and types of music from ethnic music, creative music by iron or bamboo, improvisational music and others.
Morita is a Tokyo-based electric music performer and nightclub DJ specialising in world, popular and experimental music. He has released several solo albums using modular synth and works with the Japanese label φonon. Described as staging a fall, his work reflects a wide variety of musical interests. He has worked as a mastering engineer for a project to reissue shellac recordings of African music, and has worked with bands from the underground scene such as GRAVESTYLE & TACO .
CDR pro duplicated and printed
$15
Jun Morita & Maimo Rity CDR I refuse to adult today – Wine and Dine
Kind of a battle between heavy and nicely produced electronics with a young musician singing, yelling, howling, playing guitar. Hijokaidan like for the Underground Tokyoït Z generation ?
$15
Jun Morita & Maimo Rity CDR We received complaints about the noise – Wine and Dine
CDR pro duplicated and printed
3rd collaboration and as noisy as the previous meetings !
$15
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