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Kokyu, Voice, Performer [Pieces Of Metal, Metal Board, Mirror, Bronze Rings], Cymbal, Tape [Soundscape At Home] – Chie Mukai
Producer [Concert Produced By] – Ken-ichi Takeda, recorded in 1984
ltd to 100, we only have a very few
$20
Gran Guignol CD “Gran Guignol” + CD ” Live 1981″ + 18 x 18 cm booklet 34 pages
Grand Guignol performed avant-garde performances in a white-faced style reminiscent of dark dance. Based in Fussa, they performed at many live houses, including the legendary live house “Kichijoji Minor,” and were supported by music fans at the time as an artistic band that not only included their music but also their equipment, lighting, flyers, and fashion. However, despite their growing fame, they disbanded in 1981, much to the regret of many.
Grand Guignol’s only LP was recorded in 1981, towards the end of their career, and released by the legendary Pinakotheca label in 1982.
Second CD is the live recording held at Shibuya “Yaneura” on February 13, 1981, just before the band broke up. When they first formed, they repeatedly performed shocking performances with white make-up, but as they performed more than 50 times in total, their taste gradually changed to a pop line. This recording is from their final stage when they were at their most pop, and the finish is a powerful expansion of the characteristics of their only album. It also includes songs that were popular at the live shows at the time but were never recorded in the studio.
Only a very few, ltd to 300 sold out at source
$65
ROLF GEHLHAAR LP “Wege / Ways” – Metaphon
Rolf Gehlhaar (1943-2019) was an instrumental and electronic music composer, and a pioneer in computer controlled interactive music. He grew up in the US where he studied philosophy and composition at Yale University. In 1967 he moved back to Germany to become Stockhausen’s personal assistant and member of his performing ensemble. In 1969 Gehlhaar co-founded, along with Johannes Fritsch (Metaphon 012) and David Johnson, the Feedback Studios in Cologne, a new-music performance center and publishing house. He later moved to England, where he became in 1979 a founding member of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association and later on senior lecturer in design and digital media. Gehlhaar’s compositions include symphonies, instrumental works, experimental and electronic music, interactive computer controlled music and everything in between.
The three previously unreleased tracks on this LP only show a glimpse of the versatility of his adventurous and innovative musical ideas.
The LP comes with a foldout insert including photos and extensive program notes.
$27
TIMO VAN LUIJK – KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN – DANIEL DUCHAMP – LUIS FERIN LP Traces du hasard – La scie Dorée
This album is a bit of an accumulation of coincidences. It is the first recording session I did with Kris Vanderstraeten, back in 1994, together with Daniel Duchamp and Luis Ferin. The session recording had since disappeared from attention and 30 years later, while going through old DAT tape archives, I came across it by chance, initially even not knowing who/what it was… The tape started with a recording of cars, captured from my balcony in Brussels, where I lived at the time. I decided to integrate the cars as an intro to the music session that fitted in seamlessly. Both the recording quality and the musical performance were remarkably good. A lost and found little treasure. It was a refreshing time for me, playing with people from a jazz and free improvisation background. We became good friends;
A few copies $27
coming in the next days
In Camera ( Timo Van Luijk & Christoph Heemann)LP Arrival – La scie dorée
Four years after we got Lost in Spice we reached the point of Arrival. An altar on the surface of the water is burning with flames. Behind it you can see a half of the Earth’s globe, and on it there’s a bright throne. A pale, translucent ruler wearing a crown sits in the throne. The globe is surrounded by a ball of shadows on which sits a larger dark ruler on a dark throne. Behind the globe are mountain peaks, and all of it is reflected in the water. Above the mountains are clouds which merge into rivers and end in a curved horizon on which forests stand, and the sun rises between them. Above this horizon is another sky with lunar crescents and comets. Above this sky are rows of angels bent over, above which the stars shine. The sun shines in the top left corner and the crescent moon in the right.
A few copies available $27
coming in the next days
Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi LP Multiple musics – Metaphon
ltd to 500
Previously unreleased live recording from the Ranta archives. The creative duo of Michael Ranta and Takehisa Kosugi performed many times in the 1970’s and 1980’s. On this outstanding performance, recorded at the Japanese Culture Institute in Cologne in 1987, the application of an advanced multi delay system, independently utilized by both players, plays a central role. The smartly treated cyclic tapestry of the delay system (modulated, transformed, harmonized) injects additional dimensions to the highly coordinated improvisation with voice, percussion, violin and electronics, creating interactive ‘composition-like’ textures being ‘Multiple Musics’.
A few copies $27
Mimic CD Works – Enban
Yasuo Sugibayashi, who has led the band “Kujira” since the early 1980s, played electronic music before forming Kujira. Around 1980, he released two singles and one album, but the albums were completely anonymous, with no artist name written anywhere on the cover, and the solid electronic sounds that could not be related to the rich world of songs that would later become Kujira, were only known to a small number of people as mysterious independent records. Perhaps because the electronic sounds were connected to the later world of electronica and acoustic music, some of the next generation of musicians in those fields whispered about his existence, and this time all of his works have been compiled into one CD. Mastering was done by Taku Unami, and his mysterious activities at that time are revealed in an interview with himself, liberating the unknown early ’80s electro music! After all, he only performed live once at that time! That one performance was the opening act for JUKE led by Shinro Ohtake, which shows his isolation from the scene and his solitary nature.
$24
Stone Music (Tokio Hasegawa) CD July 15, 2022 – Room 40
The first LP by the Taj Mahal Travellers was recorded at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo on July 15, 1972, which became the title of the work and was released the same year by CBS Sony Records.
A live performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of this album was held on July 15, 2022. The only original members of the Taj Mahal Travellers who attended were myself and Seiji Nagai. This is because two of the six members passed away, two are religiously active and they can not play music according to their belief, and the last one has lost touch with us. Therefore, young musicians were recruited to perform with us. This performance was a spark of improvisation that broke 50 years of my silence.
Let me recall a little about the day of the concert. The venue was a live house called Forestlimit Hatagaya, about 20 minutes by car from Shibuya. In the pouring rain, we ended up entering a narrow alley from where it was impossible to reach the place by car, so after unloading my instruments, we had to head back to a wider road and find another route. The venue was small and located on the basement floor. Among performers and stuff members we were more than 10 people, and including the audience, in total about 60 people.
Performers:
Tokio Hasegawa (Voice, Rubab, Stone)
Seiji Nagai (Electronics)
Ken Ikeda (Electronics)
Tatsuro Murakami (Guitar)
Hikaru Yamada (Saxophone, electronics, percussion)
Tyler Eaton (Double Bass)
Munna (Electric Percussion)
Hiromi Yamada (Keyboard)
Hitomi Nishimura (Stone)
Ruka Fujiwara (Gorrilla Voice)
Shuichi Yamada (Bamboo)
Kyou Matsumoto (Shadow)
a very few copies $19
Dead C 2 LPHarsh 70’s reality – Siltbreeze
“Originally seeing the light of day in April of 1992, Harsh 70s Reality was not just a high water mark for that year, but for the ages. Technically this was the band’s fourth long-play outing, and as a double-album, it followed two formidable dual juggernauts of the early 90’s: Twin Infinitives and Lake. But it was Harsh 70s Reality that left the decade stronger and more resonant than it came in. A 2012 anniversary edition-replete w/gatefold jacket-came & went fairly quickly, so in 2023 it was agreed that it should stalk the earth yet again, this time akin to original packaging & viola; this time w/a flat matte jacket finish, insert + updated audio shepherding courtesy of Josh Stevenson (Cindy Lee, Famous Mammals, Puppet Wipes, Alastair Galbraith, etc). To hear it is to understand why one scribe back in the day referred to their sound as “a garbage truck backing over the abyss.”
$27
Sara – Tatsuya Nakatani – Otomo Yoshihide – Toshiji Mikawa CD Soul Boat – Nomart Editions
$16
Sara – Ayako Kanda CD Fujin / Raijin – Nomart Ed.
Interesting duo with voice, piano & percussions
$16
Naoki Zushi CD Live – Advaita
CD reissue with bonus track (previously released on cs in 2021), mastered to suit the CD format!
The original member of Hijokaidan, Naoki Zushi, one of the most prominent underground guitarists in Japan and currently active in Nagisa Ni Te, will reissue a CD of a trio of live performances at the 2006 Gyuune Autumn Festival.
It features performances demonstrating the quintessence of Japan’s psychedelic underground, represented by “les rallizes denudes” and “Fushitsusha.” A heavy psychedelic version of “May a flower bloom” is remarkable; it makes you feel intense passion, completely different from the delicately blooming beautiful version that decorates the end of the 4th album. It is a masterpiece that Zushi himself said, “It might be the best live performance of this song.”
Special packaging ltd version $20
Les Rallizes Denudes CS Citta ’93 Board – Tuff Beats
3 Titles, it’s a different version from the CD and 3LP
$25 sold out
Free Jazz in Japan Book – Soejima Teruto – Public Bath
Japanese free jazz critic Teruto Soejima passed away on 12 July 2014, at the age of 83. Since the late 1960s he had been a tireless booster of free jazz in Japan. In 1969 together with Masayuki Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi and Masahiko Satoh, he helped found the New Jazz Hall, Tokyo’s first dedicated free jazz venue. Unusually, Soejima viewed promotion and production as essential components of his job as a critic, and he was closely involved in record production and arranging concert tours. He enjoyed a particularly long and fruitful relationship with the Moers Festival in Germany, where he arranged appearances by over 130 Japanese free musicians between 1977 and 2006. He was equally committed to promoting Japanese tours by Western free jazz musicians (particularly those from Russia and Korea), including Peter Kowald and Christian Marclay.
$40
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