Grim
Grim is the solo noise and industrial project of the Japanese musician Jun Konagaya. He started it after White Hospital, the noise duo he had formed with Tomosada Kuwahara in the early 1980s. His work moves between industrial music, power electronics and noise, and draws on Whitehouse and SPK as well as the traditional folk music of Tibet. Grim released the EP Amaterasu on G.A. Propaganda in 1985 and the album Folk Music on Eskimo Records in 1986. The 1987 EP Message turned toward pop and folk songwriting across six tracks.
Aliases: Jun Konagaya
Folk Music
*100 copies limited edition* Originally released in 1986, Folk Music stands as one of the most uncompromising statements to emerge from the Japanese industrial underground. Created by Jun Konagaya after the dissolution of White Hospital, the album marked the beginning of Grim as a singular and fully autonomous project. Influenced by the early extremity of SPK and Whitehouse, Konagaya developed a sound built from metallic percussion, distorted bass pressure, detuned organ textures and heavily pro…
Magnolia's Dream
Limited edition of 75 copies. Comes as white shell tape with pro print, 6 panel j-card, clear jewel case. Normal bias tape. Final product shrink-wrapped and with hand-numbered sticker. Having released a small body of work in the mid-80’s, Grim are a cult name among the pioneers of Japanese noise and power electronics. The one-man project returned in the 2010’s, and has since then released a number of well-received albums and EP’s, including six albums on Steinklang.
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Organ
Tip! *99 copies limited edition* Taking immense pleasure in unveiling the exquisite vinyl reissue of Jun Konagaya's seminal solo album, titled Organ. Originally presented in 2012 on the CD digital medium, this opus marks Konagaya's inaugural solo venture, distinctly departing from his earlier collaborative endeavors under the monikers Grim and White Hospital. A prodigious figure in the Japanese noise and industrial landscape, Grim left an indelible mark in the 1980s with its dark, luminous allur…
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Amaterasu / Tsukuyomi
Tip! *300 copies limited edition in a deluxe wooden box* Prepare to embark on a sonic odyssey as we unveil the official reissue of Grim's groundbreaking Amaterasu 7". A visionary one-man project, crafted by Jun Konagaya, Grim transcends the conventional boundaries of industrial music, power electronics, and noise. Emerging from the ashes of the legendary White Hospital, Konagaya's artistic trajectory spans nearly three decades, with a unique ability to draw inspiration from a diverse array of in…
Message
Tip! *Limited edition of 199 copies. White vinyl 2023 repress* Grim is the one-man project of Jun Konagaya - formed from the ashes of White Hospital, his legendary early 1980s noise duo with Tomosada Kuwahara - which, accepting a long hiatus in the middle, has bridged the worlds of industrial music, power electronics, and noise for nearly three decades. Belonging roughly to the first wave of Japanese noise, Konagaya is particularly noteworthy among his peers for casting an eye further afield, dr…
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White Mountain Face
*300 copies limited edition* Second album on OEC by the Japanese master. Grim is the solo project by Jun Konagaya, active in the Japanese & international Industrial scene since the early 80es. Grim is a very versatile and chameleonic project that can change style and sounds very suddenly, from Industrial to Japanoise, from ambient to P/E... With GRIM there always are big surprises and new discoveries. And also with this new album sound and art-work are completely unexpected. "White Mountain Face…
Tokyo Hallucination
*300 copies limited edition* Tokyo Hallucination was first released in 2021 and sold-out immediately. Hence: here we go with a second print of such masterpiece for all who missed it. A Psychadelic journey through Tokyo between ecstasy & hallucination... Best Experimental-Industrial by the Japanese master. Sounds are rumbling and beating with far rhythms, sampled voices of city ghosts & spirits. Cut-ups by deformed animals, blinking lights, fast moving geisha’s, blood and drugs…Like a Japanese Bu…
Psycho Sun
**last copies, reduced price** Psycho Sun was the first new album of Japans Noise-Pioneers Grim since 27 years and their sound did not loose a single quantum of power in all those years! In the mid 80ies Grim released three incredible milestones of Industrial Noise music, the LP "Folk Music", as well as the 7" "Amaterasu" and the more folky 12" "Message". These three releases always were and still are the "holy grail" amongst the most wanted collectors-items of this genre. Short history:…
Memento Mori
**restocked, reduced price** Full length third album from Jun Konagaya, a mastermind of Grim / Eskimo Records. Contains 10 tracks of brand new songs & recordings created in 2016.Black vinyl comes in 350gr sleeve with 12" size printed inser. Limited edition of 200 copies
Maha
The famous Japanese ritual industrial noise pioneers Grim are back with a fantastic new double-album! The album contains an insanely brilliant mixture of psychotic rhythms, schizophrenic vocals and powerful industrial songs in typical old school Grim style. This double-LP comes in a mega-heavy coated Japanese-style gatefold-cover, with an 8-page booklet in the middle and original Japanese innersleeves. Limited to 200 copies.
Travel
Jun Konagaya is best known as GRIM, but in 2012 he published a story and CD called “Organ” about a young girl called Magnolia and a monster called Gamahead. “Travel” presents the second part of the story. Several years have passed and Magnolia has set out on a journey, where she records the many things she sees and hears. It is unclear whether her journey is real or imaginary, and as she wanders between dream and reality she stumbles across some ruins in the middle of a forest. Her feet carry he…
Divine Music for Sleeping + Field 1987
Grim is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL, as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records."Divine Music for Sleeping + Field 1987" features the best kept secret material on 10 tracks in total, strictly selected from two cassettes "Divine Music For Sleeping" and "Field 1987" both contains initially released on Eskimo Recor…
Vital 1983-86
GRIM is one of the primal projects in the history and the realms of Industrial Music in Japan. Originally founded in early 80's as a solo moniker by Jun Konagaya, one half of the founding member for WHITE HOSPITAL as well as a mastermind of the label Eskimo Records. "Vital 1983-86" delivers 11 tracks of cryptic studio & live recordings produced in 1983 - 1986 and initially released on Eskimo Records in 1987 confidentially. Each track straightly correlates with "Amaterasu", "Folk Music" and also …
Beautiful Morning
Two fantastic tracks from the Japanese industrial pioneers, featuring members of White Hospital and Vasilisk. Limited to 243 copies on clear vinyl.
Love Song
"The singularly strange storytelling power of Jun Konagayas unit GRIM had been largely overlooked until haang niap records "Folk Songs For An Obscure Race" compilation of the groups early 80s material. Konagaya restarted the group in 2009 and these are their first new recordings - and a full album to boot. Split release between Art Into Life and Eskimo Records! A story in 8 volumes, ripe with deviant madness and gathered salvic capacity. Handmade clock artwork by Konagaya - each one is di…
Organ
This is Jun Konagaya (a.k.a. GRIM )s first solo album. GRIM released collection of complete sound sources from hanng niap records in 2009. and insanity live performance was resumed after it. And having been released this time is not GRIM but a solo Jun konagaya name. Atrocious feedback/roaring cannot be heard there. "Organ" The malformed story about floating folk song of malformation, such as "Message" of GRIM. Inner surface of the universe is filled with deep sorrow of Jun konagaya, has been ex…
Vital 1983-89
Grim is an absolutely amazing, almost skizophrenic and obscure power-electronics and noise-one-man project of Jun Konagaya. Jun’s sound change its mood and athmosphere in seconds. From extreme harsh and hard power electronic noise-walls to ingenious folk-songs and tunes as you know it from Charles Manson.In the very early 80s Jun formed White Hospital together with Tomosada Kuwabara. They released one album called "Holocaust" in 1984 and split. At that time Jun had already released the „Vital“ T…
Folk Songs For An Obscure Race
Destined to be one of the top 3 reissues of this year. Once White Hospital disintegrated, the unit split up into Vasilik – being Tomosada Kawahara and Grim being Jun Konagaya. This first official reissue of the complete Grim catalogue presents a sick slice of industrial noise fumes. Treated percussive rattles, drum pounding, throbbing bass lines, pulses, detuned organ slashes and voices from beyond the grave make up the sonic palette of this aural assault. In way the sounds resembles to the firs…