Music from Japan

First release by japanese artist Hideaki Shimada aka Agencement since 2001. "Six Juxtaposed Works“ presents new pieces for violin, viola, cello, electronics and tape. Performed and recorded between 2013 and 2017. Shimada (born 1962) plays violin im…

Limited edition of 99 copies, includes an extensive booklet of artwork and a hand-numbered official certificate. Housed in a black varnished and silkscreened wooden box. This is the friends edition with an additional 7", a cassette, and a long sleeve…

An epic 1984 masterpiece from Masami at the peak of his creativity. & CD set plenty of hectic and lumbering rhythms, weird vocal warble, frantic noise, fucked up grooves, spooky synth ambience, droning chant ranging from silly to sublime, musique c…

Another Merzbow re-issue for salivating Japanese noise junkies, recorded and Mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio in 1983. Merzbow blasts out of the gates with volcanic noise eruptions with all of the violence we can hear in these analog recordings from the …

This album consists of improvisations between Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, who began his career working in Merzbow (when Merzbow wasn't just Masami Akita alone, but he began as the duo of Masami Akita and Kiyoshi Mizutani, who met Akita in high…

Lovely archival recording by this incredible trio comprised of Midori Takada - marimba, percussion Kang Tae Hwan - alto saxophone Masahiko Satoh - piano. Recorded live on the 27th May, 1995 at Design Plaza Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan

A two-CD live document of Jojo Hiroshige solo: two hours of his singular song-and-noise art, voice and roaring guitar fused into one body. The Hijokaidan founder using sound to reach what words cannot. On Alchemy, 2016.

The complete Triple Echo series in one set: three CDs of Jojo Hiroshige's drone project, a concept the King of Noise carried for thirty years. From a single sustained guitar note he draws three subtly shifting tones, minimalist feedback held until th…

2026 stock. The latest effort by the legendary noisers...Incapacitants (インキャパシタンツ Inkyapashitantsu) are a Japanese noise music group formed in 1981. It consists of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, whose stated aim is to produce "pure" noise, uninflu…

In stock! Midori Takada's 1990 collaborative album with Masahiko Satoh, Lunar Cruise. LP version. Marks the title's first ever vinyl release; Cut at Emil Berliner Studios; Housed in a 350 gsm sleeve; Includes CD with all ten tracks. We Release What…

Sound artist Akio Suzuki crisscrosses the world with his self-made instruments. British tenor/soprano sax player John Butcher is a leading figure in improvised music. These two musicians have been carrying out duo performances since 2002. The six tra…

Japanese saxophone transgressor Akira Sakata meets with his long-time collaborator and Fender Rhodes virtuoso Giovanni Di Domenico, Portuguese guitarist Manuel Mota, and drummer Mathieu Calleja for a session recorded at Les Ateliers Claus in Bruss…

For the first time, art-pop goddess Jun Togawa meets on disc noise icon Jojo Hiroshige for a fantastic album, a twin-pronged sonic attack to melt your ears in disbelief. As maddening as one can expect, the music is an invitation to the worlds of both…

Noisy duo improvisation by Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board) and Jun Numata (guitar, oscilator, radio, etc.). This CD shows a difference posture to a sound (noise) frankly between Nakamura and Numata. So it is very interesting duo improvisat…

This is a duo album by Toshimaru Nakamura, a mixer player based in Tokyo, and Martin Taxt, a tuba player living in Oslo. Instead of a conventional tuba, Taxt plays a custom-made “microtonal tuba” capable of producing microtones. In this album, Nak…

Great improvisers reveal a lifetime of experience and artistry in every note. For both pianist Satoko Fujii and bassist Joe Fonda, that brings to bear an estimable history of collaboration with some of the music’s greatest practitioners and travel th…

Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails) and Japanese noise legend Massami Akita (Merzbow) bask in their mutual love for the EMS Synthi, a British synthesizer from the early 70's notorious for it's patch matrix, portability and distinct tone. Astonishing…

Mono-Tone Records present a reissue of Les Rallizes Dénudés's historic performance from 1977 in Tachikawa. This double LP has everything Les Rallizes Dénudés are known for - ear piercing feedback, languid guitar strumming, wild reverberated solos, lu…

This is the first in a series of Enka mood 10" LPs to be released on An' archives. This record is an expression of the soul of a people, an exotic, sentimental journey. To stand aside or take the ride? The decision lies with what our feelings say. Si…

First ever vinyl re-issue of this classic Merzbow album. The first two track were originally published on LP on the ZSF label in 1988. Masami Akita creates in Storage a very experimental and atmospheric album with a masterful use of scraping sounds …