Blacksheep
Yoshida Ryuichi (baritone sax), Goto Atsushi (trombone) and Suga Dairo (piano). 'Blacksheep is a trio group, consisting of Yoshida Ryuichi (baritone sax player in Shibusashirazu Orchestra, Fujii Satoko Orchestra, etc.), Goto Atsushi (trombone player in 'Tokyo Out', 'Denki Slime', etc.) and Suga Dairo (pianist in Shibusashirazu Orchestra, 'Real Blue', etc.). Sometime very beautiful, sometime intense improvisation and sometime humoresque and very serious, this, their first work is made up of prote…
plays the ENKA -woodwind solo
Enka is a style of Japanese popular song roughly corresponding to American blues and country music, French chanson and Italian canzone. The sound of enka is deeply rooted in the souls of Japanese people, and famous enka songs continue to be sung and hummed wherever this music exists.In this album, Umezu's exceptional sensitivity and taste combine with the "world of enka," swirl and eddy, and explode before our eyes. This music has excellent circulation; it leaps with energy. Here, Japan has crea…
Dots
One of their miraculous duo result is their first CD "Territory" (dmf-112, 2006). This work, "DOTS" is even more overpowering, speed, ramified rhythm, edits, and so on. First, they recorded their improvised music in studio, then they overdubbed various sounds, edited the materials and mixed different effects into the tunes. This is the music for the prog rock, math rock, post rock fans. Dense and Fiery !
Empty Can Street Orchestra
latest album by Nobuo Yamada, two tracks come with deserted metal junks by dragging lots of empty cans. track-1 is organic and isolated time passing at underground mining ruin. its metal junks are mixed with environmental ambience at the place purely by chance. track-2 is catching a raw and cold field recorded at a tunnel, unexpected joints of car and road, winds or so on. comes with handmade sleeve, a crushed can is pasted on front cover. …
...Of Dogstarman
1998 release ; duo set by incapacitants’ fumio kosakai & ikuro takahashi “based on stan brakhage movie "dog star man"” ...a single, monolithic piece of itinerant synthesis, never quite getting into harsh noise realms, instead a continuous ghostly blur of steely electronics ... something of a neglected classic by now ...
Hannover Interruption
This album finds Merzbow in full-on, harsh-noise mode, at least at first listen. The more one becomes acclimated to the sound, the more layers of activity emerge: electric groans and roars, bird-call-like feedback, moog sirens, percussive analog static, thousands of pots and pans falling down a hill, even the occasional vocal. It's this artful layering of sound (among other things) that separates Merzbow from some jag-off that just turns on a noise generator and walks away. 1 copy available
The Beginning of the End
It is a rare feeling when music can give you the sensation like a bullet through the head, and you call it a pleasure. But, well, that is what happened when we first listened to these four tracks from 'The Begininng of the End' the new studio album from Japanese garage-psych heroes Up-Tight. We played the disc once and we were speechless. Why? The reason was easy: We got a picture of a band at its creative zenith. The Lp opens with 'Our Own Portrait', guided by mantric drum beating, rigid bass p…
On tour
Taj Mahal Travellers formed by many sorce of member that group act was always and truthfully improvised. Staged many concerts and festivals in european countries from 1971, after this tour, some of main member went a big travel to taj mahal with a station wagon. This DVD is focused on their nearly a year travel with many valuable images. taj mahal Travellers : Michihiro Kimura, Ryo Koike, Takehisa Kosugi, Yukio Tsuchiya, Seiji Nagai, Tokio Hasegawa. This film is legendary documentary of the road…
box is stupid
LAST COPIES remastered from the original dat master-tapes by tommi keränen under the supervision of t.mikawa. 40 page colour booklet with extensive liner-notes by fumio kosakai, t.mikawa, otomo yoshihide and jim sauter. each disc packaged in an individual wallet cover with original cassette artwork. booklet and discs housed in a solid box. limited editon of 500 copies"i love incapacitants more than anything. my love for them is reaffirmed as i listen again to their many cassette releases. they’r…
Othello-3 minutes
Compositions by Masafumi Ezaki. Masafumi Ezaki (trumpet), Shinichi Isohata (guitar), Mitsuteru Takeuchi (flute), Taku Sugimoto (guitar on 1-3). Recorded by Taku Sugimoto at Kobe Art Village Center (Studio 3), March 8, 2008. Edited and mastered by Taku Unami.
Un
1998. First collaboration of this duo with sachiko M on sine waves and Toshimaru nakamura on no-input mixing board.
The Tropics
2nd CD reissue from Showboat of this classic Japanese underground folk-rock album, originally released by RCA Japan in 1971. Great mini-LP gatefold packaging, but very few made and not long for this world. The Tropics was Minami Masato's first record on which he got assisted by Mizutani Takeshi of the Rallizes Denudes, his only appearance on record ever. Minami Masato was one of Japan's first beatnik hippie scum singers, who before venturing into the music world, spent some time in Mexico where …
Septet
Performed by: Takefumi Naoshima (mixing board), Hirozumi Takeda (guitar), Utah Kawasaki (guitar), Mitsuteru Takeuchi (flute), Toshihiro Koike (trombone), Takahiro Kawaguchi (remodeled counters), Yasuo Totsuka (compressor). "Group improvisation mixing acoustic and electric/electronic instruments. Although there are seven players, the music consists entirely of faint sounds and silences from beginning to end. This ambitious recording communicates the strong determination with which the artists con…
Core Anode
Core Anode is the roaring-sound project of the versatile and multifaceted Otomo Yoshihide, who works in genres ranging from free improvisation to jazz to rock to movie and TV music. The CD contains 3 pieces recorded live at concerts in Tokyo (2002), Copenhagen (2006), and London (2006). The players/numbers of players differed at each performance. In all cases, the musicians were outside the audience area, surrounding the listeners, and in all cases they put out nothing but roaring sound. In Tok…
End Of Heavy Groove
An awesome double CDS Part 1_ Unknown Live1976, Part2_1976 Summer, 30, July. UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. ACTUAL CDs - not CDrs.
Mizutani 2
Expanded edition of one of the few official albums released by Rallizes during their existence. The original was made up of select 1973-75 material, but this includes all of the material from the original session tapes, plus a Dec 13, 1980 soundboard recording, and on the 3rd disc, some demos from 1976. Actual CDs (NOT CDRs). 1 copy available
Cable Hogue Soundtrack
limited to 250 copies, compiled by Mizutani in the early 90s (tracks seem to span quite a few years) as a soundtrack to Ethan Mousikes Rallizes film. Players include Mizutani Takashi, Nakamura Takeshi, Nagata Mikio, Shoda Shunichiro, Hiroshi, Mimaki Toshirou Takada Kiyohiro, Noma Yukimichi, and Takahashi Youkai. Actual CDs (NOT CDRs). 1 copy available
Great White Wonder
UNIVIVE is a new, Mitzutani approved, Rallizes-only label. Live recordings from 1974-1976. Limited to 200 copies, 1 copy available only
Live@ Kinjou Gakuen University October 30 1976
Five tracks from Japan's underground psych legends. ACTUAL CD - not a CDR. Semi-official release limited to 200 copies. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.
Archives of Dizastar Sources - Vol 6, # 11 & #12
A series of Rallizes CDs on the shadowy Ignuitas label, from somewhere on planet Earth (we think). These are all regular pressed CD releases (not CD-Rs). Were not sure why, how or whatever. This CD contain Live 1973 and live at New Rock Festival 1974. Long out of print, only 1 copy available.