★Amethyst Sunset

"Annual Flowers In Color is a collection of demos and unreleased works from 2011 to 2015. While activity in the Imaginary Softwoods has been ongoing in the past few years, no real definitive album has surfaced since 2011's The Path of Spectrolite. Annual Flowers In Color serves as a compilation of sorts; a scrapbook documenting some of the fruitful experiments happening in private over the years. Various styles including tape collage, spoken word, concrete structure and classic Imaginary Softwoo…

For ten years, Kazuma Kubota has been mastering his blend of harsh noise and ambient and Utsuroi is no exception. Originally released as a limited edition cassette in 2015 by Amethyst Sunset, Utsuroi has been remastered by Joe Panzner for optimum vinyl listening on this edition. From the opening murky industrial stomp of "Kizu", Kubota's layers a perfect mix of noise which leads to a perfectly crafted mix of ambient and cut up harsh noise on "Wasurenagusa". The second side of the record featu…