Sugai Ken & Lieven Martens - KAGIROI
Collage of Sugai’s field recordings of folklore performances, recordings of his own plus additional percussion and strings by Jeroen Stevens and Roman Hie..(read more)
Label: Edições CN / ECN 31-2
Artist: Sugai Ken & Lieven Martens
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Field Recordings, Folklore, Japan, Sound Collage, Tapes.
Takehisa Kosugi - Live Improvisations
Takehisa Kosugi (1938-2018) first emerged onto Japan’s avant-garde music scene during the 1960s as part of Group Ongaku and the Fluxus movement
Label: Slowscan / Slowscan Vol. 53
Artist: Takehisa Kosugi
Medium: 2LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '70s, '90s, Avant-Garde, Electronic, Fluxus, Japan, Vinyl.
Toshimaru Nakamura and Yan Jun - Oh my God, and Yours
Beautiful release on Yan Jun’s Sub Jam label. Toshimaru Nakamura was the first one that I ever saw using a no-input mixer, already in the 1990s. What exac..(read more)
Label: Sub Jam / subjamlp002
Artist: Toshimaru Nakamura and Yan Jun
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: China, Feedback, Glitch, Japan, Noise, Vinyl.
Blank Forms - 05: Aspirations of Madness
Brooklyn-based organization Blank Forms initiated this periodical in 2017 to bring together never-before published, lost, and new materials as a supplement to t..(read more)
Publisher: Blank Forms / ISBN: 9781733723541
Author: Blank Forms
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '70s, Avant-Garde, Composers, Japan, Minimal Music, USA.
Tenniscoats - Music Exists, Disc 1
A duo that have enjoyed a long career in the music scene of their home country of Japan, and have captivated music lovers of all ages throughout their existence..(read more)
Label: Alien Transistor / N49
Artist: Tenniscoats
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Japan, Songwriters, Vinyl.
Lorraine Plourde - Tokyo Listening – Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City
Tokyo Listening examines how the sensory experience of the city informs the way people listen to both music and everyday, ubiquitous sounds. Sound studies, anth..(read more)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press / ISBN: 9780819578846
Author: Lorraine Plourde
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Anthropology, Japan, Sonology, Urban Culture.
Stephen Barber - Film’s Ghosts – Tatsumi Hijikata’s Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan
Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection. Tatsumi Hijikata, initiator of the ‘Butoh’ performance a..(read more)
Publisher: Diaphanes / ISBN : 978-3-0358-0147-7
Author: Stephen Barber
Medium: Book
Categories: Books & Magazines, Films.
Tags: '60s, Butoh, Film Theory, Japan, Performance Art.
Miki Yui - Mills
Delicately crafted from field recordings, synthesizer, solar oscillator and sampler, Japanese artist Miki Yui recorded 6 pieces for this album. She is known for..(read more)
Label: Cusp Editions / Cusp 006
Artist: Miki Yui
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Analog Synth, Electronic, Field Recordings, Japan, Vinyl.
Miki Yui - Oscilla
Hand stamped unique cover! Fifth full length solo album from 2015 of Japanese artist Miki Yui who has a background in fine arts, drawing, installations, and, ev..(read more)
Label: MY / MY 01
Artist: Miki Yui
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Ambient, Field Recordings, Japan, Tape Experiments, Vinyl.
