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.
Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - Ke I Te Ki
Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki have frequently performed together and here is their second duo album since Ma Ta Ta Bi in 2014. The performance was recorded in 2015 i..(read more)
Label: Room40 / RM499
Artist: Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Japan, Sonic Experiments, Sound Art, Spatiality.
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.
