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.
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.
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.
Sugai Ken - UkabazUmorezU
The mysterious scenery that Sugai Ken imagines from his home of Kanagawa, Japan takes unusual shape and form in the shadow of UkabazUmorezU’s moon. Sugai̵..(read more)
Label: Rvng Intl. / RVNG CD 040
Artist: Sugai Ken
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Acoustic, Electronic, Japan.
Asuna and Fumihito Taguchi - 100 Keyboards and 100 Record Players
Amazing project that these two Japanese sound artists presented in a space in Carrot Tower, Setagaya, Tokyo in 2016. Asuna placed the 100 (mainly toy) keyboards..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: Asuna and Fumihito Taguchi
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Installation Art, Japan, Minimal Music, Sound Art.
Ueno Masaaki - Vortices
Japan’s Ueno Masaaki debut. “In four concise pieces, Masaaki articulates a unique style of techno apparently taking ‘his musical cue from natu..(read more)
Label: Raster Noton / R-N 117
Artist: Ueno Masaaki
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Japan, Techno, Vinyl.
