Marewrew - Ukouk
A female vocal group that sings traditional Ainu songs (Japan). The songs, have been passed down through generations exclusively through oral tradition.
Label: Pingipung / PINGIPUNG85
Artist: Marewrew
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Japan, Traditional, Vinyl, Vocal Art.
Sugai Ken - Tele-N-Tech-Da
LP from 2018. Great artwork by Evan Crankshaw on the cover! In Sugai Ken’s own words (translated):”In recent years I have been researching old Japanese cult..(read more)
Label: Discrepant / CREP55
Artist: Sugai Ken
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Electronic, Japan, Vinyl.
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.
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, Cinema, 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.
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.
