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Blank Forms - 09: Sound Signatures
Detroit house music legend Theo Parrish, veteran music journalist Mike Rubin, Dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni, composer/performer Akio Suzuki, musician Aki Onda
Publisher: Blank Forms / ISBN : 9781953691170
Author: Blank Forms
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Black Culture, House, India, Japan, USA.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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