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Mouse On The Keys - An Anxious Object [Machu Picchu] Limited Edition CD (Little is known about the mysterious trio that goes by the name of Mouse on the Keys. Their names, Akira Kawasaki (drums, keyboards, piano and of Nine Days Wonder) Atsushi Kiyota (keyboard, piano) and Daisuke Niitome (keybord, piano). The songs of instrumental drum and piano, sometimes jazzy, sometimes almost classical, other times sounding like a soundtrack to a rainy drive through the heart of a city. Whatever they do, it's a dark and grim journey.)

Enemies - Alpha Waves [Machu Picchu] Japan Edition CD with Bonus Track (Enemies are a new irish based post rock four piece and the album features some lovely meandering post rock sounds with a bit of everything from the early jazzy like vibes of tortoise to the more hard hitting explosive sounds of the redneck manifesto. the album six extensive post rock workouts with plenty of clever twists and turns along the way. features some beautifully intricate guitar interplay and complex jazz like rhythms.)

VA - Hub Opus Tokyo [Op. Disc] 2CD (Hub Opus Tokyo, a double-CD compilation bearing ample samplings of its distinctive techno. Yes, the label's style is in one sense minimal—many cuts are stripped-back to skeletal beat structures and bass lines, and fragments of melodies, electronic noises, and samples—yet the label's artists still manage to spin endlessly inventive and captivating variations on the theme. Some of the contributors—Radiq, Dublee, Ditch, Aoki Takamasa, Takuya Morita, Ryo Murakami, and Dartriix, for example—have released previously on the label while others are newcomers. Intensifying the groove factor, some of the twenty-one tracks (most in the seven-minute range) sprinkle jazz spice over strutting minimal grooves, and dress up the material with percussive touches, claps, synths, electric piano noodling, and voice samples and edits.)

The Late Parade - In Chase of Red Beads [Carroway] Japan Edition CD with 3 Bonus Tracks (The EP from 2007 was highly praised both in Denmark and internationally, especially in Japan. Which resulted in a lot of sold EPs and a long list of concerts including both SPOT and Roskilde Festival last year. On the album, In Chase of Red Beads, The Late Parade has developed their sound from the highly praised EP. According to the band the sound has gone from “quiet to elevating”. The music of The Late Parade is sensitive and insisting. The lead singer Rune Vigil’s vocal is a superior falsetto with a very broad spectrum. The beautiful vocal and the weight of the drums make out the focal point of the band’s melancholy songs.)

The Crayon Fields - All The Pleasures Of The World [Rallye] Japan Edition CD with Bonus Track (In true Crayon Fields style, they have delivered two delightfully indie pop singles that don't grate on the ears with annoying bubblegum cuteness. All the Pleasures... is not as dominated by percussion like most tracks from their last album Animal Bells, preferring a guitar driven melody that retains it's sweet charm through singer Geoff O'Connor's quiet and sensible pop vocals. This track in particular is reminiscent of late Kings of Convenience but with a more danceable quality.)

Julian Abelar - The Julian Abelar [Octave Lab] Japan Edition CD with Bonus Track (Julian Abelar taps into the possibilities of dance music for the now. But this is nit the sound of a "Nu Age". It is an excavation of ancient practices aimed at stopping the world. Julian brings with him from the mountains of sonora a systematic sequence of soundscapes to reacquaint the body with the energy surroundings it. As the records moves through a number of initiatory rhythms, the listener/seeker acquaints himself with the hidden dimension of inner space. All movement is inwards. towards the source. Julian uses a combination of sounds that are neither organic nor synthetic but end up fulfilling both extremes and spectrum in between. Pineal beats with a shamanic bounce.)

Goldmund - Corduroy Road [P*dis] Japan Edition CD with 2 Bonus Tracks (As Goldmund, Kenniff has disregarded the electronic elements of his music almost entirely in favour of just a piano, a microphone and occasionally a guitar. ‘Corduroy Road’ is thirteen tracks of pure recording, the sound of the piano being opened and the feet on the pedals, the sound of fingers pressing lovingly onto the keys. This is a record of rare and unusual beauty, so shocking and yet unpretentious in its simplicity. When the guitar does emerge from beside the delicately touched piano, it serves as a balancing point for the record. Weaving in and out of the melodies, it adds another layer to what is already incredibly moving music.)

Cuushe - Red Rocket Telepahy [Flau] CD (The much anticipated debut album by the multi-talented Cuushe, “Red Rocket Telepathy”. Although “nostalgic” may be a word that most would use to describe this wonderful album of Cuushe, but her music is actually deeply rooted into the genre of dream pop….perhaps a much more broken type of dream pop. Start right from the beginning of the album, the feathery voices of Cuushe float in between the cleverly placed electronics sounds and gracefully sampled noises and field-recordings, carrying out melodies after melodies that are truly sublime and captivating. These beautiful electro-infused dreamscapes may vaguely remind you of cokiyu, tujiko noriko or even Björk, but it is also an undeniable fact that in this album, Cuushe has crafted some of the most uniquely exquisite pop sounds that you can ever find in today’s indie music scene.)

Orla Wren - The One Two Bird and The Half Horse [Flau] CD (The One Two Bird And The Half Horse' is the second album from Orla Wren. Recorded over the last two years in the environs of an isolated cold water cottage in the Scottish hills, it develops Tui’s happy obsession with rendering the minutiae of nature into sonic form, combining the oldest, wonkiest most organic of possible sound sources, instrumental or otherwise, fashioned into textures of pinprick detail. A wide array of stylistically disparate musical and vocal collaborators, from places as varied as Japan, the Georgian Republic and 'down-home' U.K., lend their weight to the process, alternately spooking and soothing the music, filtered through Tui’s “wires” into an intensely colorful democratic weave.)

Implosion Quintet - The Future Sound of Yesterday [Cookshop] CD (Implosion Quintet is singular fivesome James Baker, a British musician now residing in Norway. Following a scattering of tracks on the Cookshop label, we're proud to present his highly ambitious & accomplished debut album, 'The Future Sound Of Yesterday'. Driven by a short attention span & love of prog, proto-metal, jazz, electronica, klezmer, tango & everything in between, IQ takes us on a bizarre journey through said styles infused with a cinematic quality lending it the feel of a soundtrack to some long forgotten cult eastern European flick. This is undoubtedly one of the most dizzyingly unique records to come round in quite some time...)

Yucatan - S/T [Happy Prince] CD (Yucatan clearly gaze with wonderment at every night sky as if it's the last they'll see, counting the stars one by one until it's mapped to memory. It's up there that Yucatan will sound at its most perfect, when the only object of note against an ocean of darkness is our own Earth. Llwyd's music is that transcendental when at its finest, and we're already looking forward to album number two and more of the same, if not just more.)

Jim O'Rourke - 実録・連合赤軍 あさま山荘への道程 [Solid] OST CD (Recorded at Steel Room Tokyo and Sear Sound. Mixed at Steel Room Tokyo. Soundtrack to Koji Wakamatsu's 2008 film "Jitsuroku: Rengo sekigun" (United Red Army).)

Itaru Oki - Phantom Note [Doubt Music] CD (A long time out of printed OFF BEAT label LP is reprinted on CD. Itaru Oki visited Paris, France in the 70s and when he came back to Japan temporarily in '75, he organized a elite free jazz troop and recorded in studio. "Phantom Note" is his 3rd album, more straight, heavier and flamed out free jazz than experimental music part of his 1st "Satsujin Kyoshitsu (Murder Class)" or 2nd "Shirasagi (Egret)". Especially, the tune called 'Kodai Tenmondai (Ancient Observatory)' which Gozo Yoshimasu read his poet has a vigorous voice and playing, and it will move your heart surely. The masterpiece on '75 in Japan.)

Masayuki Takayanagi 高柳昌行- The complete works of JOJO - Action Direct 1[Jinya Disc] DVD (A live footage which recorded the ultimate noise music performance "Action Direct" by Masayuki Takayanagi, an unparalleled guitarist who played an active role in Japanese jazz music scene since its beginning. Filmed by Yasunori Saito and Kyoko Saito at the New Direction for the Arts Regular Concert Vol. 69 (1, 2) and Vol. 70 (3, 4), August 4 and December 17, 1990. NTSC, region free, stereo, 41 minutes.)

Keiji Haino 灰野敬二 / Makoto Kawabata 河端一 / Tatsuya Yoshida 吉田達也 - Live at Mission's [PSF] DVD (Second release by a new super-group featuring Keiji Haino, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins). Recorded live in Tokyo in December 2008. An hour's worth of sharply photographed alternately dense, brutal, coruscating and beautiful interplay from three of the hardest hitters in the Japanese underground, with the interplay between Haino's scalding, molten darkness and Kawabata's crunch and ripple particularly invigorating. For those confused by the title, the trio's previous release on Magaibutsu was entitled Ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade ('Until one and one come to overlap'). This one is Ichi to ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade ('Until one and one and one come to overlap'). Just so you know. Fifty-nine minutes. Region-free NTSC DVD.)

Tori Kudo 工藤冬里 - Piano Solo, He Would Come Home Through The Window, Job in Hand [PSF] CD (Solo piano album from Tori Kudo of Worst Noise/Guys N Dolls/Maher Shalal Hash Baz et al. Tori’s style relates to both free jazz and classical composition, albeit elevating ‘errors’ to the status of creative prima materia. Some of his playing here sounds a little bit like Muhal Richard Abrams’ early AACM recordings, that same slightly off sense of melancholy, a quality which the boxy nature of the recording gives further emphasis to, giving the performance a nice alone-in-a-room ambience. Kudo plays fairly gently, chasing fortuitous ghostly ideas up and down the keyboard, now stuck on a simple repeating melody, now spreading out into elegiac waves of stumbling exegesis.)

Li Jianhong 李劍鴻 - Classic of the Mountains sad Seas [PSF] CD (Two totally *wailing* 30 minute plus tracks of narcotic guitar evisceration from this prodigious Chinese psychedelic/noise guitarist. Described as an “avant garde mandala” this is closest to Munehiro Narita’s splurging freeform wah-wah attack style, with Jianhong tearing screaming melodic guitar patterns from a vortex of fuzz suspended over a doomy single note drone. The second track has a more screaming E-bow drone style that is nicely brain rearranging. Easily the most full-on psych out/PSF style release from Jianhong this far.)

New Miminokoto - All About Mimi [PSF] CD (Woah – some kinda upheaval in the ranks of Miminokoto results in the replacement of Masami Kawaguchi with Suzuki Junzo (Astral Travelling Unit/Overhang Party) on guitar and vocals and then they only go and cut an unbelievable album for PSF with no less than two (!) cover versions of Kousokuya tracks penned by the late Jutok Kaneko. To say that this is precisely my kinda deal is state the bleeding obvious. One of the things that always made Miminokoto stand out was the languorous, sun-swallowing vocal style of Kawaguchi and Junzo does a great job of approximating his post-Jim Morrison style.)

Wax Poetics #35 June/July MAGAZINE (On the covers, front: Roger Troutman, back: Booker T. Jones. Contents: Editor's Letter, Re:Discovery, El Michels Affair, Broken Keys, STS9, Glass Candy, Lord Finesse, Ralph MacDonald, Booker T. Jones, Byron Lee, Mahavishnu Orchestra, E.Z. Mike Simpson, Def Jef, Roger Troutman, Analog Out." 104 pages, full color, high gloss, incredibly well done & essential. 35th issue of this U.S.-based production.)

Oliver Huntemann - H-3 [Ideal] 2CD (German producer Oliver Huntemann presents his third solo artist album -- his first full-length release on Ideal Recordings. Huntemann had great years in 2007 and 2008, with remixes for The Chemical Brothers, Depeche Mode and Underworld, as well as arguably the biggest track of the year in "Dios," co-produced with Dubfire. On to 2009, Huntemann continues his career-long form with H-3. Consisting of two CDs and 15 full-length tracks, H-3 is unpretentious dancefloor music which combines elements of techno, house and electro to create a long-player which truly captures a sound that only the artist himself can claim as his own. Linear, driving arrangements, metallic synths and shuffling rhythms twist throughout while fractured melodies occasionally surface, resulting in something which sums up Huntemann's personal journey through electronic music through to his veteran status as producer and DJ. With a passionate belief in letting the music do the talking, Huntemann has kept a low personal profile, hand-picking projects he can invest in properly, and H-3 is the superb result.)

V/A - Oz Days Live [OZ] 2CD (New CD reissue of the super-rare 1973 2LP set commemorating 'The 'Oz Days' benefit festival for the owner of Tokyo's legendary Oz Rock Cafe, which had been shut down after one too many drug busts'. Authentic packaging, with hand-stamped outer bag and gatefold insert. The Les Rallizes Denudes and Taj Mahal Travellers sides have been briefly reissued before -- here's the complete picture!" Other artists featured here: Miyako Ochi, Acid Seven and Minami Masato.)

Masahiko Satoh & Soundbreakers - Amalgamation [Drone Syndicate] CD (Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50, available again for the first time in over a decade! Over two side-long tracks, shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity. Located at the centre of Amalgamation's giddy sessions was the frantic Detroit drumming of hard-bop legend Louis Hayes, whose role it was to play the bubbling ever unfolding fundament on which Masahiko Satoh's whole trip proceeded, as though the rhythm section were a magic carpet magically pulled out from under the feet of the other performers. Over this rhythmic shaking, Satoh scattered Hammond organ around and ring-modulated* his Fender Rhodes piano solos (*Roland built three especially for the record), added lead guitar from 'super session' legend Kimio Mizutani, trumpets and sax from Mototeru Takagi, scat singing from Kayoko Itoh, and strings from the Wehnne Strings Consort.)

Träd Gräs Och Stenar - Homeless Cats [Subliminal Sounds] CD (Just in time for Träd Gräs och Stenar's ("Trees Grass and Stones") 40-year anniversary, the Swedish psychedelic trance-rock pioneers release a new album, Homeless Cats. The first one in 7 years, and the seventh since they began in 1969. Eleven boundless tracks with organic music for open minds. Träd Gräs och Stenar create their own contemporary music, even if they have been compared to Krautrockers like Can and Faust, internationally. Rhythmic, and heart-pounding for sure -- but at the same time, peculiarly Swedish, with their roots in the mold and soil, and with branches that reach high up into the clear air. In the meaty album booklet, they give us a couple of personal travelogues. Träd Gräs och Stenar have evolved a clear and mature sound with space enough for both suggestive heaviness and mind-expansion.)

Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter [Self-Released] CD (It Doesn't Matter is the follow-up to 2005's The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore, and the fourth release from American post-rockers Saxon Shore. The sound of this new, five-member group was what Saxon Shore wanted to capture with a new album. It Doesn't Matter was recorded with producer Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Flaming Lips) in the Tarbox Road Studios cabin, located in the backwoods of Cassadaga, NY.)

Konntinent / Adam Flynn - If I Could Buy A Map of Hope... [Sonic Pieces] CDr (Adam Flynn delivers 2 pieces of utter drone classa with some seriously deep textures and resonant soundscapes rolling through the tracks. They follow each other beautifully and create a soothing, yet slightly dark envelope of depth. Seriously fine. Konntinent provides the remaining 4 tracks and they really are simply lovely. Using an electronic / organic style they feature live manipulated guitar and super processing to give it all life and charm. Melodic to the core, these tracks have a sort of Green Kingdom-esque feel to them (listen and you'll see what I mean). A wonderful CD that won't be hanging around too long, so snap it up while you can. *Packaged in Handmade hardcover Gatefold, Limited to 100 copies!)

Lotus Plaza - The Floodlight Collective [Kranky] CD / LP (Deerhunter's guitarist / songwriter Lockett Pundt delivers his debut solo album and it's really quite a fascinating work. Taking influences from '60s psychedelia, shoegaze, indie rock and, inevitably, Deerhunter, he's put together a friendly and warm collection of songs that certainly wear their heart on their sleeve. Kind of hippyish at times and certainly something that fans of Animal Collective will enjoy - definitely on a few of the tracks as it has that slightly out there, old-school vocal harmony stye - it's all the better for these flavours being added into the mix. A heartfelt and really nice guitar album all round.)

Motohiro Nakashima - We Hum On The Way Home [Schole] CD (An outstanding instrumental ensemble and the melody gems made out of family-love. After 3 years, the awaited latest comes out!! After the release of his 1st album “And I Went to Sleep” from Lo Recordings, and “I Dreamt Constellations Song” from its affiliated  LoAF in 2006, finally the awaited new album is about to release from schole. While the tunes of guitar and piano take a leading part, there are instruments such as violin, cello, clarinet, trombone, and percussion for creating beautiful ensemble. As you all may see in its title, “family” is the theme of this album. Putting a warm loving feeling towards to his family, Motohiro Nakashima expresses and makes every listeners recall their scenes or memoir with this piece of work.)

Neils Children - X. NEC [Vinyl Junkie] CD (Perfectly fusing the bands darker edges with more melodic sounds, this is one of the most exciting albums to come from the London underground scene in the past 10 years. Finally. It’s been a long wait but well worth it. The new Neils Children album ‘X.ENC’ has been honing itself in the isolation of a warehouse in Hertfordshire. The band returned to their hometown with a PC, microphones, guitars and drums to record there masterpiece. They describe the album as “the ultimate Neils Children record” and they’re not wrong. The album fuses their trademark vorticist post-punk with dark, tribal atmospherics and all out post-Big Black noise . With influences ranging as far as A Certain Ratio, The Whispers, Alton Ellis and Josef K, the album is as dynamic as Neils Children promised is would be. *Japanese Edition with 3 Bonus Tracks.)

Dietmar Dath & Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Im Erwachten Garten [Staubgold] CD (Kammerflimmer Kollektief team up with the author Dietmar Dath, who went from journalism (he's an erstwhile editor of the German magazine Spex and the daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to writing both novels and non-fiction. This album finds him reading out an unpublished 'alternate version' of his novel Die Abschaffung Der Arten (translated as The Abolition Of The Species) with musical contextualisation provided by Kammerflimmer Kollektief. The hour-long album plays out like a duet of sorts between Dath (the reader) and the music itself. While parts of the disc play out like a radio production with the Kammerflimmer component operating as a lulling bed of sound design, certain sequences take over from Dath's narration altogether, ascending into beautifully formed passages of electronics and instrumental improvisation. Of course, to get the full effect of this record a decent working knowledge of the German language would be fairly essential, but even we notoriously monolingual Brits can enjoy the interplay between Kammerflimmer's refined electronic post-rock and the human voice.)

Three Trapped Tigers - EP 8 [Rallye] CD (A five track EP plus 3 bonus tracks from Three Trapped Tigers has just given me a much needed adrenalin rush with its screeching guitars and big volume changes... Then a hugely infectious keyboard melody, cascading drums and incredibly complex arrangements. They really do sound like a clever bunch. There's bits of Trans Am, Battles, Trumans Water, The Skin Graft label, Laddio Bolocko all in there but their sound is genuinely unique. Constantly shifting in direction stradling both noisy and melodic rock templates with a light smattering of electro pop. Imagine if Squarepusher joined your favourite Math rock band they might sound like track 3. This may well appeal to folks that like 65 Days of Static's blend of Rock and electronics. Exciting stuff that deserves your attention. *Japanese Edition with 3 Bonus Tracks.)

Takahiro Kido - In My Time [Ricco] CD (In this album, the avante-garde track maker Takahiro Kido uses a Glockenspiel or as it is more commonly referred to as, a music box. This gives the album a fantasy feel to it. Takahiro Kido is a sound artist, recording and mixing engineer, a designer and programmer for webs from Tokyo, Japan. You can hear various instruments in the album and they all have rich textures as he records these instruments in very unique situation like in the tunnel, mountains, abandoned hotel lobby - He is very conscious about the colorful and diverse reverberation of the nature.)

Takahiro Kido - A Short Happy Life [Ricco] CD (Takahiro Kido releases the minimal A Short Happy Life. Filled with subdued sounds and ambiance, this is an album for those looking for that which is far out of their mental grasp. Takahiro Kido is a sound artist, recording and mixing engineer, a designer and programmer for webs from Tokyo, Japan. You can hear various instruments in the album and they all have rich textures as he records these instruments in very unique situation like in the tunnel, mountains, abandoned hotel lobby - He is very conscious about the colorful and diverse reverberation of the nature.)

Yuki Murata - Films [Ricco] CD (Yuki Murata's first solo release through Ricco label. This pianist and composer released her first solo release "Films". Yuki Murata is regarded highly by greats like Ryuichi Sakamoto and has won numerous awards. Marked with beautiful piano and mixing by none other than Takahiro Kido handling the mixing of the album.)

Cru - re-Silence [Ricco] CD (re-Silence is a brooding masterpiece that is only made possible by the two geniuses behind it, Yuki Murata and Takahiro Kido. This album is what is called 'post-classical'. re-Silence should especially be appealing to fans of Claude Achille Debussy and Arvo Pärt.)

Mokyow - Variations For Spiegel [Ricco] CD (Mokyow as a band was formed in summer 2007 by Takahiro Kido, Takahiro Matsue and Tadashi Yoshikawa they were one of the members of Anoice that is six piece band in Tokyo, after desire to make freer music with the expanse more. mokyow is making music mainly on the instrumental music using modern technologies and many type of acoustic instruments or often guest Vocals.)

Swoop Swoop - Somewhere In The Shadows [Metal Postcard] CD (This is Swoop Swoop’s 2nd album. His debut was released under the moniker Streaky Jake in 2006. Swoop Swoop lives in Perth and likes to read, surf and write songs. He has performed live in Perth, London & New York. Swoop Swoop’s ’It’s spring’ is a beautifully steeped soured romance of sorts - acoustically drawn, spectral and haunting as though Bruce Springsteen's ’The ghost of tom joad’ had been magically invested with the numbingly mercurial mindset of June Panic. ’Tomorrow we triumph’ comes across like a lost 60’s folk troubadour and discovers Swoop Swoop finding the dusty bottle containing the mercurial essence of Donovan’s wayward but beguiling song craft only to ever so gently unscrew the cork to release the genie within.)

Popular Computer - Senso Data [Rise / Octave-Lab] CD (Popular Computer is a duo consisting of Parisian producer Sylvain DALIdo and his computer.  The name Popular computer fits this musical persona completely. Sylvain DALIdo creates an amalgam of pop music and shiny retro-futurist electronic dance, the world he creates is a fantasy of sophistication and technological elegance. Following this Sylvain DALIdo and his computer got more exposure via the Kitsune Maison series and his remixes for the likes of Mylo, New Young Pony Club, Hot Chip, and Midnight Juggernauts. *Japanese Edition with 3 Bonus Tracks.)

V/A - Environ : Selective Amnesia [Octave-Lab] CD (Selective Amnesia is a 12 song Japanese only compilation of stuff from Morgan Geist's Environ Records. Material spans 2001 to 2007. Incl.Metro Area, Morgan Geist, Daniel Wang, Kelley Polar...etc, most of tracks just first time on CD and unreleased version. *Japanese Edition Release Only / Most of tracks are released on CD at the first time!)

Flica - Windvane & Window [Schole] CD (Take the scent of a Sunday morning air, add a touch of an after-rain breeze, multiply it by the silent beauty of a couple of seashore sunset but removed the over-powering awe that surrounds it, and add a pinch of urban avant-garde grandeur, you’d be somewhere close to Flica. Windvane and Qindow captures Flica’s impeccable ability to balance simple playful musical creativity with subtle, honest emotional depths, combining youthful pop sensibilities with matured artistry. *Japanese Edition / Re-Issued with 3 bonus tracks.)

Asana - Kupu Kupu [Easel] CD (Asana's Kupu Kupu is a highly distinctive record and is separated by many of the other post rock bands today by its ability to create a surreal and placid environment for the listener. Not since Tortoise's TNT have I felt like I have spent a recent duration of my time in a place so lovely it can't possibly exist. Nevertheless, the record is a delightful experience and goes well with the perfect candlelit dinner, a relaxing massage, or time spent with a significant other. This one should not be overlooked. *Japanese Edition / Re-Issued with 7 Bonus Tracks.)

A Very Sonic Membrane Filmachine by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami [Diaphanes] BOOK (This book offers reflections and discussions about "filmachine", a groundbreaking work of art that challenges the way we think of music, sound, and space. filmachine is a vortex of sound and light. It is a sound installation by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya and complex systems scientist Takashi Ikegami. Three circles of loudspeakers are suspended from the ceiling above an abstract landscape. A delicate composition of space and time gives rise to an imaginary aural space in which sound objects and sound membranes are circulating, at times within an intimate proximity, at other times at a great distance. The essays in this volume offer insights into a unique dialogue between art and science. With contributions by Alva Noë, Otto E. Rössler, Kazunao Abe, Keiichiro Shibuya, Takashi Ikegami, and an introductory essay by Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles.)

Minilogue - Animals - The Movie [Cocoon] DVD (With 'Animals - The Movie', Minilogue's visual world comes fully into existence. The film is divided into fifteen chapters. Each chapter has a topic of its own and develops a unique visual style. All parts are connected by a certain theme: the conjunctive concept of the film is the idea of universal transformation and movement, which is represented in the animals. The artists follow the surrealist credo that everything is linked with everything else in a hidden way. The only way to uncover these links is art. With its irresistible synthetic dynamics, the film reveals these secret connections. The first chapter puts beautiful old drawings of unfamiliar foreign animals in a memory game. The game sets the whole screen in motion, the animals become part of an unstoppable transformation. After this initializing prologue, the film starts with a labyrinth of windows. Yet there is no floor, no walls and no ceiling: it is the space of a surrealist image. We enter an old barn, which opens to a large landscape with artificial trees. No entity is fixed anymore, everything becomes open and moving. It turns dark, and the trees are immersed in a thick layer of fog. In a very tense and exciting moment, a very special animal appears: At first we only see the texture of a Leopard's skin - but it is not the fur of a real animal, but the artificial fur of a toy pet. As we get a glimpse on the whole animal, we realize it's not a leopard, but a fantasy-animal with the body of a penguin, the nose and ears of a pig and the horns of an rhinoceros and it starts a charming dance to Minilogue's elegant music.)

Earth - Radio/Live [Southern Lord] LP (In the interest of documenting exceptional and vibrant live performances by our artists, we are proud to present a exclusive, vinyl only live album from Earth. Comprised of two tracks from a live radio broadcast on KFJC (New Years Eve 2007) and two track from a live performance in Vienna on there 2008 European tour. Of particular note is that Trey Spruance (Secret Chief 3, Faxed Head) plays Baritone Guitar and sitar on the KFJC recordings. The sound quality is incredible and crystal clear! Randall Dunn (sunn 0))) , Boris, Kinski) was the live sound engineer and the recordings were ultimately mastered by Mell Dettmer. The 180 gram black vinyl comes housed in a beautiful cloth-like textured heavy-weight cardboard sleeve with metallic silver foil printing!)

Ipso Facto - If [Vinyl Junkies] Japan Edition CD with Bonus Tracks (6 track japanese only cd from Ipso Facto. It compiles the limited and sold out singles on mute irregulars and germs of youth plus 'five golden stars' and a demo version of 'balderdash'. These four women from southend play ghoulishly brilliant garage pop / psychedelica. everything is taut black and white; guitars sound like they're being played through straitjackets, the organ lines like slowly snapping ice. though it's something more than a horrors-esque revivalism of dark garage-pop; ipso facto posses a cutting edge of melody and melancholy whilst most bands struggle with the crux of their own conviction.)

Matryoshka - Coctura [Nature Bliss/Novel Sounds] CD (Matryoshka is a Tokyo, Japan based band consisting of the track maker Sen and the female vocalist Calu. During the days when they were playing in the band Parachute Coats, their material was released as a 7 inch vinyl by a fan in Netherlands and received good attention in the club scene there. Only a year after the band was formed, they had already received sponsorship offers from Yamaha and were digitally distributed on their download site. The ablum is a remixed work done by Goldmuld, Tujiko Noriko, world's end girlfriend, aus, Fort Wayne...)

The Boats - Words Are Something Else [Home Normal] CD (As the saying goes, a change is as good as a rest. Never the band to rest on their illustrious laurels, or to misinterpret tradition, The Boats deliver a surprise in the form of ‘Words Are Something Else’. Taking their influence from myriad places has always been a subtle hint toward the Boats current psyche, and using the words deep, and techno, while alluding to their new album is a new, if not slightly fashionable (and disconcerting to tradition) statement. The Boats, fashionable, in the same sentence? Well, not really, but the 4/4 underpinning, and synthesis of almost an ‘acid’ character of most of the album is definitely a new facet of the rough diamond that they’ve shaped over their career.)

Christopher Hipgrave - Day [Home Normal] CD (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. once spoke of nature as needing to be held close to humanity, to be a friend, instead of an enemy. ‘Day’, by Christopher Hipgrave, who is a composer, sound designer, and software programmer from England, presents the harmony of the humanity and closeness to nature, while still allowing the time of the day to pass hardly without notice, but with change and closeness.)

Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree - Transcriptions [Spekk] CD ['Transcriptions', a collaborative work by Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Deupree, contains 8 tracks of music that is both historic, decayed, angelic and revolving, while also existing in warmth, purity, and transcendence through acoustic instruments, and vintage synthesizer. The result of the century-apart sources combined with the methodology and talent of these two leading experimentalists creates an immutable, impressing magnetism, while still balancing so gently on the vibrations of the decayed, and the frail humanity of the past.)

I8U + Tomas Phillips - Ligne [Atak] CD (Montreal sound-sculpture artist France Jobin has been performing and recording as i8u since the mid-nineties. i8u's compositions reveal powerful, opaque and complex sound environments that traverse the sonic spectrum from low-end bass rumblings to high-octane microscopic treble. Her installation/web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. Jobin's overall effect is best likened to experiments in ambient frequency collage. She has released numerous solo albums, the latest being 2008's  10-33 cm, on the acclaimed Australian ambient imprint ROOM40. She has collaborated notably with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and recently with Tomas Phillips. Their work is featured on the album "ligne".)

Masayuki Takayanagi 高柳昌行 - Archive 1 [Jinya Disc] 5CD+DVD Boxset (On 1977/1978, Takayanagi made independent gigs regularly and played with Ino Nobuyoshi(b), Mori Kenji, Fujikawa Yoshiaki(as), Yamazaki Hiroshi(ds), Iijima Akira(g), Seyama Kenji(perc), and so on as "New Direction Unit".  New Direction Unit was various form --trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, ....  This box include 5 gigs on each form into 5 CDs.  The booklet will be included chronology of New Direction, memo sig. of Takayanagi on each gigs and liner note text etc. Attached DVD (8 minutes Action Direct movie excerpt from next archive series, region free) only initial order. 5CD box is 500 set limited.)

Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship [Thrill Jockey] CD / LP (Beacons of Ancestorship is Tortoise's sixth full-length album, and their first release of new material in five years, since 2004's It's All Around You. In the interim, the group also released and toured behind the 2006 career retrospective box set A Lazarus Taxon, and an album of covers with vocalist Will Oldham by the likes of Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson, and The Minutemen, entitled The Brave and the Bold. Additionally, the individual members have kept busy with various other projects, including but not limited to Exploding Star Orchestra, Bumps, Fflashlights, and Powerhouse Sound. Tortoise remains unique in the world of contemporary music for their boundless intellectual curiosity, their unmistakable compositional voice, and their synthesis of seemingly contradictory sound worlds far from their doorstep.)

V/A - Hälsningar från skogen [Greetings from the Woods] OST [Kning Disk] CD (A film by Mikel Cee Karlsson. CD (Ltd. Ed. Box set of 499 handmade copies with a book - 44 pages / size: 165 x 165 mm). With visual precision and attention to detail, feature film debutant Mikel Cee Karlsson captures people and their existence in a small village deep inside the Swedish forest. Over a period of four years, the music video director and former professional skateboarder Mikel has been capturing singular scenes from a part of today's Sweden where reality inexorably seeps in behind the well-kept hedges. With a mixture of playful precision, humour and melancholy he portrays people’s dreams, their relationships and everyday destinies. Greetings from the Woods is a visual and personal portrait of Swedish rural life stripped bare.)

Radiq - People [Cirque] 2CD (Radia's new ablum in 2CD set. Radiq aka Yoshihiro Hanno is a noble producer/composer who practices broad creation from electronic music to acoustic movie sound track in all over the world and writes music basing on unique and individual point of view. His latest type of electronic project Radiq which collects dynamism of Dub, Jazz, Hip Hop and Deep Minimal.)

Nils Frahm - The Bells [Kning Disk] CD (Nils Frahm (born on September 1982 in Hamburg, Germany) is a multiple-group and solo musican as well as a producer with a very broad variety of talents. Taught piano by Nahum Brodski (a student of the last scholar of Tschaikowski), Nils Frahm mingled with classical co-noted and ECM-influenced soundworlds during the late eigthies. n his capacity as a solo artist, Nils kept investigating the horizons of analog music and instrumentation. All the sounds used in his work gain their warmth and organic expression from accoustic instruments and analog sound generators and alterizers from the 60’s and 70’s.)

Jerry Johansson Octet - Circles and Changes [Kning Disk] CD (Composer, and for this new release, guitar player, Jerry Johansson comes up with a surprise in his sleeve; a brand new composition for guitar and jazz octet. After having explored Indian-Swedish themes and states with his sitar and a chamber ensemble from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra for his three latest releases, Jerry Johansson now turns his energies and skills to the directions and domains of jazz. At the same time, he switches his trademark sitar to electric guitar. The personal imprint of Johansson´s is as always totally present in this work also; east, west, jazz, classical, drones, joyful saxophones, birds, bees, birches, branches and sand.)

Jerry Johansson - Book of Dreams [Kning Disk] CD (Book of Dreams is the new and latest cd-release by composer and sitar player Jerry Johansson; as always a treat! Just as in the dreamy sleep, different themes moves freely around their own orbits in the very centre of concentration. Entwining together, phasing, changing shape, echoing further on. The personal inprint runs like a wonderfully glowing and red dream-thread; sometimes through the sitar, sometimes through the cello, sometimes through other instruments. And just as in the dream, the feeling of time and space dissolves in this magical journey.)

Rick Tomlinson - Night Time Recordings From Göteborg [Kning Disk] CD (Manchester-based Rick Tomlinson aka Voice of the Seven Woods takes his free bearded Eastern-tinged raga-folktravels to new heights, as displayed here in intimate live recordings from the westcoastmetropolis Gothenburg. Having self-released a slew of CD-Rs to universal acclaim, Tomlinson – aka Voice of the Seven Woods – has kept on impressing, and is nuttin but a shining dronestar here in Dotistan.)

Misophone - Be Glad You Are Only Human [Kning Disk] CD (Providing a journey to challenge the synapses and strain every sinew, the latest album from Misophone – Be Glad You Are Only Human – is a lesson in conflicting sounds and emotions; simultaneously a joyous and melancholy record which nevertheless bursts with life and vivid brushstrokes of colour despite its often sepia-tinged feel, lending a sense of both intimacy and intrigue.)

Rickard Jäverling - The Valley [Kning Disk] CD (With a handful of split singles and self-released recordings already under his belt, The Valleys – released on Kning Disk – is Rickard Jäverling’s second full-length album, and the follow-up to his debut outing Two Times Five Lullaby. Pulling together myriad strands of folk music, Jäverling excels at creating wonderfully evocative images and sounds via delicate finger-picking and deft instrumentation, in a similar vein to his fellow countrymen Andreas Söderström (ASS) and Karl-Jonas Winqvist (Blood Music). Naturalistic yet with a sprawling complexity, The Valleys finds this talented songwriter on devastating form – a must for all fans of folk, both old and new.)

ES - Kesämaan Lapset [Fonal] CD / LP (This is my fifth solo release as Es. Kesämaan lapset was recorded during a three year period. It is a mix of soundscapes and pop tunes. You can hear influences varying from contemporary indie to ancient classical music. It’s a summer album and a childhood photo album. The name translates as “The Children Of The Summerland”. It an homage to the Pekka Streng album “Kesämaa” (Summerland) which is one of my favourite Finnish albums ever made. It also refers to Finland of course. I’ve been travelling a lot these past three years and every time I return here it feels more and more like home.)

Kiila - Touta Touta [Fonal] CD / LP (Tuota tuota is the third full-length album by Kiila. Its songs were born of peaceful, focused work and intense rehearsals with friends, interspersed with sleep and mealtimes.  As musical form, songs have always been important to Kiila, and consequently Tuota tuota develops around its songs. On the other hand, the album consists of many details: the sound is full, the web of instruments more varied and carefully orchestrated than before. It is unnecessary to separate the electronic from the non-electronic components. Different traditions of folk and pop music intermingle with electronic music and improvisation, tones and sound itself. This way, the album also poses questions about songs and songwriting.)

Tomutonttu - S/T [Peippo] 10" (First ever made tomutonttu tape re-released, and re-mastered by man him self, mr TT! Where does Tomutonttu begin? From here. We have re-released the hunchback’s first tape (Tomutonttu, Huutomerkki!, 2003) on 10 inch vinyl that works as a gateway from Kemialliset Ystävät to the melted seduction song world of Tomutonttu. He is one of the most important characters in new music, and even though they say you should avoid looking towards him, everybody’s a bit sweeter when being born.)

Tomutonttu - Tomutonto [Fonal] CD (Re-releasing this long sold out gem previously released on vinyl by Ultra Eczema. Tomutonttu (“dust gnome”) is a human called Jan Anderzén, a visual artist and the leader of a respected avant-garde sound group Kemialliset Ystävät. Toy reed streams, mutilated vocals and groovy loops of animal noise are some of the colours used to create the whirling mess that is the lonely song of Tomutonttu. It is like a confusing detail of the Kemialliset Ystävät freedom flow, a microcosmos of strange sound creatures and dirt flying around in the stereo space and interacting with a logic all of their own.)

Tomutonttu - S/T [Fonal] CD (Re-releasing this long sold out debut Tomutonttu originally released on LP by Beta Lactam Ring records. This solo album from Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystavat gets the reissue treatment from Fonal. For all his subterranean psych credentials, you can certainly hear an element of childlike fun and excitement at play here; the musical constituents of the album include animal sounds and toy instruments, warped into shape with a gleeful grasp on lo-fi psychedelia.)

Peter Broderick - Music For Falling From Trees [Erased Tapes] CD (Born January 20, 1987, he grew up in a small town in Oregon. By now, Peter Broderick's credentials need no repeating; his solo albums have quickly become among the most respected in the recent modern classical canon, but his talents stretch far beyond that... Broderick's music paints its own vivid and very opulent picture.)

Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon [Erased Tapes] CD (All kinds of epic, Codes In The Clouds' Paper Canyon strives (and indeed attains) a state of textbook post-rock euphoria that incorporates the emotive tug of Sigur Ros, the finely constructed guitar interplay of Explosions In The Sky and the unfeasibly immense crescendos of Mono in one handy package. The band pull all this together wonderfully well, and while you might not be able to pronounce Paper Canyon as an especially innovative piece of work within its genre, it's easily one of the most refined and complete sounding instrumental post-rock long-players of recent times.)

SUNN O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions [Southern Lord] CD (7th studio album, after 10 years of existence, entitled Monoliths & Dimensions. The album showcases the core guitar duo - Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson - incorporating influences from a plethora of guest musicians, bringing the SUNN O))) sound to epic new levels. The album is not “SUNN O))) with strings” or “metal meets orchestra” material. The band took an approach concentrating on more of allusion toward the timbre of feedback and the instruments involved, so the piece is really illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear, stating that the end product is “the most musical piece we’ve done, and also the heaviest, powerful and most abstract set of chords we’ve laid to tape".)

Suishou No Fune 水晶の舟 - Phantom of the Eternal Night [There] CD (April 2009 release! Recorded at Studio UEN, April/September 2008 featuring Pirako (vocals, guitar), Kageo (vocals, guitar), NISHIMURA Takuya (bass) the basist of Che-SHIZU, MIMINOKOTO, KIKUKAWA Takahisa (drums) ex. Che-SHIZU, UZU, duo with Jutok Kaneko (Kousokuya) on Siwa LP.)

Akio Suzuki 鈴木昭男 - Ki-Date 点気 [三岸節子記念美術館] DVD + Exhibition Catalogue Boxset (This is Akio Suzuki's brand new fantastic item consisted of an exhibition catalog and DVD boxed! He carried out an exhibition at a small museun in Aichi pref. in last summer. This DVD includes his installations, talking with poet Syuntaro Tanikawa, live performances and some past events in 3 hours and a half !! Also small catalog is included many photographs of this exhibition and very rare performances in earlier period. 189 pp, text is in Japanese and English (translated by Alan Cummings). Also box is appeared two colors (white and brown). large pic. The Theme of the exhibition is ki-date - a phase which orginally derives from the tea ceremony, where no-date means to brew tea outdoors. But rather than brewing tea, Suzuki means to kindle our awareness, and our spirit (ki ). Ki appears in many Japanese words - tenki (weather), kisei (elan), iki (spirited). In each of these cases, ki points to the latent potentioal to reveal its inner life. Atmosphere, life-force, beauty - each is composed of ki itself. - excerpt of foreword of catalog. Box available on White and Browm Colour.)

Jeniferever - Spring Tides [Thomason Sounds] CD (Jeniferever is a 4-piece band from Uppsala, Sweden. Over the years, they have gained an ever-growing band of  admirers, who have bestowed descriptions such as ‘lush’, ‘melodic’, ‘swooping’, ‘glacial’, ‘beautiful’, ‘shimmering’, ‘sublime’, ‘electrifying’ and ‘atmospheric’ on their music.  Some have compared their sound to the physical beauty of their native country, with its aural landscapes of slow-paced melodies which build to orchestral-like climaxes. Stylistically, the music can fit into a number of different genres, with its elements of ambient indie rock, post-rock, shoegaze and dream pop.)

toe - New Sentimentality "Tour Edition" [White Noise] CD (Limited to 1000 Individually Numbered copies. S.E. Asia edition for their first tour outside Japan. One bonus track " Velvet Blanc" that never release on CD before, plus two live video clips "New Sentimentality" and "Past and Language" that took from their show this year. toe is a beautiful math rock group that plays tunes that are complex and gorgeous. Their drummer is excellent and the arrangements of the songs are very interesting. This is a great EP and just a very relaxing listen.)

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