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PSFD-181
Ryojiro Furusawa & Kan Mikami / Buriki/Tin

Guitar, vocals-Kan Mikami
Drums-Ryojiro Furusawa
A sparse and stripped-back yet fully impassioned meditation on time, history and freedom. Surreal folk meets free jazz. Two tracks, including a 24 minute, one-take masterpiece.
Ryojiro Furusawa is one of Japan’s most respected jazz drummers, having played from the late 60s with everyone from Yosuke Yamashita and Sadao Watanabe to Yuji Imamura, Maki Asakawa and Shang Shang Typhoon. He’s also been a long time collaborator with Kan Mikami, appearing on Kan’s Bang! album in 1974. Kan Mikami is Japan’s wisest and wildest folk-poet, a surreal master of the non-sequieter blues, a worldclass howler of truth and passion. This is the duo’s third album, following Shokugyo (1987) and Dereki (2007).
Gatefold high-gloss papersleeve, including lyrics in Japanese and English.

$18

PSFD-182
Toukasei-Bunshi / Meta-Inorganicmatter Meta-Newlon

Performer: Hironari Iwata Volume 2 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this music from historical oblivion.
Toukaseibunshi (Permeable Molecule) was an ultra-mysterious solo unit created by Hironari Iwata. Iwata was a footnote figure in the world of Japanese avant-garde/noise from the mid to late eighties. As well as Toukaseibunshi, he also recorded under the name Haiginsha, ran the Angakok cassette label and wrote for various magazines.
There's an unshowy stoicism to Iwata's investigation of drone, clank and crackling sustain, a deep seriousness of purpose that beguiles as much as it confounds.
Six tracks, fifty-eight minutes. Gatefold papersleeve.

$18

PSFD-183
Schistosoma Japonica / Kankei UFO from Zanryu-shinen

Performer Ichiro Kawamoto
Performer Wataru Kasahara
Performer Toshiya Ishida
Volume 3 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating and exiting material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this material from historical oblivion.
Schitosoma Japonica (AKA Nihon Juketsu Kyuchu) were a cracked avant-garde, recording-only offshoot of the freeform rock band Amanita. Formed around 1990, the group lived a communal existence in Saitama, on the northern borders of Tokyo, experimenting with music, magic and psychological experiments. "Our basic performance style was completely freeform, utilizing prepared instruments and rejecting regular rhythms and melodic development. Our abiding themes were communication with the afterlife/cosmos and the manifestation of paranormal accidents. We would jam endlessly until our performance space was filled with the 'signs of blood and feverish becomings'. For us, performance was a kind of ritual."
The group released a clutch of barely distributed cassettes in tiny editions. This CD compiles the best of them, sifting through the detritus of a technological society to float between noise, drone and ritualized avant-garde gestures.
Eight tracks, fifty-four minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese.

$18

PSFD-184
Reiko Kudo & Tori Kudo / Kore kara

Recorded live in Tokyo in November last year, a set of crushing beautiful real songs, utterly devoid of commercialism but replete with the beauty and sadness of daily life.

$18

PSFD-185
Ai Aso / Aida

Recorded live, with a special appearance by Go Hirano. Unforced naturalism, untrammelled freshness of sensibility, and that unique wavering vocal fluctuation.

$18

PSFD-186
Satoshi Sonoda / Early Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1977-1978 [Memories of Yasushi Ozawa]

Memorial album for the late Fushitsusha bassist, Yasushi Ozawa, who passed away last year. The album collects recordings from the late seventies made by Ozawa's friend and musical collaborator Satoshi Sonoda. A vital document of the late seventies scene, featuring performances by members of Gaseneta, ANALkISS, GAP, etc.

$18

PSFD-187
Li Jianhong / Classic of the Moutains and Seas

Guitar: Li Jianhong
First solo album on PSF (after the Ghost Temple duo and a couple of tracks on the Asian Flashback compilation) for China’s hottest, loudest and most psychedelic avant-noise guitarist, Li Jianhong.
Born in Fenghua in 1975, Li Jianhong has been blowing ears open with his own unique brand of higher-mind noise for five years now. This solo disk sees him simultaneously channelling Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi, as he dissolves himself into an avant-guitar mandala comprised of full-bore drone, sustained runs of psychedelic soloing, and phantom echo. An essential blast of young China.
Seventy minutes.

$18

PSFD-188
New Miminokoto / All About Mimi

Guitar, Vocals: Junzo Suzuki Bass: Takuya Nishimura Drums: Koji Shimura
Another first release on PSF for Miminokoto, a Tokyo-based garage psychedelic rock trio who have previously released a string of acclaimed albums on the Alchemy, Gyuune, Siwa and Last Visible Dog labels. This is the group's first album since Junzo Suzuki (20 Guilders, Astral Travelling Unity, ex Overhang Party) took over on vocals and guitar.
The key to this group has always been their deep sense of song--a densely emotive core around which the songs surge, billow and break. That core is retained here with an even harder psychedelic edge to the guitar. Includes two covers of songs by the late Jutok Kaneko of Kousokuya.
Forty minutes, seven tracks.

$18

PSFD-189
Tokyo Flashback vol. 7

Released: September 15, 2009
Includes tracks by: Le son de l'os; Bon no Kubo; Derakushi; Sabu Orimo Unit; Touyoumajyo; hasegawa-shizuo
Once again PSF Records has combed the darkest live houses on the grungiest streets on the wrong side of the Tokyo tracks to bring you the undiscovered cream of the city's psychedelic improvisation scene!
Eighteen years on from the original Tokyo Flashback compilation, the city is still throwing up unknown groups with their own viscerally weird takes on the esoteric practices of psychedelic rock, garage punk, acid folk drone and free improvisation. These are groups that wrongfoot our facile assumptions about how genre, technique and conception music should combine, whether the tactile space improvs of Le son de l'os (featuring Yuko Hasegawa from Onna-kodomo) or Hasegawa-Shizuo; the white-hot free-punk chaos of Derakushi; Bon no Kubo's classically minimalist free-improv moves or the bizarre shapes thrown up by shakuhachi sensation Sabu Orimo's unit.
Six tracks, seventy-six minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese.

$18

PSFD-190
Painting Petals On Planet Ghost / Haru no omoi

$18

PSFD-191
Tori Kudo / piano solo

$18

PSFD-192
Derakushi / same

Released: November 10, 2009

$18

PSFD-193
Bonn No Kubo / same

Released: 2009

$18

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	PSFD-181 Ryojiro Furusawa & Kan Mikami / Buriki/Tin Guitar, vocals-Kan Mikami Drums-Ryojiro Furusawa A sparse and stripped-back yet fully impassioned meditation on time, history and freedom. Surreal folk meets free jazz. Two tracks, including a 24 minute, one-take masterpiece. Ryojiro Furusawa is one of Japan’s most respected jazz drummers, having played from the late 60s with everyone from Yosuke Yamashita and Sadao Watanabe to Yuji Imamura, Maki Asakawa and Shang Shang Typhoon. He’s also been a long time collaborator with Kan Mikami, appearing on Kan’s Bang! album in 1974. Kan Mikami is Japan’s wisest and wildest folk-poet, a surreal master of the non-sequieter blues, a worldclass howler of truth and passion. This is the duo’s third album, following Shokugyo (1987) and Dereki (2007). Gatefold high-gloss papersleeve, including lyrics in Japanese and English.	$18

	PSFD-182 Toukasei-Bunshi / Meta-Inorganicmatter Meta-Newlon Performer: Hironari Iwata Volume 2 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this music from historical oblivion. Toukaseibunshi (Permeable Molecule) was an ultra-mysterious solo unit created by Hironari Iwata. Iwata was a footnote figure in the world of Japanese avant-garde/noise from the mid to late eighties. As well as Toukaseibunshi, he also recorded under the name Haiginsha, ran the Angakok cassette label and wrote for various magazines. There's an unshowy stoicism to Iwata's investigation of drone, clank and crackling sustain, a deep seriousness of purpose that beguiles as much as it confounds. Six tracks, fifty-eight minutes. Gatefold papersleeve.	$18

	PSFD-183 Schistosoma Japonica / Kankei UFO from Zanryu-shinen Performer Ichiro Kawamoto Performer Wataru Kasahara Performer Toshiya Ishida Volume 3 in the ongoing Japanese Avant-Garde Cassette Reissue Series. The 80s and early 90s saw a great deal of fascinating and exiting material released on cassette in the Tokyo underground. While some of the more noise-orientated stuff enjoyed a modicum of international distribution, the avant-garde material generally did not. This series, whose first release was Iro / Tamafuri (PSFD-180), aims to rescue the best of this material from historical oblivion. Schitosoma Japonica (AKA Nihon Juketsu Kyuchu) were a cracked avant-garde, recording-only offshoot of the freeform rock band Amanita. Formed around 1990, the group lived a communal existence in Saitama, on the northern borders of Tokyo, experimenting with music, magic and psychological experiments. "Our basic performance style was completely freeform, utilizing prepared instruments and rejecting regular rhythms and melodic development. Our abiding themes were communication with the afterlife/cosmos and the manifestation of paranormal accidents. We would jam endlessly until our performance space was filled with the 'signs of blood and feverish becomings'. For us, performance was a kind of ritual." The group released a clutch of barely distributed cassettes in tiny editions. This CD compiles the best of them, sifting through the detritus of a technological society to float between noise, drone and ritualized avant-garde gestures. Eight tracks, fifty-four minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese.	$18

	PSFD-184 Reiko Kudo & Tori Kudo / Kore kara Recorded live in Tokyo in November last year, a set of crushing beautiful real songs, utterly devoid of commercialism but replete with the beauty and sadness of daily life.	$18

	PSFD-185 Ai Aso / Aida Recorded live, with a special appearance by Go Hirano. Unforced naturalism, untrammelled freshness of sensibility, and that unique wavering vocal fluctuation.	$18

	PSFD-186 Satoshi Sonoda / Early Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1977-1978 [Memories of Yasushi Ozawa] Memorial album for the late Fushitsusha bassist, Yasushi Ozawa, who passed away last year. The album collects recordings from the late seventies made by Ozawa's friend and musical collaborator Satoshi Sonoda. A vital document of the late seventies scene, featuring performances by members of Gaseneta, ANALkISS, GAP, etc.	$18

	PSFD-187 Li Jianhong / Classic of the Moutains and Seas Guitar: Li Jianhong First solo album on PSF (after the Ghost Temple duo and a couple of tracks on the Asian Flashback compilation) for China’s hottest, loudest and most psychedelic avant-noise guitarist, Li Jianhong. Born in Fenghua in 1975, Li Jianhong has been blowing ears open with his own unique brand of higher-mind noise for five years now. This solo disk sees him simultaneously channelling Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi, as he dissolves himself into an avant-guitar mandala comprised of full-bore drone, sustained runs of psychedelic soloing, and phantom echo. An essential blast of young China. Seventy minutes.	$18

	PSFD-188 New Miminokoto / All About Mimi Guitar, Vocals: Junzo Suzuki Bass: Takuya Nishimura Drums: Koji Shimura Another first release on PSF for Miminokoto, a Tokyo-based garage psychedelic rock trio who have previously released a string of acclaimed albums on the Alchemy, Gyuune, Siwa and Last Visible Dog labels. This is the group's first album since Junzo Suzuki (20 Guilders, Astral Travelling Unity, ex Overhang Party) took over on vocals and guitar. The key to this group has always been their deep sense of song--a densely emotive core around which the songs surge, billow and break. That core is retained here with an even harder psychedelic edge to the guitar. Includes two covers of songs by the late Jutok Kaneko of Kousokuya. Forty minutes, seven tracks.	$18

	PSFD-189 Tokyo Flashback vol. 7 Released: September 15, 2009 Includes tracks by: Le son de l'os; Bon no Kubo; Derakushi; Sabu Orimo Unit; Touyoumajyo; hasegawa-shizuo Once again PSF Records has combed the darkest live houses on the grungiest streets on the wrong side of the Tokyo tracks to bring you the undiscovered cream of the city's psychedelic improvisation scene! Eighteen years on from the original Tokyo Flashback compilation, the city is still throwing up unknown groups with their own viscerally weird takes on the esoteric practices of psychedelic rock, garage punk, acid folk drone and free improvisation. These are groups that wrongfoot our facile assumptions about how genre, technique and conception music should combine, whether the tactile space improvs of Le son de l'os (featuring Yuko Hasegawa from Onna-kodomo) or Hasegawa-Shizuo; the white-hot free-punk chaos of Derakushi; Bon no Kubo's classically minimalist free-improv moves or the bizarre shapes thrown up by shakuhachi sensation Sabu Orimo's unit. Six tracks, seventy-six minutes. Liner notes in English and Japanese.	$18

	PSFD-190 Painting Petals On Planet Ghost / Haru no omoi	$18

	PSFD-191 Tori Kudo / piano solo	$18

	PSFD-192 Derakushi / same Released: November 10, 2009	$18

	PSFD-193 Bonn No Kubo / same Released: 2009	$18