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PSFD-201
Rick Potts / Krewton the Knewtron

Release date: October 25, 2011
Previously unreleased material by the legendary Rick Potts of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), to commemorate his solo tour of Japan.
Raw, lo-fi avant-garde experiments with field recording, improvisation and tape music, recorded in the late seventies when Rick was in his early twenties. Featuring contributions by Le Forte Four and Doodooettes on one track, and two recently recorded unreleased tracks.
"In 1977 I wanted to make an animated film filled with the strange creatures in my sketch book. I called it From the Land of the Trushkin Ploon. There was no real story but it was to be a film with no words that would be a documentary of the odd figures I was drawing. I wanted to have a soundtrack to go with it. It is customary in animation to create the soundtrack first and than make animation to fit the sound. I began working on sounds and music for this film idea as well as drawing. The project was never realized except for the drawings and recordings. As I made the four-track recordings I made cassette mixes to listen to. This is what has been digitized for the CD along with sounds captured directly onto a portable cassette recorder. Also included are a couple of songs from later years. All recording were made in 1977 or 1978 except the last two songs."
Includes liner notes in English and Japanese. Original Rick Potts cover painting and illustrations. Twenty tracks, 38 minutes.

$18

PSFD-200
Tokyo Flashback vol. 8

Release date: October 25, 2011
Featuring tracks by: Solider Garage, Majutsu no Niwa, Reizen, Mamushi, Oser, Metaphoric, Netanoyoi, Demons, Heavy Metal Glue.
It’s entirely appropriate that the 200th release on PSF Records should be the latest report from the frontline of Tokyo’s psychedelic underground. Over the years, the compilation has given Western listeners their first introduction to a host of astonishing and influential bands ? High Rise, White Heaven, Kousokuya, Ghost, Overhang Party, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Shizuka, and many others.
The Tokyo Flashback series has always been valuable for the invaluable real-time snapshot it provides of Tokyo’s underground rock scene, allowing for micro shifts in the vocabulary of the music to be plotted and tracked. Two years on from Tokyo Flashback 7, this volume sees a host of younger, unknown bands gene-splicing the existing tropes with new forms, but still animated by a stubborn belief in the alchemical power of Marshall amps, distortion, improvisational insanity, and in-the-moment openness to cosmic vibrations.
Of the artists included, only Majutsu no Niwa (led by ex-Overhang Party mainman Fukuoka Rinji) and Heavy Metal Glue (featuring members of Marble Sheep, White Heaven, and stoner rockers Church of Misery) have previous form with stomping heads-down psychedelic garage rock. Elsewhere Soldier Garagedisplay some fully internalized Fushitsusha moves. Reisen and Metaphoric deal in creepy drone-washes of haunted ambient sound. Oser weld face-peeling noise with improv guitar, while Demons toss Led Zeppelin, The Boredoms and Michio Kadotani into a rehearsal-studio blender. Equally jawdropping are the gasping, twisted vocals at the heart of Mamushi’s rough-cut garage rock sound.
Nine tracks, 62 minutes.

$18

PSFD-199
Suishou no Fune / Your Tears

Guitar, Vocals -- Pirako
Guitar, Vocals -- Kageo
Bass -- Hideo Matsueda
Drums -- Shizuo Uchida
Formed in 1999, Suishou no Fune were part of the third wave of indigenous psychedelia to emerge from the depths of the Tokyo scene. Fronted by female vocalist and guitarist Pirako and her partner Kageo, the group treads a unique line between the tremulous and the cavernous. Joined by Shizuo Uchida from Hasegawa-Shizuo, le son de l’os, etc on drums, this is the group’s most elegiac album yet, a gorgeously aching evensong to love, lanquidity and loss, sung in echoing cathedrals of drone, distortion and fuzz. Measured, coherent, and at times emotionally overwhelming.
Four tracks, 49 minutes.

$18

PSFD-198
Michel Henritzi & Fukuoka Rinji / Outside Darkness

Michel Henritzi -- lapsteel, guitar, effects
Fukuoka Rinji -- violin, bells, effects, vocals
Thierry Delles -- (track 2)
A stark and moving collaboration between the French avant-garde guitarist Michel Henritzi and Fukuoka Rinji, formerly of Overhang Party and currently of Majutsu no Niwa.
The track titles of their first duo album limn a cosmos out of joint, hopeless and despairing - suns in eclipse, falling angels, the ghosts of Fukushima. The mood is emphasized in the bleak, dystopian photography of the jacket with its bare, wintry trees and landscapes devoid of human presence. The music translates these ideas into actuality, echoed and stark sonorities that question, lament, mourn. Henritzi's lapsteel and guitar summon up grey drone fields, shimmering with baleful energy over which Fukuoka floats elegiac, writhing lines of violin and emotionally resonant yet wordless vocals.
"A deep stillness is apparent in Michel's music. It’s not something he has come to possess through playing electric guitar, rather it's more like an innate and very important part of his temperament. Either way, it's an extremely rare quality even among artists." - Kazuki Tomokawa
Six tracks, forty-five minutes.

$18

PSFD-197
Anla Courtis + Tabata Mitsuru + Kawaguchi Masami / Aum Air

$18

PSFD-8035
Kazuki Tomokawa / Blue Icepick

$18

PSFD-196
le son de l'os / Grass Pillow

Release date: December 29, 2010
Guitar, Voice -- Yuko Hasegawa
Guitar, Flute, Piano, Bell -- Masahiro Deguchi
Bass, One String -- Shizuo Uchida
First album from mysterious free-floating acoustic improvisation trio.
Debut album from le son de l’os who had a stunning track on the Tokyo Flashback 7 compilation. The group have apparently been together for several years, exploring performance in a variety of outdoor spaces. They consist of Yuko Hasegawa, Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa-Shizuo, Kito Mizukumi Rouber), and Masahiro Deguchi (Gendai Sokkyo). Hasegawa and Uchida previously played together in Onna-Kodomo - one of the great, lost late-night Tokyo drone improv groups of the nineties. There’s a similar sense of subtly shaded space and poised atmosphere here, as Hasegawa threads wordless threnodies around the breathy lines of flute, and the strangely accented spaces created by Uchida’s bass. Simultaneously fragile, melancholically beautiful and unsettling. File with your Taj Mahal Travellers, Nijiumu and Toho Sara records.
Five tracks, 48 minutes. Gatefold papersleeve with obi.

$18

PSFD-195
Tamio Shiraishi / Chikatetsu - Sax Solo

Released: July 12, 2010
Alto Saxophone - Tamio Shiraishi
A set of unique site-specific live recordings from one of the true legends of the Tokyo underground, taped at a number of different subway stations in Queens, NYC.
Tamio Shiraishi is one of the legends of the Japanese underground. For over thirty years he has continued to pursue an utterly unique eruptive style of performance interventions into consensus reality, ranging from visceral, guttural vocal explosions, intense synth blatter in an early Fushitsusha lineup, to his trademark dogwhistle sonics on alto saxophone. In recent years he has been resident in New York, where he has performed with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht and sundry No-Necks.
Site-specific field recordings, particularly in urban spaces, have been a longterm interest in Shiraishi's work, and while he lived in Tokyo he could often been seen late at night playing with the wind on a pedestrian bridge in Shinjuku. These recent recordings from 2008 and 2009 capture Shiraishi in the NYC subway, exhaling long thin wires of aural razorlight through the tunnels, breathing in bleak, beautiful harmony with the clanks and squeals of the occasional passing subway train. Mindblowing.
Five tracks, 33 minutes.

$18

PSFDV-1004
Shizuka / Owarino nai yume (DVD)

Released: April 25, 2010
Guitar, vocals -- Shizuka
Guitar - Maki Miura
Bass - Kazuhide Yamaji
Drums - Katsumi Honjoh
Visual tribute to Shizuka, one of the most distinctive psychedelic voices in the Tokyo underground, who tragically passed away on January 31st this year.
This DVD captures the last ever performance by her group, recorded live at ShowBoat in Tokyo on December 30, 2008. As ever, the focus is upon Shizuka’s delicate, uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing which meld with the overwhelmingly emotive white-hot nebulae of ex-Fushitsusha axeman Maki Miura’s guitar. Together the narcotic voice and the guitar peak and churn in perfectly weightless filigreed forms of light, darkness, cosmic cold and invisible motion. At their best, the Shizuka group were one of the distinctively original voices in the Japanese psych scene.
Ten tracks, 74 minutes. NTSC region-free DVD. Limited edition of 500.

$25

PSFD-8034
Kan Mikami / Yakichi

Released: March 20, 2010
Guitar, vocals -- Kan Mikami
Seven tracks of twisted enka blues, from the immortal Kan Mikami, Japan’s king of the surrealist aside and situationist duckwalk.
These latest seven missives from Mikami’s febrile imagination sketch out a concern with the passing of time, with the inexorable processes of aging, and the losses and gains of Japan’s modernity. Present and correct are the master’s unique sense of expanding and contracting rhythm, his trademark jaggedly beautiful riffing, and that glorious, honeyed howl of a voice. Making a special guest appearance this time round is Korean folk singer Kim Doo Soo, contributing spectral blues harp on one track.
Seven tracks, 32 minutes. Booklet includes lyrics in English and Japanese.

$18

PSFD-8032
Kim Doo Soo / The Evening River (2CD)

Released: January 25, 2010
Long awaited second release on PSF by dream-weaving Korean folk singer, Kim Doo Soo. The album features beautifully restrained new recordings of Kim Doo Soo’s most classic songs - a highly personal selection, made by Kim himself.
The discovery of Kim Doo Soo outside Korea, through the Damon & Naomi compiled International Sad Hits and then on his first new album in five years, Ten Days Butterfly (PSFD-175), was one of the more gratifying moments of the last decade. Here was an entirely unknown voice and a poetic sensibility that is tender, richly melodic, agonizingly soulful, and undeniably human.
These re-recordings of some of Kim’s most striking songs from his previous five albums focus on the hypnotic patterns of his acoustic guitar and voice, with some subtle tonal shading from percussion, brass, synth, accordion and cello. The result is a lulling, deeply flowing whole, ripe with the subtle and seductive currents of the evening river of the title.
Includes a bonus three track CD. Fourteen tracks in total. Gatefold papersleeve. Booklet includes lyrics in Korean, Japanese and English.

$20

PSFD-194
Masayoshi Urabe & Toshi Ishizuka / Natsu no sebone

Release: June 10, 2010
Alto Saxophone, Bells -- Masayoshi Urabe
Percussion -- Toshi Ishizuka
Thrilling, bloodshaking, soulscraping and defiantly non-sexless improv set from two Japanese titans.
Recorded live at the Apia club in Tokyo in December last year, this set showcases Urabe's uniquely physical approach to improvisation - ferociously concentrated, contorted, sweating and eruptive with physical power. His lines seem to boil up from his flesh, with gurgles, gasps and rasping breath defining sparse, sonic regions in which silence itself seems to breath. Ishizuka is the perfect foil, providing subtle shade and balance around Urabe's transformative sculpting of space.
One track, 58 minutes. Comes with a booklet of evocative black and white photographs of the event by Tatsuo Suzuki. The title translates as "The Backbone of Summer".

$18

PSFD-193
Bonn No Kubo / same

Released: December 25, 2009
Second album from striking new Japanese free improv trio, who first shot to prominence on Tokyo Flashback 7 (PSFD-189).
The young group consists of Masahiko Ota (guitar), Shintaro Takasugi (contrabass) and Naoto Yamagishi (drums, percussion) - all still in their 20s. They first formed in 2007 and self-released their now sold-out debut album the following year.
The group displays a sure sense of structural dynamics and excel at the construction of brooding ambient atmospheres that seem to be informed by traditional Japanese aesthetics. Ota’s acoustic guitar is occasionally reminiscent of the sour, tangled lines of Masayuki Takayanagi, but the group have a confident sense of their own identity that belies their age. A group to watch!
Five tracks, 39 minutes. Papersleeve.

$18

PSFD-192
Derakushi / same

Released: November 10, 2009

Sax, Voice -- Shun Suzuki
Bass -- Luis Inage
Drums -- Norikazu Orizo
Guitar -- Kuzuha
Throbbing and flailing fusion of free jazz and foot-to-the-floor psychedelic avant-rock!
The long-awaited first album from Tokyo's Derakushi, who first grabbed the ears of free skronk aficionados worldwide with their entirely unhinged appearance on Tokyo Flashback 7. The group is driven along by the caverndeep throbbing carburettor hum of Inage's bass and the skittering metallic pistons of Orizo's drumming. Kuzuha spraypaints barbed wire hotrod decals over the wings, while Suzuki tourette-twitches in the driver’s seat like some cartoon monstermeld of Keiji Haino and Kaoru Abe. Basically, a whacked out reimagining of the Takayanagi-Abe duo jamming at a High Rise rehearsal!
Five tracks, 38 minutes. Gatefold mini-LP papersleeve with obi.

$18

PSFSALP-01
Six Organs of Admittance & AZUL split LP

Released: 2009

$18 + shipping

PSFD-191
Tori Kudo / piano solo - He would come home through the window, job in hand

Released: July 15, 2009
Piano - Tori Kudo
Enticing and beguilingly enigmatic disk of solo improvisations from the leader of Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
Recorded as a soundtrack for a dance performance by Mari Fujii, these six tracks show Kudo's stunning facility for using the accidental to animate and invigorate complex technique with humanity and wit. The flow of fractured lines and clumpy chords here invoke fleeting memories of pianists of the past, melodies drifting in and out through thickets of dissolving chords like revenant ghosts. Beguiling, entrancing and quite wonderful.
Six tracks, 45 minutes. Jewelcase with obi.

$18

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

Released: July 5, 2009
Vocals, Wind Chimes - Ramona Ponzini
Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica, Gong, Cymbal, Percussion, Effects - Roberto Opalio
Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Accordion, Gong, Cymbal, Percussion, Etc - Maurizio Opalio
Ethereal collaboration between vocalist Ramona Ponzini and the Opalio brothers from the Turin-based psych-experimentalists My Cat Is An Alien.
Using Japanese texts from the sensual female poet Akiko Yosano and the 11th century diarist Sei Shonagon (author of The Pillow Book), Ponzini shrouds her crooned and whispered vocals in layered echoes reminiscent of the swirling mists in pine-clad valleys. Around her vocals, the Opalio brothers weave delicate and sensitive filigrees of mostly acoustic instruments, minimal guitar, toy keyboards and softly chiming clouds of percussion. It's a uniquely restful and meditative album, ripe with mysterious atmospheres, recorded over several years in "different mystic locations" in the Western Alps of northern Italy.
Seven tracks, 37 minutes. Gatefold mini-LP style papersleeve with obi.

$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-8031
Kazuki Tomokawa / A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado

Released: June 10, 2009
Vocals, Guitar: Kazuki Tomokawa
Celebrating 35 years of vagabond soul by one of Japan's most distinctive and original folk voices. A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado is Tomokawa's first completely solo album in fifteen years and a full-voiced return to form after his recent illness.

$18

PSFD-8030
Kan Mikami / -1

Released: 2009

$18


	PSFD-201 Rick Potts / Krewton the Knewtron Release date: October 25, 2011 Previously unreleased material by the legendary Rick Potts of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), to commemorate his solo tour of Japan. Raw, lo-fi avant-garde experiments with field recording, improvisation and tape music, recorded in the late seventies when Rick was in his early twenties. Featuring contributions by Le Forte Four and Doodooettes on one track, and two recently recorded unreleased tracks. "In 1977 I wanted to make an animated film filled with the strange creatures in my sketch book. I called it From the Land of the Trushkin Ploon. There was no real story but it was to be a film with no words that would be a documentary of the odd figures I was drawing. I wanted to have a soundtrack to go with it. It is customary in animation to create the soundtrack first and than make animation to fit the sound. I began working on sounds and music for this film idea as well as drawing. The project was never realized except for the drawings and recordings. As I made the four-track recordings I made cassette mixes to listen to. This is what has been digitized for the CD along with sounds captured directly onto a portable cassette recorder. Also included are a couple of songs from later years. All recording were made in 1977 or 1978 except the last two songs." Includes liner notes in English and Japanese. Original Rick Potts cover painting and illustrations. Twenty tracks, 38 minutes.	$18


	PSFD-200 Tokyo Flashback vol. 8 Release date: October 25, 2011 Featuring tracks by: Solider Garage, Majutsu no Niwa, Reizen, Mamushi, Oser, Metaphoric, Netanoyoi, Demons, Heavy Metal Glue. It’s entirely appropriate that the 200th release on PSF Records should be the latest report from the frontline of Tokyo’s psychedelic underground. Over the years, the compilation has given Western listeners their first introduction to a host of astonishing and influential bands ? High Rise, White Heaven, Kousokuya, Ghost, Overhang Party, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Shizuka, and many others. The Tokyo Flashback series has always been valuable for the invaluable real-time snapshot it provides of Tokyo’s underground rock scene, allowing for micro shifts in the vocabulary of the music to be plotted and tracked. Two years on from Tokyo Flashback 7, this volume sees a host of younger, unknown bands gene-splicing the existing tropes with new forms, but still animated by a stubborn belief in the alchemical power of Marshall amps, distortion, improvisational insanity, and in-the-moment openness to cosmic vibrations. Of the artists included, only Majutsu no Niwa (led by ex-Overhang Party mainman Fukuoka Rinji) and Heavy Metal Glue (featuring members of Marble Sheep, White Heaven, and stoner rockers Church of Misery) have previous form with stomping heads-down psychedelic garage rock. Elsewhere Soldier Garagedisplay some fully internalized Fushitsusha moves. Reisen and Metaphoric deal in creepy drone-washes of haunted ambient sound. Oser weld face-peeling noise with improv guitar, while Demons toss Led Zeppelin, The Boredoms and Michio Kadotani into a rehearsal-studio blender. Equally jawdropping are the gasping, twisted vocals at the heart of Mamushi’s rough-cut garage rock sound. Nine tracks, 62 minutes.	$18


	PSFD-199 Suishou no Fune / Your Tears Guitar, Vocals -- Pirako Guitar, Vocals -- Kageo Bass -- Hideo Matsueda Drums -- Shizuo Uchida Formed in 1999, Suishou no Fune were part of the third wave of indigenous psychedelia to emerge from the depths of the Tokyo scene. Fronted by female vocalist and guitarist Pirako and her partner Kageo, the group treads a unique line between the tremulous and the cavernous. Joined by Shizuo Uchida from Hasegawa-Shizuo, le son de l’os, etc on drums, this is the group’s most elegiac album yet, a gorgeously aching evensong to love, lanquidity and loss, sung in echoing cathedrals of drone, distortion and fuzz. Measured, coherent, and at times emotionally overwhelming. Four tracks, 49 minutes.	$18

	PSFD-198 Michel Henritzi & Fukuoka Rinji / Outside Darkness Michel Henritzi -- lapsteel, guitar, effects Fukuoka Rinji -- violin, bells, effects, vocals Thierry Delles -- (track 2) A stark and moving collaboration between the French avant-garde guitarist Michel Henritzi and Fukuoka Rinji, formerly of Overhang Party and currently of Majutsu no Niwa. The track titles of their first duo album limn a cosmos out of joint, hopeless and despairing - suns in eclipse, falling angels, the ghosts of Fukushima. The mood is emphasized in the bleak, dystopian photography of the jacket with its bare, wintry trees and landscapes devoid of human presence. The music translates these ideas into actuality, echoed and stark sonorities that question, lament, mourn. Henritzi's lapsteel and guitar summon up grey drone fields, shimmering with baleful energy over which Fukuoka floats elegiac, writhing lines of violin and emotionally resonant yet wordless vocals. "A deep stillness is apparent in Michel's music. It’s not something he has come to possess through playing electric guitar, rather it's more like an innate and very important part of his temperament. Either way, it's an extremely rare quality even among artists." - Kazuki Tomokawa Six tracks, forty-five minutes.	$18

	PSFD-197 Anla Courtis + Tabata Mitsuru + Kawaguchi Masami / Aum Air	$18

	PSFD-8035 Kazuki Tomokawa / Blue Icepick	$18

	PSFD-196 le son de l'os / Grass Pillow Release date: December 29, 2010 Guitar, Voice -- Yuko Hasegawa Guitar, Flute, Piano, Bell -- Masahiro Deguchi Bass, One String -- Shizuo Uchida First album from mysterious free-floating acoustic improvisation trio. Debut album from le son de l’os who had a stunning track on the Tokyo Flashback 7 compilation. The group have apparently been together for several years, exploring performance in a variety of outdoor spaces. They consist of Yuko Hasegawa, Shizuo Uchida (Hasegawa-Shizuo, Kito Mizukumi Rouber), and Masahiro Deguchi (Gendai Sokkyo). Hasegawa and Uchida previously played together in Onna-Kodomo - one of the great, lost late-night Tokyo drone improv groups of the nineties. There’s a similar sense of subtly shaded space and poised atmosphere here, as Hasegawa threads wordless threnodies around the breathy lines of flute, and the strangely accented spaces created by Uchida’s bass. Simultaneously fragile, melancholically beautiful and unsettling. File with your Taj Mahal Travellers, Nijiumu and Toho Sara records. Five tracks, 48 minutes. Gatefold papersleeve with obi.	$18

	PSFD-195 Tamio Shiraishi / Chikatetsu - Sax Solo Released: July 12, 2010 Alto Saxophone - Tamio Shiraishi A set of unique site-specific live recordings from one of the true legends of the Tokyo underground, taped at a number of different subway stations in Queens, NYC. Tamio Shiraishi is one of the legends of the Japanese underground. For over thirty years he has continued to pursue an utterly unique eruptive style of performance interventions into consensus reality, ranging from visceral, guttural vocal explosions, intense synth blatter in an early Fushitsusha lineup, to his trademark dogwhistle sonics on alto saxophone. In recent years he has been resident in New York, where he has performed with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht and sundry No-Necks. Site-specific field recordings, particularly in urban spaces, have been a longterm interest in Shiraishi's work, and while he lived in Tokyo he could often been seen late at night playing with the wind on a pedestrian bridge in Shinjuku. These recent recordings from 2008 and 2009 capture Shiraishi in the NYC subway, exhaling long thin wires of aural razorlight through the tunnels, breathing in bleak, beautiful harmony with the clanks and squeals of the occasional passing subway train. Mindblowing. Five tracks, 33 minutes.	$18

	PSFDV-1004 Shizuka / Owarino nai yume (DVD) Released: April 25, 2010 Guitar, vocals -- Shizuka Guitar - Maki Miura Bass - Kazuhide Yamaji Drums - Katsumi Honjoh Visual tribute to Shizuka, one of the most distinctive psychedelic voices in the Tokyo underground, who tragically passed away on January 31st this year. This DVD captures the last ever performance by her group, recorded live at ShowBoat in Tokyo on December 30, 2008. As ever, the focus is upon Shizuka’s delicate, uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing which meld with the overwhelmingly emotive white-hot nebulae of ex-Fushitsusha axeman Maki Miura’s guitar. Together the narcotic voice and the guitar peak and churn in perfectly weightless filigreed forms of light, darkness, cosmic cold and invisible motion. At their best, the Shizuka group were one of the distinctively original voices in the Japanese psych scene. Ten tracks, 74 minutes. NTSC region-free DVD. Limited edition of 500.	$25

	PSFD-8034 Kan Mikami / Yakichi Released: March 20, 2010 Guitar, vocals -- Kan Mikami Seven tracks of twisted enka blues, from the immortal Kan Mikami, Japan’s king of the surrealist aside and situationist duckwalk. These latest seven missives from Mikami’s febrile imagination sketch out a concern with the passing of time, with the inexorable processes of aging, and the losses and gains of Japan’s modernity. Present and correct are the master’s unique sense of expanding and contracting rhythm, his trademark jaggedly beautiful riffing, and that glorious, honeyed howl of a voice. Making a special guest appearance this time round is Korean folk singer Kim Doo Soo, contributing spectral blues harp on one track. Seven tracks, 32 minutes. Booklet includes lyrics in English and Japanese.	$18

	PSFD-8032 Kim Doo Soo / The Evening River (2CD) Released: January 25, 2010 Long awaited second release on PSF by dream-weaving Korean folk singer, Kim Doo Soo. The album features beautifully restrained new recordings of Kim Doo Soo’s most classic songs - a highly personal selection, made by Kim himself. The discovery of Kim Doo Soo outside Korea, through the Damon & Naomi compiled International Sad Hits and then on his first new album in five years, Ten Days Butterfly (PSFD-175), was one of the more gratifying moments of the last decade. Here was an entirely unknown voice and a poetic sensibility that is tender, richly melodic, agonizingly soulful, and undeniably human. These re-recordings of some of Kim’s most striking songs from his previous five albums focus on the hypnotic patterns of his acoustic guitar and voice, with some subtle tonal shading from percussion, brass, synth, accordion and cello. The result is a lulling, deeply flowing whole, ripe with the subtle and seductive currents of the evening river of the title. Includes a bonus three track CD. Fourteen tracks in total. Gatefold papersleeve. Booklet includes lyrics in Korean, Japanese and English.	$20

	PSFD-194 Masayoshi Urabe & Toshi Ishizuka / Natsu no sebone Release: June 10, 2010 Alto Saxophone, Bells -- Masayoshi Urabe Percussion -- Toshi Ishizuka Thrilling, bloodshaking, soulscraping and defiantly non-sexless improv set from two Japanese titans. Recorded live at the Apia club in Tokyo in December last year, this set showcases Urabe's uniquely physical approach to improvisation - ferociously concentrated, contorted, sweating and eruptive with physical power. His lines seem to boil up from his flesh, with gurgles, gasps and rasping breath defining sparse, sonic regions in which silence itself seems to breath. Ishizuka is the perfect foil, providing subtle shade and balance around Urabe's transformative sculpting of space. One track, 58 minutes. Comes with a booklet of evocative black and white photographs of the event by Tatsuo Suzuki. The title translates as "The Backbone of Summer".	$18

	PSFD-193 Bonn No Kubo / same Released: December 25, 2009 Second album from striking new Japanese free improv trio, who first shot to prominence on Tokyo Flashback 7 (PSFD-189). The young group consists of Masahiko Ota (guitar), Shintaro Takasugi (contrabass) and Naoto Yamagishi (drums, percussion) - all still in their 20s. They first formed in 2007 and self-released their now sold-out debut album the following year. The group displays a sure sense of structural dynamics and excel at the construction of brooding ambient atmospheres that seem to be informed by traditional Japanese aesthetics. Ota’s acoustic guitar is occasionally reminiscent of the sour, tangled lines of Masayuki Takayanagi, but the group have a confident sense of their own identity that belies their age. A group to watch! Five tracks, 39 minutes. Papersleeve.	$18

	PSFD-192 Derakushi / same Released: November 10, 2009 Sax, Voice -- Shun Suzuki Bass -- Luis Inage Drums -- Norikazu Orizo Guitar -- Kuzuha Throbbing and flailing fusion of free jazz and foot-to-the-floor psychedelic avant-rock! The long-awaited first album from Tokyo's Derakushi, who first grabbed the ears of free skronk aficionados worldwide with their entirely unhinged appearance on Tokyo Flashback 7. The group is driven along by the caverndeep throbbing carburettor hum of Inage's bass and the skittering metallic pistons of Orizo's drumming. Kuzuha spraypaints barbed wire hotrod decals over the wings, while Suzuki tourette-twitches in the driver’s seat like some cartoon monstermeld of Keiji Haino and Kaoru Abe. Basically, a whacked out reimagining of the Takayanagi-Abe duo jamming at a High Rise rehearsal! Five tracks, 38 minutes. Gatefold mini-LP papersleeve with obi.	$18

	PSFSALP-01 Six Organs of Admittance & AZUL split LP Released: 2009	$18 + shipping

	PSFD-191 Tori Kudo / piano solo - He would come home through the window, job in hand Released: July 15, 2009 Piano - Tori Kudo Enticing and beguilingly enigmatic disk of solo improvisations from the leader of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Recorded as a soundtrack for a dance performance by Mari Fujii, these six tracks show Kudo's stunning facility for using the accidental to animate and invigorate complex technique with humanity and wit. The flow of fractured lines and clumpy chords here invoke fleeting memories of pianists of the past, melodies drifting in and out through thickets of dissolving chords like revenant ghosts. Beguiling, entrancing and quite wonderful. Six tracks, 45 minutes. Jewelcase with obi.	$18

	PSFD-190 Painting Petals On Planet Ghost / Haru no omoi Released: July 5, 2009 Vocals, Wind Chimes - Ramona Ponzini Piano, Keyboards, Harmonica, Gong, Cymbal, Percussion, Effects - Roberto Opalio Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Accordion, Gong, Cymbal, Percussion, Etc - Maurizio Opalio Ethereal collaboration between vocalist Ramona Ponzini and the Opalio brothers from the Turin-based psych-experimentalists My Cat Is An Alien. Using Japanese texts from the sensual female poet Akiko Yosano and the 11th century diarist Sei Shonagon (author of The Pillow Book), Ponzini shrouds her crooned and whispered vocals in layered echoes reminiscent of the swirling mists in pine-clad valleys. Around her vocals, the Opalio brothers weave delicate and sensitive filigrees of mostly acoustic instruments, minimal guitar, toy keyboards and softly chiming clouds of percussion. It's a uniquely restful and meditative album, ripe with mysterious atmospheres, recorded over several years in "different mystic locations" in the Western Alps of northern Italy. Seven tracks, 37 minutes. Gatefold mini-LP style papersleeve with obi.	$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-8031 Kazuki Tomokawa / A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado Released: June 10, 2009 Vocals, Guitar: Kazuki Tomokawa Celebrating 35 years of vagabond soul by one of Japan's most distinctive and original folk voices. A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado is Tomokawa's first completely solo album in fifteen years and a full-voiced return to form after his recent illness.	$18

	PSFD-8030 Kan Mikami / -1 Released: 2009	$18