From A Strange Place
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As with many a concert by mature incarnations of AMM, a large portion of this 1995 live event in Japan is quiet, spare, and gestural. Pianist John Tilbury is in post-Feldman mode throughout, softly raining isolated, lovely figures while Eddie Prévost delicately, if atonally, bows cymbals and other metals, and quietly rustles objects over his drumheads. Keith Rowe’s muted rubbings and radio transmission are supremely attuned to the ruminations of his companions.
Live At Inroads
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This 1992 reissue of Cluster Project’s 1983 cassette is one of the heaviest live documents of the original Borbetomagus big-band (Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich on saxophones, Donald Miller on guitar and Brian Doherty on live electronics). Nothing beats the glorious primal gush of these guys in flight, and Live At In-Roads remains the source of so much that came after, as well the first ever release by a western group on PSF.
Peak To Peak
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“Electric strings…, saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease from meditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter,” says Eddie Flowers about this 1994 disc, “The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology.”
Tamafumi
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Originally released on cassette on this husband-wife duo’s Shaman Label in 1985, Shizuko and Toshio Orimo’s fantastically charged blend of ultra-propulsive ethnic drone, free jazz drumming with harsh noise textures and intense, almost possessed vocal incantations “feels intensely dangerous, like a nuclear reactor-core going into meltdown, throwing out waves of radiation and intense heat.”
Musica Transonic
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“Jagged energy” is how Burning Ambulance characterizes the debut album from the mid-1990s by Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple on guitar, ex-High-Rise Asahito Nanjo on bass, and Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins on drums, “Built around skyscraper-sized garage-rock riffs.” Sealed
Kankei UFO From Zanryu-shinen
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The third volume in the label’s Japanese Avant Garde Cassette Reissue Series utilizes prepared instruments, and rejects regular rhythms and melodic development. At their commune north of Tokyo, this recording-only offshoot of Amanita jammed endlessly throughout the ’90s, filling their performance space with the “signs of blood and feverish becomings” as a means to communicate with the afterlife, the cosmos and manifestations of paranormal accidents. With obi
Tokyo Flashback
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Tracks by Marble Sheep & The Run-Down Sun’s Children, High-Rise, Ghost, Fushitisusha, White Heaven, Verzerk, Kousukuya, Keiji Haino. With obi. From 1991
PSF & Alchemy (20th Anniversary Live)
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Tracks by Kan Mikami and Jojo Hiroshige, EXIAS-J, Kazuo Imai and Incapacitants, Marble Sheep, Keiji Haino and Narita Munehiro, L & Friends, Masayoshi Urabe & Junko, Go Hirano & Takshi Ueno. From 2005
JMSA Presents Wave From Free Music Undecided
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Previously unreleased live recordings from late 2003 and early 2004 by Keiji Haino (hurdy-gurdy), Kazuo Imai (guitar), Junichiro Okuchi (piano), Michihiro Sato (tsugaru syamisen), Yoshihide Otomo (turntable), Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax). The six solo tracks here document a series of lecture-concerts at Mesar Haus in Tokyo, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music. “Approaches vary between the grey kaleidoscopic fields of Haino’s hurdy-gurdy, the art-brut physical terrorism of Urabe, the traditional improvisatory, plucking style of Sato, and the anti-fundamentalist feedback dialectics of Otomo’s turntable work. All bore channels through time-space continua and consensus reality like no one’s business.”
Strange Bedfellow
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Classic West-Coast-style psychedelia and garage transmuted into a thrillingly direct collection that spans fuzz-drenched, driving rockers and smoldering numbers that fade into the night. First edition of 700 from 1992.