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1. ABE KAORU: “Mort A Credit” (Kojima/ ALM – ALCD-8-9) (2 CD Set: Near Mint/ Mini LP gatefold Sleeve: Near Mint/ Obi: Near Mint/ Outer Slipcase: Excellent). Recorded in 1975 and released in 1976. This was the last album of the legendary sax howler Abe to be released in his lifetime. The title was taken from a Céline novel, since Abe was a huge fan of the French writer. The recording consists of two alto improvisations, taken from a concert staged on October 18th, 1975 and five more (two on soprano, three on alto) taken from another performance a couple of days earlier. Abe brings forth a real tour de force in which roughly cut-off notes are spaced so regularly that their rhythms are like watching a slowed-down strobe light. With run after run of harsh, crude and almost bawdy staccato honking, he speedily races through the octaves in ascending and descending anti-order cadence, infused at times with shrill squeaks and squeals, an occasional blood curling melody and references of non-existent simplistic and jokey tunes. Furious forehead center blowing guts of dancing note clusters on your earlobe. Generally speaking does Abe's performance on this disc resembles a high tensioned sound, like a killer babe dressed only in high-heeled stiletto boots trampling on your private parts. A real killer, portraying Abe in a fascinating period of transition, delivering a highly salient and audaciously experimental recording that blows all of the nowadays would be improvisation impersonators straight out of the water with their tail whopping between their legs. Price: 60 Dollars
2. ABE KAORU & TOYOZUMI YOSHIZABURO: “Overhang Party” (Kojima/ ALM – URCD-2) (2 CD Set: Near Mint/ Mini LP gatefold Sleeve: Near Mint/ Obi: Near Mint/ Outer Slipcase: Excellent). Stellar duo head on collision between Abe and free hitter/ skin mangler Toyozumi. The interaction between the two of them creates fireworks of improvisational exquisiteness, free rambling seat sniffing combustion that on some occasions instigated Abe to divert his attention from his beloved sax towards marimba and piano hammerings joined with harmonica blow-outs. Ferocious, ghastly and kerosene charged head slamming action between two of Japan's first wave free jazz terrorists. Quite rare disc that is getting more and more difficult to track down. Abe is indispensable in any one's collection that bothers to have an interest in outward-bound sounds. Blows any of the currently hyped wanna-be improvisers straight out of the water since Abe embodied musical greatness, inventiveness and tonal diversity all in one. Why settle for less when greatness is daggling in front of your eyes? Price: 60 Dollars
3. ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE: “Dokonan” (Acid Mothers temple – AMTDVD-001). (Sealed). In 2002, French film maker Audrey Gineset & Estelle Journoud accompanied AMT on their US tour to shoot a documentary film. More than just a document of a band on tour, the film looks at differences in culture and values, examining America both through French eyes and through the eyes of a Japanese band on tour in America . Main feature 54 minutes + extras and bonus visual material. Inc performances of Pink Lady Lemonade, La Novia, In E, Improvisation etc. & Bonus tracks. Completely sold out at the source and released in a miniscule edition, here is your chance to grab a still sealed copy. Price: 30 Dollars
4. A HANDFUL OF DUST: “Musica Humana” (Corpus Hermeticum – Hermes005) (Paper outer Jacket: Excellent/ Inner gatefold Jacket: Excellent/ Booklet: Excellent/ CD: Excellent). Corpus Hermeticum is Bruce (Xpressway, Dead C) Russell's label. Handful of Dust is a free-art-noise group mainly made up of Russell and Alastair Galbraith (Peter Stapleton also appears on drums sometimes). The unit is an eclectic ever fluid set of musicians whose music is steeped in esoteria and who rarely perform more than once every 12 months. Much of the band's work appears to be based upon the philosopher Athanius Kirchner's tonal theories. Subtitled "Collected Works 1990-93", this is a compilation of all previously available material, including the now o/p Concord LP & "A Little Aesthetic Discourse" 7" on Twisted Village, plus various comp tracks. Also includes volume 2 of Bruce's magazine of philosophy, music and culture-critique: Logopandocy: The Journal of Vain Erudition. フォームの終わりPrice: 22 Dollars
5. ASO AI: “Umerumono” (Oz Disc – EHE-027) (CD: Mint/ Obi: Mint/ Booklet: Mint/ case: Mint) rare and long out of print 2001 release, Aso Ai's first released artifact. Aso's debut recordings on the tiny and illustrious Oz Disc label had slipped by unnoticed through the mazes of the net. Aso Ai first appeared on the so-called music circuit around the year 2000 with the release of her debut single “Amaihibiki”, closely followed the following year by her full length CD “Umerumono”. Both releases slowly fell into slumber, disappearing into the gasping wounds of total obscurity until the freshly ignited Pedal Records label, led by former White Heaven guitarist Nakamura Souichirou, decided not to let Aso Ai's exceptional talent go to waste and set out to conflagrate her sonic isolationism. Upon listening and witnessing Aso's music, I could not but be struck by the bare stark nakedness and an almost “less is more” aesthetic that resonated out of every slow motion-like action she sings into being through her desolate tunes. Desolate as in stripped down of all artificial distractions, intellectual constructivism and violent sonic pollution, Aso's musical universe is one of limited notation and well balanced fragile “bossa-novelistic psychedelics”. She quietly sets out, throughout the entire album, to show a graceful, yet sharp moving floating stride. From the first, almost minimalist approach, the atmospheric angelical quality and utterly erotic naïveté that breaths through her delicate vocals, one can feel a premonition towards an unprecedented relationship she beholds for a lyrical and soft poetic shape that feels like an introverted and at times almost religious affair her music embraces. Like the fragrance of a freshly picked cherry blossom, Aso Ai's sonic universe is as fleeting and as fragile but in the mean time strong enough to face the seasonal climate changes the buds gets confronted with. Price: 50 Dollars
6. AVARUS: “Ruskeatimantti” (tUMULt) (Mint). “This double cd collects the early recorded works of the mysterious Finnish free folk collective Avarus. Previously released as limited run cd-r's and 7"s (in tiny runs of 50-200 copies), these tracks are a tantalizing glimpse into the mist-shrouded musical world of Finnish underground music, equal parts the hypno rock of fellow countrymen Circle, the pagan ritualism of The Wicker Man, the droning throb of Faust, the propulsive rhythm of Can, and the lo-fi clatter and skree of the Dead C.  Imagine a land of forests and fjords, a land of dark skies and windswept landscapes. Then imagine the sort of music this land would evoke. Droning hypnotic clattery free folk, dark and propulsive, mesmeric Krautrock, rhythmic pagan musical rituals, all detuned guitars and hand drums, chanting and wild free percussion, and everything in between. Avarus combine psychedelic folk rock, motorik Krautrock, free jazz and modern noise into a totally mesmerizing, totally unique modern avant noise/folk, unfurling lengthy meandering almost funereal jams, desolate and mournful, but dreamy and pastoral, machinelike and hypnotic at the same time. Strummed acoustic guitars frame distant throbbing caveman percussion, dreamy soundscapes are punctuated by occasional clang and clatter, all swaddled in the warm drone of amp buzz and ambient hum. Lo-fi, rambling, ramshackle blues jams mutate into wildly propulsive psych-folk with intensely strummed guitars and far-away flute melodies. Dipping their toes into whatever variant of their unique 'sound' that strikes their fancy, Avarus sway woozily from atonal Jandek-ian campfire hippy hoedowns, to wild jams with spastic drumming and sing-songy melodies plucked out on beat up, strangely tuned guitars, to wild clattery bursts of percussion splattered haphazardly over a Skullflower-ish skree, to stripped down, jangly hyperactive psychedelic rock to loose ambient soundscapes of whir and buzz and twang, with slithery, sitar-like guitars. Occasionally Avarus kick up quite a racket, a thick slab of sound, with LOTS of guitars, feedback and some seriously dense drumming, recorded hot and overblown, adding just the right amount of distortion and haze to the recording. It almost sounds like some New Zealand noise rock band like Gate or UK psych/drone ensemble Sunroof! -covering- Avarus! Epic and endless, rumbling and stumbling, spacey psychedelic folk jams spread over two discs, TWO PLUS HOURS. Imagine the Total or The Dead C playing Finnish forest music. Or the Tower Recordings covering International Harvester next door to Reynolds' practice space? Droning, damaged clatter, like the wild drunken cavorting of drugged out hippy carpenters. Spacey and druggy and totally mesmerizingly beautiful.” (Label Description). Price: 14 Dollars
7. BOREDOMS: “Vision Creation Newsun” (A.K.A. Records - WPC6-10044/10045) (2 CD: Excellent ~ Near Mint/ 2CD Gatefold Mini LP Styled Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint/ Box: Excellent/ Sonic Device: Excellent/ Inner Tray: Excellent/ T-Shirt: Excellent, but needs to be washed). Complete Japan only released set housed in a nice box set that upon opening greets you with a chorus of frog sounds squirming out of a little sound device that reacts to light. The 2 CD set is set in a rectangular petal underneath of which you can find the exclusive “Vision Creation Newsun” T-Shirt that came with this set. Released on October 27th, 1999. Cutting and mashing it into pieces that coalesce into long tribal jams, digitally vibrating and crashing all the while. Snippets and references to Neu!, Hawkwind, Cosmic Jokers and other space trekkers become audible through the whole gamut of sound, making this truly a trip through psyched out hell. With trebly, bell-like sounds running through, a large chunk of "Rebore 0" sounds like the top octaves of a computer-controlled gamelan amok, supplemented by electronic bird and cricket choruses and forcefully underlined all the way through by stumbling drum patterns. A rare moment of calm occurs with (seemingly) acoustic guitar samples arranged delicately, while yowling and mewling plays in the background. Altogether an absolutely brilliant take, with large portions of "Vision Creation New Sun" still recognizable, but placed in an entirely different setting. A self-portrait in a shattered mirror. Getting impossible to get CD box set complete with working sonic devise upon opening, 2 CD's, gatefold jacket and T-Shirt, complete set!!! Price: 150 Dollars
8. CHIAKI NAOMI: “Sorezore no Teburu” (Victor – VICL-62347) (CD and Jacket are sealed). Sealed mini-LP styled jacket CD of this quintessential Chiaki Naomi album. Like Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan already stated, Chiaki Naomi is one of the most beautiful – if not the most stunning – of all Japanese female kayokyoku singers who sadly cut her career short when her husband died. She hasn't been seen in public since. This album is out of her latter period but any album by Chiaki Naomi is stunning. Recommended. Price: 20 Dollars
9. CHIAKI NAOMI: “Three Hundreds Club”(Victor – VICL-62348) (CD and Jacket are sealed). Sealed mini-LP styled jacket CD of this quintessential Chiaki Naomi album, the follow-up to the “Sorezore no Teburu” LP. Like Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan already stated, Chiaki Naomi is one of the most beautiful – if not the most stunning – of all Japanese female kayokyoku singers who sadly cut her career short when her husband died. She hasn't been seen in public since. This album is out of her latter period but any album by Chiaki Naomi is stunning. Recommended. Price: 20 Dollars
10. CHIAKI NAOMI: “Taimu”(Victor – VICL-62349) (CD and Jacket are sealed). Sealed mini-LP styled jacket CD of this quintessential Chiaki Naomi album, the follow up to the “Three Hundereds Club” LP. Like Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan already stated, Chiaki Naomi is one of the most beautiful – if not the most stunning – of all Japanese female kayokyoku singers who sadly cut her career short when her husband died. She hasn't been seen in public since. This album is out of her latter period but any album by Chiaki Naomi is stunning. Recommended. Price: 20 Dollars
11. CHIAKI NAOMI: “Minato ga Mieru Oka” (Victor – VICL-62350) (CD and Jacket are sealed). Sealed mini-LP styled jacket CD of this quintessential Chiaki Naomi album, the follow-up to the “Taimu” LP. Like Tomokawa Kazuki and Mikami Kan already stated, Chiaki Naomi is one of the most beautiful – if not the most stunning – of all Japanese female kayokyoku singers who sadly cut her career short when her husband died. She hasn't been seen in public since. This album is out of her latter period but any album by Chiaki Naomi is stunning. Recommended. Price: 20 Dollars
12. CLUSTER: “S/T” (Universal Japan) (CD's and Box are all Mint). Limited edition Japan only 4 CD Box. There were the individual CD's are not limited, the box that houses all 4 of them is limited to 300 copies only as a special package deal by one of Tokyo's biggest record outlets. These boxes sold out in a week. The four CD's in question are Cluster II, Cluster's “Zuckerzeit”, Harmonia “Deluxe” and Harmonia “Musik Von”. All are packaged in high quality Japan only mini-Lp paper sleeve jackets, complete with obi and inserts. Truly gorgeous set that combines all those early related Roedelius and Plank masterpieces, neatly held together in a hard-case slipcase box. Highest recommendation. Price: 150 Dollars
13. DANIEL SCHELL – DICK ANNEGARN: “Egmont and the ff Boom” (Musique Belgique Archive – MB001) (CD and gatefold sleeve are new). The LP ‘Egmont and the ff Boom' tells the history of the traditional polyphonic music from the Low Countries, using the personage of Egmont, Count of Gaasbeek (1522-1568) as a theme. All music was recorded in the 70's, all based around the unique and traditional polyphonic music of the 16th century, featuring, next to the two mentioned artists, an impressive range of guest musicians/artists. Daniel Schell is of course known from the projects Cos and Karo with releases on Made To Measure / Crammed Discs and Pascale Son was part of that Cos project too. Than there's Michel Berckmans, one of the influential musicians of Univers Zero and Aksak Maboul and Ilona Chale, a cult vocalist who released a track on the ‘Noises' compilation on Kamikaze, way back… These are just a few of the artists that collaborate on this magnificent but sadly overlooked and largely unknown album. In all it tells about his search for the real traditional music from the low countries and about Egmont, who died on a scaffold on the Grande Place in Brussels. His martyr death represents the cultural genocide ordered by Philippe II, who took the lives of 15.000 other men, mostly Flemish rebels who were against the Spanish occupation of the low lands, the so called Gueux. Music wise the disc dwells into a wide array of music styles without ever loosing its coherent approach that fuses polyphonic Flemish traditions, folk, medieval stylings, psychedelic mindsets and lysergic Gong influenced deep space trekkings into a meltingpot of subtle folk shapes with a touch of electricity that in its course birth out evocative flashes of majestic psychedelic architecture and crooning with timeless cocktail folk moves and moments of a culturally defunct Belgian opera. One of the best albums to seep out of Belgium, awesome from beginning to finish. Rarely surfaces these days, even in the Low Countries. Highest recommendation. Price: 22 Dollars
14. DNA: “Last Live At CBGB” (Avan – AVAN006) (Disc: Near Mint/ Case: Excellent/ Obi: Near Mint/ Booklet: Near Mint).Long out of print fantastic DNA live set recorded back in their active days. “A live set from CBGB's of the legendary no wave band with members Arto Lindsay, Tim Wright and Ikue Mori. Their approach was to take the already pared-down ethos of punk rock and strip it even further of ornamentation, including the dismantling of the rockish song structure. The tunes are raw, turbulent, disjointed, and short; many end before the listener begins to have a grasp on them. Lindsay's strangled yelp of a voice is dominant here, his words a steady flow of everyday non-sequiturs. Interestingly, given his direction in ensuing years, he is already occasionally referencing the Portuguese of his Brazilian childhood. His studiedly naive guitar technique is in full flower by this point, sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey. Wright and Mori provide what structural spine there is, the former alluding in several instances to Captain Beefheart bassist Rockette Morton, the latter pounding with joyous abandon. Hearing DNA was a cathartic experience for many musicians in the experimental New York scene of the early '80s looking to combine the power of punk with avant-garde and improvisatory elements; album producer John Zorn cited them as an influence in the creation of his Naked City band, for example. While it's impossible to recreate the atmosphere of the time, this disc goes a long way in demonstrating what the excitement was about. Recommended.” (Brian Olewnick) Spot on description that adequately covers the musical load here on display. Historical mindbending recording!! Price: 35 Dollars
15. EAST BIONIC SYMPHONIA: “S/T” (ALM RECORDS – CAL-3001) (Tape: Mint/ Case: Mint/ Insert: Mint/ Cover: Mint). Bloody rare ALM tape of this monster disc, original pressing and released in late seventies in hideously small run. All is mint. Original release that came out simultaneously with the LP set but unlike the LP the tape was even released in a smaller run, not exceeding the 250 copies. SOLD

16. ERI CHIEMI: “SP Genban Sairoku ni Yoru Eri Chiemi Hitto Arubamu Vol. 2” (King Records – KICX-3115) (CD: Excellent/ Case: Mint/ Booklet: Mint). Stellar collection of chanteuse Eri Chiemi who was mainly active between 1950 ~ 1952. During the late 30s until the end of WW2, jazz was banned due to war circumstances and the militarist government of rule Japan . On the other hand, western music flourished right after WW2 starting from jazz. Many Japanese who had survived the tremors of the war claim that they were fascinated by American culture and in particular jazz, and that it encouraged them to struggle there way up the ladder from ruins reduced cities to achieve a new and brighter life. Female singers like Izumi Yukimura, Chiemi Eri, Peggy Hayama, male bandsmen like George Kawaguchi, Franky Sakai, Sadao Watanabe are well-known to this day. Eri was born in 1937 and began singing to American soldiers while she was still in the fourth grade of primary school. Just like Yukimura Izumi, Eri also debuted with jazz numbers and soon became a nation-wide star as one of the Sannin Musume, a trio consisting of three very popular eighteen year old singers (Hibari, Chiemi Eri, and Izumi Yukimura). As one could imagine, the Sannin Musume films were also extremely popular and chances are you've heard “Come On-A My House” and “Tennessee Waltz” many times, but you probably haven't heard either of them delivered by an adorable young Japanese girl backed by a jazz band. She evidently was a big star in post-war Japan , and her recordings of American pop standards were often the first versions people there heard of them. One of her movie titles translates to "Youthful Jazz Daughter," a grouping of words many an indie rock band would kill to have as one of their song titles. I myself am a big sucker for this stuff and love it to death. Eri sings confidently, but still with tons of girlish charm, and the King Orchestra swings magically behind her. If you are a hip cat, then this music will hopelessly fail to grab you by the balls, but if you are a music nut and are into broadening your horizon far beyond what your friends tell you is hip, then I urge you to investigate this long forgotten world. A real brain and ear opener. Price: 30 Dollars
17. FLOWER TRAVELLING BAND: “SATORI CD BOX SET” (Strange Days Records) (CD's and Box are new). Limited edition to 500 copies slipcase box set that housed 3 FTB albums, being Satori, Made In Japan and Make Up. These three come in identical mini-Lp styled sleeves, being a cardboard mini mailer for Made In Japan, complete with miniaturized inserts; gatefold Jacket and outer leather bag for “Make Up” (identical to the original LP) and gatefold sleeve for Satori, complete with reproduction of the original inserts. Next to that the box set comes with bonus artwork being reproduction mini 7 inch sleeves of “Crash” and “Satori” plus identical mini-LP styled sleeve reproductions of their sole Canadian pressed album and Joe with Flower Traveling Band “The Times” sleeve. This set is just too beautiful to handle. Disappearing fast on these shores, limited edition and sole one time only pressing with this box. Fabulously great. Price: 180 Dollars

18. FLOWER TRAVELLING BAND: “Made In Japan ” (Strange Days) (CD: Near Mint/ Cardboard Box: Near Mint/ Obi: Near Mint/ Inserts: Near Mint). The most beautiful CD reissue I have ever seen of this legendary album. Released in 2004 in a tiny collectors edition of only 500 copies, this CD issue is presented identically to the LP version of this sucker, meaning that it is housed in a miniaturized version of the cardboard box/ mailer with paste on newspaper, obi and complete with 4 different inserts being a identical reproduction of the 4 paged liners, a press release, a mailing card to the FTB fan club and extensive liner notes. This edition dried up in merely a few days. A sight for sour eyes, stunningly beautiful and in totally mint condition.  Price: 70 Dollars
19. FOOD BRAIN: “Bansan – Social Gathering” (P-Vine) (CD: Near Mint/ Mini LP hardcover Gatefold Sleeve: Near Mint/ Obi: Near Mint/ Insert: Near Mint). Long deleted deluxe CD issue of this all time masterpiece. Comes with obi and insert. This is an exact duplicate of the original disc that came out on Polydor in October 1970 and was legally reissued by P-Vine in 1999 in an edition of 500 copies. Everything to this disc is identical to the original, even the labels. Pressed on heavy duty vinyl and housed in a heavy fold out thick as wood carton sleeve, it will come as no surprise that these babies sold out quickly when they were released upon an unsuspecting crowd in 1999. Also known under the title "Social Gathering", "Bansan" was Food Brain's sole recorded output. This is partly due to the fact that Food Brain was but a mere session group, erected out of the crème of the crème of the early seventies Japanese psychedelic underground scene. The line-up is just mouth watering and consisted out of Shinki Chen of Speed Glue and Shinki on guitar, Yanagida Hiro of Apryl Fool on organ, Kabe Masayoshi of Apryl Fool and Golden Cups on bass and ex-Jacks drummer Tsunoda Hiro. The music is a great jam session with wailing organ riffs, sneering acidic guitar insertions, blood clotting pounding bass lines and vicious snare drum insertions. Some free jazz like clarinet insertions also pop up un this all time Japanese psych mayhem disc, due to the courtesy of Kimura Michihiro. A real psychedelic, free improvisation and progressive masterpiece. Legendary to say the least. Completely vanished so here is your chance to obtain a great and superb copy of this all time jaw dropping classic. Price: 45 Dollars
20. GHOST: “Hypnotic Underworld” (Drag City – DC249CD) (CD/ Case & Booklet are near Mint). “Hallelujah! Ghost are back! Since Drag City's simultaneous release of their Snuff Box Immanence and Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet albums back in 1999, we hadn't heard hide nor hair of Japan's wonderful acid-folksters Ghost (unless you count their liason with Damon & Naomi). Indeed we'd begun to wonder what was up with Masaki Batoh, Michio Kurihara and crew -- we missed them! And in those four or five years, it seemed that fans of '70s inspired Japanese psychedelic music had switched their allegiance to the much more prolific Acid Mothers Temple camp led by Kawabata Makoto who emerged in the meantime. But we Ghost fans know that, as good as AMT can be, in the realm of cosmic communal Japanese hippy rock, there is no comparison. Ghost rule that particular hypnotic underworld. Depth, beauty, originality -- on all those counts they have it over AMT. Unlike the excessive pastiche of AMT, there's nothing tongue in cheek about Ghost. And as for quality control, well, you do the math. So, needless to say, we were supremely excited to get this brand new Ghost album! The sun was sure 'tangging' the day this showed up. Word was that this might be Ghost's best album yet, and while we each have our favorites (mine's Lama Rabi Rabi, with their self-titled debut in close competition) this was immediately revealed as a contender. In short, it's freakin' great. Ghost explore some heavier, rockier, more prog-tastic directions in some of these songs, yet let their incomparable delicate psych-folk flow as well. Stirring guitar/drums workouts coexist with Batoh's fragile vocals and trembling sunshine melodies. And Terrascopic trainspotters will be interested to know that Ghost interpret songs by both Syd Barrett and the obscure '70s Dutch prog-rock act Earth & Fire, and make them completely their own. The album takes its name from the four-part, 25-minute suite that opens this disc, which ventures from lovely, hazy jazz-inflected jams to bombastic, utterly prog-rock flourishes complete with grandiose choirs. That alone is worth having waited four or five years for!” (Aquarius Records) Price: 15 Dollars
21. HADAKA NO RALLIZES/ LES RALLIZES DENUDES: “Black Rainbow” (Univive Oriental Masters – Univive-004) (2 CDR Set and Boxed case are all Mint). One the earliest Univive releases, long gone and out of print. Another slab of stroboscopic dementia, this time recorded live in concert at Shibuya's famed after hours cum live house Yaneura at March 23rd, 1981. The early eighties were without a single doubt the best period of the band, pacing through a set of only 4 numbers but spun out into infinity and impregnated with an ever pulsating vibe of minimalist hallucinating hypnotic blizz towards a stroboscopic inferno. Again awesome and hard to come by now up for grabs. Highly recommended set. Price: 70 Dollars
22. HAINO KEIJI: “Keeping On Breathing - Iki O Shiteiru Mama” (Tokuma Japan – TKCF-77016) (CD: Mint/ Case: Mint/ Booklet: Mint/ Obi: Mint) Released April 21, 1997. If I were thinking of a good place to start listening to Haino solo, I would select "Keeping on Breathing" and "I said, this is the son of nihilism". "Keeping on Breathing" is a flawless excursion into what Haino does best on guitar and voice. There are some violent vocal sections reminiscent of Watashi-Dake and there are some more Haino-improv guitar oriented sections. The sound quality is very fine. This disc is definitely not a guitar-roar wall-of-noise experiment. Price: 75 Dollars
23. HAINO KEIJI: “The 21st Century Hard-Y-Guide-Y Man – Even Now, Still I Think” (Tokuma Japan – TKCF023 – 1997) (CD: Mint/ Case: Mint/ Booklet: Mint/ Obi: Mint). This album is a crown jewel of modern improvisational music. Haino brings sound down like a rain cloud. At times it falls hard and other times it slowly soaks you. The music is wet with all of the dark beauty I have ever heard in a musical recording. I can't get over how completely moved I am every time I hear it. I would recommend checking out the track that Halana released on their CD which accompanies their publication (issue 2). Haino brings us a dark sky in this recording but one with twinkling stars. This is the most optimism that I have heard from Haino and it is a great comfort to encounter that in his music. Don't fear this album cheering you up, it's just easier to take in than most. Get it, feel it. Price: 70 Dollars
24. HAINO KEIJI: “Saying I love You, I continue to Curse Myself” (Blast First – BFFP-109) (Mint). Long out of print and limited to 500 copies only 1995 Blast First release. SOLD
25. HASEGAWA SHIZUO: “I Know A Chord Buried Into The Ground And A Tongue On A Cloud” (Haang Niap Records Haang-001) (Sealed) Fabulous new album of Tiliqua's favorites, Hasegawa Shizuo. Since I have been too busy to come up with sensible things to pen down, I took the liberty of borrowing David Keenan's words “Self-released Japan-only album from the higher-mind duo of Shizuo Uchida and Hirotomo Hasegawa aka Hasegawa-Shiuzo. Previous releases on PSF and Tiliqua have orbited the O-mind with alla the force of an octopus in zero gravity, with strings and ethnic drone instruments floating in waves of macro/micro bliss. This latest release ups the ante even more, with a more aggressively nuanced attack on post Taj Mahal Travellers group mind aesthetics and it makes for one of the best contemporary communal psych releases since the last Marginal Consort action. Edited down from one massive all-day improvisatory ritual recorded in the open air, there are passages here that are as deeply refracted as anything on the Zweistein set, with distant, barely-there harmonica laments sounded from deep inside torrents of unearthly electronic chatter, what sounds like monks gargling electricity while floating slowly into the void, the sound of strings bisecting strings in the mode of a fleet of Takehisa Kosugi's conducted by Joe Jones, environmental sound illuminated by tiny pointillist conflations of insect harmonics and devouring drones… If your jones is for the medieval Sci-Fi flash of groups like Taj Mahal Travellers, Nijiumu, Group Ongaku etc (and whose isn't?) then dump the skinny jeans and new wave flunk and get the hell back on board. Comes packaged in a full color Japanese-style gatefold sleeve with obi. Highly recommended.” (David Keenan). Price: 18 Dollars
26. HARMONIA: “Musik Von” (Brain Japan ) (CD, Case, Obi: Mint). First Japanese edition CD of this all time krautrock masterpiece. Indispensable and after all those years still manages to sound extremely innovative and outward bound. Price: 14 Dollars
27. HELDON: “Electric Guerilla” (Captain Trip) (Paper Sleeve Jacket/ Obi/ CD: Sealed). Limited edition Japan reissue of the 1st Heldon disc. Great beautiful packaging and even more brilliant music. New and unopened. Highly essential. Price: 20 Dollars
28. HELDON: “Heldon Third” (Captain Trip) (Paper Sleeve Gatefold Jacket/ Obi/ 2 x CD: Sealed). Limited edition Japan reissue of the 3rd Heldon disc. Great beautiful packaging and even more brilliant music. New and unopened. Highly essential. Price: 30 Dollars
29. HIJOKAIDAN: “Satsuondensetsu – The Neverending Story of the King of Noise” (Alchemy Records – ARCD-046/49) (4 CD Box set/ CD's: All Mint/ Box set: EX, has some minor edge wear/ Booklet: Near Mint). Without a single doubt one of the rarest and most desirable Hijokaidan items is this 4-CD box set that came out in the early nineties as a strictly 500 copies hand numbered edition. Spread over the four CD's, the box unveils some rare tracks and recordings dating back to Hijokaidan's first months of activity, rare concert appearances, dislocated performances and other chunks of inferno turmoil that do not appear on any other format. According to these ears, this set is THE defining Hijokaidan and one of the greatest noise artifacts ever to be unleashed upon innocent ears. The box is bound to blowtorch your soul and will scorn the soil you walk on. Compiled out of rare and unissued tracks ranging from the early days of 1979 up until 1992, Hijokaidan aptly demonstrate that they are the kings of noise with their abrasive and rich tonal textured slabs of sonic inquisitional hotwired circuits geared up to the max. When the first salvo erupts from your speakers you know already that they will leave any present day wanna-be noiz-nick (like so many these days) gasping for air, sucking the living daylights out of those snot-nosed pimple faced bedroom/ballroom anarchists. Hijokaidan is the real deal and travels into the same space-way realms as LAFMS' Airway collective. Hedonistic electronic tape abuse, layered and fuzzed-out swirl of dilated sonic gestures, spin-off speedway feedback, feral holocaust analogue torture and musique concrete collages can be considered as key words here. A real blood-churning racket. Ultimate high recommendation and X-rated hard to come by these days. Number to 500 copies only issue, this one being copy 201/500. SOLD
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