野坂昭如-不浄理の唄

野坂昭如(Akiyuki Nosaka)-不浄理の唄(Fujouri No Uta)
Reissue:  2006-10-25
Lable: Jvc Victor
Tracklist:
1. ぼんぼの唄
2. (野坂昭如弁説)
3. 星の流れに
4. ミロール
5. (野坂昭如弁説)
6. 黒の舟唄
7. 春(野坂唄之新古今集より)
8. 夏(野坂唄之新古今集より)
9. 秋(野坂唄之新古今集より)
10. 冬(野坂唄之新古今集より)
11. バイバイ・ベイビー
12. バージン・ブルース
13. マリリン モンロー ノーリターン
14. (手じめ)
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静香 (shizuka)

Japan's Shizuka were once (and maybe are again) an up-and-coming four-piece Tokyo psych outfit, you might know 'em from their contributions to PSF's Tokyo Flashback compilation series, or their studio album on that same label, or their amazing but now sadly out of print live cd on Persona Non Grata. They even played a great show here in San Francisco at the Kilowatt some years ago that some of us were lucky enough to witness. The prime elements of Shizuka's sound are the Keiji Haino-esque guitar storms of ex-Fushitsusha man Maki, combined with the haunting, sad female vocals of the band's namesake Shizuka (Japanophiles reading this probably also have seen her beautiful and spooky handmade dolls, on the cover of a Land of the Rising Noise comp and elsewhere). This band broke up a while ago, but have apparently recently reunited. No new material has been forthcoming, however, but they have released this live cd-r (recorded in 1995, before the break-up), which will be some consolation to fans. It's a 40-minute long live performance (complete with a fragment of the music being played through the PA prior to their set!) from a club in Tokyo. The recording is great, and their songs are phenomenal. Gorgeous, melancholic stuff, with the gently lulling singing of Shizuka being heartbreaking enough by itself, but also setting the listener up to be destroyed by the fantastic heavy psych controlled-noise outbursts of the guitar when they begin (usually a few minutes into each song). If you're already a Shizuka fan, you'll want this, and if you're into bands like Nagisa Ni Te, Slap Happy Humphrey, and Fushitsusha, you probably do too. Those with less expertise in modern underground Japanese psych -- but who dig the Velvets, Neil Young, or even an imaginary mix of Mazzy Star and Mogwai -- could do a lot worse for an introduction as well.  

Discogs                                             

Shizuka-天界のペルソナ(Persona In Heaven)

Shizuka - Live Shizuka

Shizuka - Tokyo Underground '95

Shizuka - Live: 伝承美学(live traditional aesthete)

Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ) - Metal Machine Music '82

Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ) - Metal Machine Music '82
Year: 2006
Recorded on October 2, 1982 at the Hiyoshi campus of Keio University, Yokohama.
117 minutes in total. Individual tracks accessible via menu.
Tracklist:
1.不明
2.夢割草
3.夜、暗殺者の夜
4.氷の炎
5.黒い悲しみのロマンセ
6.造花の原野
7.The Last One

http://rapidshare.com/files/350692572/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350692550/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350692776/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part3.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350692965/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part4.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350693006/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part5.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350693370/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part6.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350693909/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part7.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/350692474/Les_Rallizes_Denudes_-_Metal_Machine_Music_82.part8.rar

Aihiyo

Aihiyo

Most classic Neo-Psychedelic

Aihiyo - Aihiyo
Label: Tokuma Japan Communications
Year: 28 Jun 1998
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Aihiyo - Live 
Label: P.S.F. Records
Year: 25 Jun 2000
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Laibach－Volk

Laibach－Volk
Year: 2007-02-20
Lable: Mute U.S.


Special 32-page hardbook packaging. VOLK contains 14 songs, 13 reinterpretations of national anthems and the NSK anthem.

Slovenia's infamous, LAIBACH, return with VOLK, their first studio album since 2003's powerful release WAT. VOLK (meaning 'people' in German), is based on National Anthems from countries around the world. The songs of the album form an entity that speaks about the political situation nowadays, it is an acknowledgement but also a warning for the future generations. In the process of recording, the band discovered that the essence of all these anthems is very bloody, even though these reflect the patriotic and national sentiment of these countries. Sonically, Laibach have always reinvented themselves but this album is an even more radical change. Even though Laibachian to its core, the album is based on melodic, nostalgic songs, with an electro-pop feel.　　 


Tracklist:
1. Germania - based on Das Lied der Deutschen (Germany)
2. America - based on The Star-Spangled Banner (USA)
3. Anglia - based on God Save the Queen (UK)
4. Rossiya - based on the post-2000 National Anthem of Russia
5. Francia - based on La Marseillaise (France)
6. Italia - based on Il Canto degli Italiani (Italy)
7. España - based on Marcha Real (Spain)
8. Yisra’el - based on Hatikvah (Israel) and Biladi (Palestine)
9. Türkiye - based on İstiklâl Marşı (Turkey)
10. Zhonghuá - based on March of the Volunteers (People's Republic of China)
11. Nippon - based on Kimi ga Yo (Japan)
12. Slovania - based on Hey, Slavs (unofficial Slavic anthem)
13. Vaticanae - based on Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Vatican City)
14. NSK - the anthem of the Neue Slowenische Kunst


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美狂乱-美狂乱

美狂乱-美狂乱
Lable:キングレコード
Don't have much information but highly recommended !


Tracklist:
1. 二重人格
2. シンシア
3. 狂「パートII」
4. ひとりごと
5. 警告 


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三上寛-Bang

三上寛 (mikami kan)-Bang
Year: 2003-05-05


Tracklist:
1-1(5:57) このレコードを私に下さい
1-2(3:34) 逢えてよかった
1-3(4:58) 華麗なる絶望
1-4(7:37) ＢＡＮＧ！
1-5(5:50) 密漁の夜
1-6(8:39) なんてひどい唄なんだ
1-7(7:02) 赤い馬
1-8(4:01) 最後の最後の最後のサンバ


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Maki Asakawa（浅川 マキ）

Maki Asakawa died, 67 years old.2010/01/17 

about 20:20 myocardial infarctionAt the hotel 

in Nagoya city.The last day of performance of 

three days.She didn't come to the hall.The staff 

found her at the hotel, but..,I wish to express my

 gratitude for your having introduced her. 

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This is the email I got in 17th January

Even though my previous blog closed because I 

put Maki Asakawa's albums

But I still want to put up here and let more people

 hear about the music

I actually have 24 albums here

【裏窓】
【ライヴ 夜】
【SOME YEARS PARST】
【アメリカの夜】
【こぼれる黄金の砂】
【UNDERGROUND】
【Nothing At All To Lose】
【Darkness-1988】
【Darkness I】
【Darkness II】
【Darkness III】
【Darkness Ⅳ】
【ふと或る夜、生き物みたいに
歩いていたので、演奏者たちのokを
もらった (1981)】
【Blue Spirit Blues】
【Cat Nap】
【Asakawa Maki no Sekai,1970+II,1971,LPs】 
2 albums in one link
【One EP】
【Hi Tomoshi Goro (Japan, 1976)】
【Black】
【Yami No Naka Ni Okizari Ni Shite-Black Ni Good
 Luck (Japan, 1998)】
【live】
【こんな風に過ぎて行くのなら】
【幻の女たち】
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Recently her reissued limited box is available 
on HMV,I high recommended for people who like her




10 CDs in the box including:
1.浅川マキの世界(1970.9.5) 
2.裏窓(1973.11.5) 
3.浅川マキライヴ 夜(1978.2.5) 
4.ONE(1980.4.5) 
5.CAT NAP(1982.10.21) 
6.SOME YEARS PARST(1985.2.21) 
7.アメリカの夜(1986.3.1) 
8.こぼれる黄金の砂―What it be like―(1987.2.25) 
9.UNDERGROUND(1987.12.25) 
10.Nothing at all to lose(1988.12.21)
They all almost impossible to buy
So if you like it, you can get it now 
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Balanescu Quartet - Maria T

Balanescu Quartet - Maria T

All I can say is: this is my life time favourite!!!!!

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Tracklist
1. Spot Dance
2. The Young Conscript And The Moon
3. Empty Space Dance
4. Turning Wheels
5. Life And Death
6. Mountain Call
7. Aria
8. Interlude
9. Lullaby
10. Wine's So Good
11. Lullaby Dream

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Katra Turana-Katra Turana

Katra Turana-Katra Turana
KATRA TURANA landed suddenly down on Tokyo underground rock scene as one of obscure Japanese avantgarde outfits in 1980. Their ensemble consisted of some acoustic instruments based on a violin and a piano. On stage they used various rubbishy stuffs as percussion and cooked avantgarde musical dinner with folk, chanson, jazz, and rock essence. And after all, their symbol was Atsushi HIROIKE, the vocalist and the performer disguised as a woman with powerful "feminine" voices. His early life, spent in the "antique" house of his grandparents, should influence much on his musical style and policy.

In 1982, from a Japanese indie label Telegraph Records, KATRA TURANA released the eponymous debut album - featuring as many elements as on stage - that could be approved by lots of avantgarde freaks or reviewers. What a shame they could not get away from underground, and disappeared without notice after releasing the second album "Kimera" (1986). 


Katra Turana (1982)
An amazing jack-in-the-box from Japan. 

KATRA TURANA, one of avantgarde rock outfits in Japan in the 1980s, is known neither all around the world nor only in Japan. As we Japanese know, in those days almost all of anti-establishment or anti-mainstream artists should be immersed underground, and today some of them can see the light - namely, the other cannot be discharged from the underground. KATRA TURANA is one of the outfits still underground and almost unrealized on this ground. A singer, a performer, and the frontman Atsushi HIROIKE always disguised himself as a beautiful woman, performed like a crazy lady, and sang with mischievous feminine voices on stage. Surely your first listening to his voices can deceive you into realizing him as a female singer. And yep, this album itself is exactly a theatre, and lots of instruments are the casts on stage - of course, Atsushi's beautiful and weird vocal is the heroine.

In the first track  Yorokobashiki Ichinichi (One day with pleasure), a plaintive violin solo and "her" graceful voices can open the theatre curtain. Well the Katra Theatre gets started. AndEnsuikei Table (Conical table) is an absolutely dreamy drama! A musical chime solo is inevitably comfortable and streaming violin sounds following this are more graceful and dramatic. Atsushi's voices are mischievously cute but solemnly quiet, without any weirdness in this song. In the middle part, even warped and twisted piano and percussion cannot break the fantasia - some avantgarde spice added, though. However don't be cheated please - after this "her" aggressiveness should growl at you. All instruments including voices are avantgarde soundmakers (soundbreakers?) in Kyo No Sampo Wa Kiri Ga Nai (Today's walk is endless). "Her" voices thrown into chaos are like a part of percussion and you may not feel unnatural. At least I, cannot help feeling as though "her" voices should change "his" ones. Fuka (Hatch) is the last short song on A-side of LP - with very cute voices and a leisurely violin solo, and heavy percussion poppin' up somewhere. Exact opposite of Fuka is the B-side opening track Hontaiji Telephone Ryokitan, a dramatic and slightly sad piano solo with a tidy piccolo, a windy and spicy violin and Oriental percussion is very impressive. Ryokitan is "a bizzare tale" in English - how do you feel? Just as this atmosphere, can you feel? Atsushi's shout is exactly a cry of a goat hahaha - eerie eerie eerie he says certainly! The next Kame No Fue, Kyoryu No Fue (Pipe of tortoise, pipe of dinasour) is again a plaintive song - by flexible and take-it-easy violin sounds and pretty pipe shots, and cutie named Atsushi. From the middle the air should go weird gradually...the painful repetition of the pipe and the eerie violin scatter, with exotic percussion rubbish...they cannot get away still either. The last March is exactly the last stage of the theatre - the loudly exaggerated end of the show! There you can taste bitter-sweet left, I'm sure. 


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