birch book - tomorrows sun will rise the same

Birch book - tomorrows sun will rise the same
Label: Not On Label (Birch Book Self-released)

Country: US

Released: Mar 2010

Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Rock

Style: Neofolk

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Kumiko Akiyoshi-Kumiko Akiyoshi

Kumiko Akiyoshi-Kumiko Akiyoshi
秋吉久美子-秋吉久美子
Lable: ELEC
Year: 2006-05-24


Here's another rare and unique record originally released in 1970. It features acclaimed Japanese actress Kumiko Akiyoshi on vocals and the legendary Yonin Bayashi as her backup band. The music they create together has a nice mellow feeling, with an emphasis on childlike melodies and a few influences of traditional Japanese folk songs. Much of this record is quite beautiful. Towards the second side of the record, it gets a little stranger with a few tracks dedicated to Akiyoshi's telephone conversations with people. In a few calls, she is friendly and is making conversation concerning a date or appointment with friend/lover. In other conversations, she is heard dealing with a stalker of some sort. Strange stuff...but it makes the album as a whole all the more an intriguing listen.

Fans of Morita Douji, Yonin Bayashi, Ike Reiko (and other selection from the fascinating Pinky Violence re-issue series) should find much to enjoy here.


Tracklist:

01.- 赤い靴

02.- しゃぼんだま

03.- 星の流れに

04.- 東京ブルース

05.- エリカの花散るとき

06.- えんがちょ

07.- おそまつさまでした

08.- 10人のインデアン

09.- フロイト

10.- 天才

11.- 未来への想い出

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon
IMBD
While the opening sequence of a woman following a faceless figure with a flower is persistently repeated, images of key and knife intensify their vividness, and then dream and reality permeate into each other's realms. Maya Deren's first and probably best film, Meshes of the Afternoon, is an amalgam of traditional narrative and European-imported surrealism. It is also one of many triumphs in the film history that fearlessness and youthfulness conquer the lack of expenses and experiences.


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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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Laibach－Let It Be

Laibach－Let It Be
Year: 1992
Lable: Mute U.S.
Having successfully polarised opinion between those who thought they were a deeply sinister claque of Balkan neo-fascists, and those who had concluded that Laibach were an amusing but rather silly situationist prank, Laibach trumped all expectation and belief with Let It Be: a cover version of the entire Beatles album of the same name, with the exception of the title track. The sleeve was also a pastiche of the original: Laibach's four core members glowering into the middle distance with the grim determination of Eastern Front foot soldiers determined to see out the Russian winter and storm Moscow when the snows melt; inside is a grisly black-and-white representation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


A response to the situation in Slovenia in '88, Laibach transcended the limitations of statist politics and classic rock stereotypes by reworking the only Beatles album not arranged by George Martin. By presenting the first cultured interpretations of the compositions, Laibach moved into the realm of Haydn and Dvorak.


There may well have been some sort of point to it all--Laibach always gave the impression that there was, even if it was likely to be lost on anyone outside the group--but it hardly matters. Let It Be is one of the most hilarious albums ever made. "Get Back" is rendered in Laibach's trademark style, reworked as a gruff, Germanic marching song. "Two Of Us", "Dig A Pony" and "For You Blue" are similarly riotous fun, and "The Long And Winding Road" is barely recognisable, a ghostly, atonal and oddly beautiful lament, back-dropped by ominously chanting crowds. The crowning achievement, however, is a startlingly gorgeous "Across The Universe", delivered absolutely straight-faced by an angelic female chorus.


That Laibach are as mad as trombones is beyond doubt. But they are never boring. Definitely worth checking out.

Tracklist:
01 Get Back 4:25
02 Two of Us 4:04
03 Dig a Pony 4:43
04 I Me Mine 4:15
05 Across the Universe 4:40
06 Dig It 1:31
07 I've Got a Feeling 3:43
08 The Long and Winding Road 4:35
09 One After 909 1:48
10 For You Blue 3:20
11 Maggie Mae 5:09

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灰野敬二+三上寛+石塚俊明=VAJRA
Keiji Haino+Mikami Kan+Toshiaki Ishizuka=VAJRA
Lable:P.S.F. Records
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