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Much about Suishou no Fune has had to do with volume, but this new set of duets adds forays into starker songwriting and a languid serenity that works to make one feel as if it were necessary to hold one's breath through the entire album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39272493285558,"sku":"","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a3890279650_10.jpg?v=1636604941"},{"product_id":"kenji-kariu-d-sekai-lp","title":"Kenji Kariu - Sekai LP","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile unaware of Kenji Kariu before hearing this record I've become a disciple of all things Bruit Direct Disques. The Paris provides a home for contemporary songcraft, stimulating soundwerks and on this occasion, delightful outsider-pop. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKenji Kariu has a distantly new take on fragile-but-friendly Japanese guitar pop with rickety rhythm box and op-shop Casio keyboard embellishments. Sekai may well be the only album with both City Pop and Sound Collage in the 'Style' section of its discogs entry. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSekai could be seen as a contemporary expansion on the recent 'Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop Electronic Minimalism \u0026amp; Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980-1988' compilation, but also sits somewhere near the realms of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Yuzo Iwata's Daylight Moon and Love Chants. Extremely intimate and nice!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e - Nic\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/938736547\u0026amp;color=ff5500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\" title=\"bruit direct disques\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ebruit direct disques\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\/kenji-kariu-star-signs\" title=\"Kenji Kariu - Star Signs\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eKenji Kariu - Star Signs\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39298713321654,"sku":"","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/br-d-36-Kenji-Kariu-Front-scaled.jpg?v=1614902133"},{"product_id":"doronco-gumo-old-punks-lp","title":"Doronco Gumo - Old Punks LP","description":"\u003cspan\u003eDoronco Gumo has played with Suishou no Fune, Keiji Haino and Les Rallizes Denudes (he's not the former bass player that hi-jacked a plane). On 'Old Punks' he's backed by members Maher Shalal Hash Baz to execute a great collection of loose and sentimental rock numbers that join the dots between John Cale, Alex Chilton, The Only Ones and the intimate airiness of Yuzo Iwata's Daylight Moon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFar from a new release, not old enough to be eulogised, but who cares, this record is hitting the spot today like nothing else!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Nic\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346700353718,"sku":"HOLY738109","price":34.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/71Dl3gUWpML._SS500.jpg?v=1615505070"},{"product_id":"mamitori-ulithi-empress-yonaguni-san-25-12-2013-lp","title":"Mamitori Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San – 25\/12\/2013 LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMamitori hides a form of twee pop unwittingly battered by no wave, and whose every chord could be a blank bullet. You could be mistaken for thinking you were hearing My Bloody Valentine pranged by the Shaggs, the Pastels bullyraged by Mars, Pere Ubu holding paws with Swell Maps. Is a new No Tokyo emerging 35 years after No New York ? This live set in front of a ghost-like public serves as a hint of this Japanese band’s profound peculiarity. “The six songs here speak to the mysticism of another Japanese ensemble with as large a reputation as a body of work, Les Rallizes Denudes, but while that group built themselves up over long tracks, Mamitori (the preferred abbreviation) confines itself mostly to 4-5 minute stretches, quickly establishing a melody and a beat, and getting colorful over top.” - Still Single \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/207440982\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\u0026amp;visual=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\" title=\"bruit direct disques\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003ebruit direct disques\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bruit-direct-disques\/ethereal-sadness-fairy-tail\" title=\"Ethereal Sadness Fairy Tail Interno Dress Cattle Mutilation られる\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\"\u003eEthereal Sadness Fairy Tail Interno Dress Cattle Mutilation られる\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39453202284726,"sku":"BRD14","price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/25122013Front-scaled.jpg?v=1616897167"},{"product_id":"tashi-dorji-john-dieterich-midden-lp","title":"Tashi Dorji \u0026 John Dieterich - Midden LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eWhile the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily navigates across such a vast terrain. In their most often observed environments (Dorji’s relentlessly frequent solo and collaborative releases, Dieterich in the untamable and uniquely enchanting Deerhoof), both artists regularly redefine both themselves and what “guitar” playing may or may not be. On “Midden”, there is communication and expression that transcends the notion that two people can simply cross paths and play guitar together. Plenty of people do this, but few intersect so naturally and comfortably in this abstract of a context. While captured in the live setting, Midden is not the result of weeks of touring, fine tuning ideas and patterns. Instead, the LP is merely a document which archives the final of three chance meetings, in which two people engage in a natural dialog that at times is jagged and jarring while at others is mesmerizing and beautiful. Unpredictable yet completely organic, such a language is a joy to hear.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Torn Light Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42222297186486,"sku":"","price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a0448072262_10.jpg?v=1683266150"},{"product_id":"kazuki-tomokawa-finally-his-first-album-lp","title":"Kazuki Tomokawa - Finally, His First Album LP","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the tender age of twenty-five, while he was working part-time at an Italian restaurant in Tokyo’s Kamata district Kazuki Tomokawa released his debut record, fittingly titled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Finally, His First Album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. While he had already penned hundreds of songs, including his first single “Try Saying You’re Alive!,” written on a long train ride past fields and rice paddies, it was this  recording that introduced  Japan to one of its most unique musicians of the postwar era. Each track, as record label exec Kiichi Takahara writes in the LP’s liner notes (here translated for the first time), is not a song but a “flesh-and-blood human being,” birthed by the singer-songwriter and the raw, guttural cries that would become a hallmark of his incomparable sound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1970s Japan was a time and place marked by a profound desire for authenticity amidst the onset of television and media saturation. Tomokawa arrived on the scene as a musician with“the personality of a hydrogen bomb,” to borrow a phrase from his frequent collaborator Toshi Ishizuka. In an unwieldy interview included here, members of the notorious leftist band \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZunō Keisatsu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Brain Police) put it bluntly: here was a man surrounded by the “disingenuous,” the “wishy-washy,” and the “superficial,” who was delivering “real life, unvarnished.” These songs are lullabies for the lost, staring not into the void but—as the fourth track declares—from inside it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinally, His First Album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the first of three Tomokawa records to be reissued by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/blank-forms-editions\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.blankforms.org\/blank-forms-editions\"\u003eBlank Forms Editions\u003c\/a\u003e in conjunction with the US release of Tomokawa’s memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTry Saying You’re Alive!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, the first-ever English translation of his writing. 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He speaks of adolescence, passing hearses, and wedding chapel cars in a poem to his younger brother, Tomoharu, and watches ice melt on the Mitane River with spring’s turn. Tomokawa’s sound is, as Kiichi Takahara would later dub it, “I-music”: revelatory and deeply intimate songs that turn to the quotidian, the domestic, and the interior. They are portraits of a man in search of meaning, who is taking stubborn control of his life. 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Recorded throughout 1987 and 1988 in both Tokyo and Paris, No Paris \/ No Harm confronts you with Junko’s extreme vocal manipulations and the squealing crunch of Jojo’s electric guitar onslaught and Toshiji Mikawa’s electronics. Emerging from The Hijohkaidan Tapes (1986) and setting up what was to come with Modern (1989), No Paris \/ No Harm documents three essential Hijokaidan members in some of their most raw, unabashed excursions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOpening the record, “Harlem” presents an intertwined merging of electric instruments and voice, all members cohesive in their abrasion. Junko’s voice embodies static, personifies distortion as it emits from a human form. “Vivre Sa Vie,” the middle chapter of No Paris \/ No Harm, takes a more subtle approach. Underneath the harsh noise, small gestures from Jojo and Mikawa bubble beneath the surface, threatening to burst out and obliterate the ear. As the track progresses, Junko’s voice takes on a similar role, her cries just submerged under the chaos. In the final track, “No Harm,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eeverything crashes to the fore, the most complete melding of Junko, Jojo, and Mikawa’s timbres up until that point on the record. 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Yes, that is it. He plays a recording of himself on the keyboard, with singing or humming sometimes and he leaves it to the \"big band\" to interpret this on the spot. Sometimes, you can make out the melody, other times it is quite obscure, as if a sort of common shyness flows out of the collected instrumentarium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd other times, well, it is a big party.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr Kudo and the group were invited to tour Europe to celebrate 20 years of the project Le Ton Mité, members of which are absorbed into the ensemble. The recording evolves from the static sound of hermetic conditions to the live concert in the later tracks. The studio here, is a trendy concert hall in Brussels Les Ateliers Claus. You hear the applause of the brave ears that weathered the ride of accidental psychedelia \u0026amp; moiré of various notes fading into and out of each other. This is only a sliver of the material from the 20 hour recording marathon documenting the new composing\/playing style of Mr Kudo \u0026amp; snippets from the last concert of the March 2018 tour. Perhaps the album should be called \"Je est un autre : Volume 1\" in a vague reference to \"My Brother The Wind\" series from Sun Ra. 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Following 2021’s Sekai, which was also released by Bruit Direct Disques, rain \/ water is a gorgeous haze of song, a modern driftwork that’s creatively rich, and full of fleeting sensation – it’s an album that captures its artist in process, moving through ideas and sounds with a deft hand. It’s also another step in a ‘career’, of sorts, that’s been continually compelling, from the experimental prog touches of Kariu’s group OWKMJ (Orewakonnamonjanai), to his first two solo albums, KK (2009) and KK2 (2011), both released on the Japanese label Manso-Sha, and soundtrack work for Sawada Thunder’s Hikari no Tabi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese twelve lush pop songs point in multiple directions, outwards to bossa nova, modern R\u0026amp;B and soul, ambient bliss-outs, city pop confections, and electronica. 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You can hear this spirited riskiness in the way Kariu garlands his songs with lovely details – see the sly harmonies and vibrant purr of keyboards in “Flower Name”, for example, elements that benefit from the support of an insistent two-note figure for guitar. “Water” has a sugar-spun fragility in its chord progressions, and guitar playing, that’s pure bossa – you can hear the spirit of Vinicius Cantuaria in the music here, or maybe Arto Lindsay’s run of nineties albums, where he enacted a rapprochement between his No Wave past and the Brazilian tapestry of his early life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"rain \/ water\" feels borne of a similar impulse, to bring together compellingly divergent aesthetics. The cherry on top, though, is Kariu’s unassuming way with melody, and the sweet cadences of his voice. The lightness of breath in Kariu’s delivery is perfect for the stylishness of these songs; it’s soft but characterful, and the melodies here crumble at the edges of Kariu’s lips. It’s a lovely album – light but never slight; breezy but with a curiousness and wisdom at its core that belies the gentle touch of these twelve delightful songs.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cbr\u003eJon Dale \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1124686645\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bandcamp.bruit-direct.org\/album\/kenji-kariu-rain-water\"\u003eKenji Kariu \"Rain \/ Water\" - 狩生健志 「雨 \/ 水」 by bruit direct disques\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Direct","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43542989177014,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a3570473513_10.jpg?v=1729049815"},{"product_id":"tashi-dorji-we-will-be-wherever-the-fires-are-lit-lp","title":"Tashi Dorji - we will be wherever the fires are lit LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour years separate the release of Stateless and we will be wherever the fires are lit. In the interim, Tashi Dorji has seldom stood still, playing and touring almost constantly, continuing to record both as a solo and in collaboration with artists including Susie Ibarra, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Bill Orcutt, Michael Zerang, Elliott Sharp, Audrey Chen, Sally Gates, Marshall Trammell, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Aaron Turner, Dave Rempis and Joe McPhee. For Tashi, the playing of this music is always political even in its most abstract iterations. In and of itself, music can’t solve political problems—but since no moment of life is without its political context, “strumming in opposition to the towers” is therefore a universal state, a freedom of expression made while doing all the other things involved with playing, maintaining a sense of lineage and documenting forward movement. we will be wherever the fires are lit was recorded over a period of a month on a Zoom recorder in a cabin behind Tashi’s home. His music, as ever, is all improvised, using different guitar preparations—tape for muting, and metal for buzz. Different tunings and techniques; inspirations from all over. Tashi’s sound is his own, but we can’t help but feel the sound of many nations, in all hemispheres, storming through these acoustic expressions. 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Even to the non-native speaker Kurachi’s vocals hold centre stage - at times enormous and thundering over urgent guitar and toms, then switching to softly spoken words amongst keys. Frequently Kurachi multiplies, whether multitracking himself or summoning voices for the characters he writes from sightings on train platforms or supermarkets. His lyrics - translated to English for both formats - are more like poetry, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethough written about the mundane they quickly become surreal, bringing the quality of dreams into the everyday. The hours spent on buses, trains or walking home towards a cheap flat - familiar to us all - are catalysts for microcosms of detail. Again, we shouldn’t be surprised - Kurachi is well known in Japan for winning the national championship of NHK's \"Poetry Boxing\" in 2002, which also might explain his amazing Discogs photo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoet, illustrator, multi-instrumentalist - Kurachi is thought of by many as a genius. He’s worked with Jim O’Rourke, Tori Kudo, Eiko Ishibashi and Taku Unami (who did the mastering on this LP). There are lines to be drawn between Kurachi and Kazuki Tomokawa or Kan Mikami, but also Francis Plagne and Fairport Convention. Ultimately though there is nothing else like it - it’s a brand of strange songcraft that’s totally captivating.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e - Bison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=869678836\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kumiokurachi.bandcamp.com\/album\/open-today\"\u003eOpen Today by Kumio Kurachi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central Bazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43681614299318,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a3730637844_10.jpg?v=1734657966"},{"product_id":"flower-travellin-band-made-in-japan-lp","title":"Flower Travellin' Band - Made In Japan LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLife Goes On Records present a reissue of the third album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, Made In Japan, originally released in 1972. 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In the twenty-odd years since, the album has found adherents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewho, like P.S.F. Records founder Hideo Ikeezumi, praised its tremendous depth and discovered that they experienced something new each time they listened to it. Listening back today, Passivité sounds timeless and, in a sense, encapsulates the concepts, feeling, and brilliance that have marked the near 50-year career of one of the key figures in Japanese underground music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassivité is an entrancingly beautiful album that draws from rock and psychedelic music, the sounds of 60’s America as well as elements of jazz, bossa nova, soul, and even electronic music. It’s an enigmatic late-night meditation that unfolds in a cool darkness pierced by scattered flashes of light and heat. 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