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PSFD-147
Masayoshi Urabe / Ware wa seidai no kyojyo zo
Latest masterpiece of purely rock 'n' roll flesh-breathing, recorded live and relentless in Japan and Belgium, by this generation's most radical alto terrorist.
alto saxophone, metal joints, chains, harmonica, electric guitar

$18

PSFD-148
Dare Devil Band / Inomusha
Comes in a gorgeous mini-LP style gatefold jacket with English liner notes by Hano. The group will be commemorating this release with three dates in Osaka (Hard Rain), Nagoya (Tokuzo), and Tokyo (Super Deluxe) on September 9th, 10th and 11th.

$18

PSFD-149
Hiroshi Na, Yokai Takahashi, Toshiaki Ishizuka / Jokers
Hiroshi Na: vocals, guitar, organ, chorus Yohkai Takahashi: bass, chorus Toshi Ishizuka: drums, percussion, chorus
Accelerated senility, inspired lunacy, and grotesque rock-pranks from a trio of Japanese underground veterans who should really know "better". An indescribably freaky but endearingly unaffected universe, where village idiot vocalizations happily rub up against stop-start rhythmic morse code and some very wild and fuzzy guitar soloing. Adult rock from a group who never grew up.

$18
PSFD-150
Kyoaku no Intension / Astral Projection (Live recording)
Munehiro Narita: guitar
Shoji Hano: drums
On their second album for PSF, Narita and Hano are caught live in Tokyo a mere three months ago. Hano is always inventive around the kit, but he knows that crazed flail is just as valid in certain contexts as textural subtlety. Narita too was never one for treating the guitar as an ambient paintbrush, and his soloing here is as splattered and nerve-shreddingly exciting as ever.

$18

PSFD-151
Makoto Kawabata & Jean-Francois Pauvros / Venus
Second duo outing (following Extreme-Onction on Fractal) for a sympathetically resonating pair of cross-culturally twinned Franco-Japanese souls.
Caught together two years ago in Paris, it is clear that Kawabata and Pauvros breathe very much the same air. An air dense with tobacco smoke, red wine fumes, and the alluring perfume of beautiful women. Bowed guitars, communal psychedelic geography, heavily quivering clouds of harmonics, deep drones, and that unmistakeable miasma of unwashed rock spirit in telepathically free motions.

$18

PSFD-152
Kousokuya / Live Gyakuryu Kokuu
Jutok Kaneko guitar, vocals
Mick bass, vocals
Ikuro Takahashi drums
These newly uncovered live recordings date back to 1991, the year that the group’s debut album was released. Two long tracks of grinding, soaring blackhole sonics that chart the empty gulfs of tension-space like no one save Fushitsusha. Don’t pass up this chance to catch a barely acknowledged group-mind at a rarely glimpsed peak of staggering beauty and dynamic force.

$18

PSFD-153
V.A. / Undecided
Artists included:
1. Keiji Haino (hurdy-gurdy,etc.)
2. Kazuo Imai (guitar)
3. Junichiro Okuchi (piano)
4. Michihiro Sato (tsugaru-syamisen)
5. Yoshihide Otomo (turntable)
6. Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax)
Compilation containing six lengthy solo tracks by some of the most fascinating improvising musicians currently active in Japan. The CD documents a series of lecture-concerts, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music, which took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus in Tokyo.

$18

PSFD-154
EXIAS-J electric conception / Balance of Chaos
High-octane, electrically compelling improvisations from Tokyo’s most consistently thrilling free-thinking collective, recorded live in NYC last year. Exias-J mesh the open-ear group think of European free improv with the spectral sonorities of 20th century art music, and dump a big seething bucket of Takayanagi feedback and rockist excitement over the top. NYC audiences lapped it up like slaughterhouse juice.

$18

PSFD-155
Kazuo Imai Solo Works / Far and Wee
Kazuo Imai / acoustic guitar
"far and wee", only Imai's second solo release (following "How will we change?", PSFD-70), sees him setting aside the electric strurm und drang in favour of the limitations of a nylon-strung acoustic guitar. In Imai's hands though, the instrument is opened up in an utterly thrilling fashion, as he agilely traverses clumped string thickets, high tension slide motion and yawning acoustic caverns with a jaw-dropping array of extended techniques. There's a density of conception and creativity on display here that is simply jaw-dropping.

$18

PSFD-156
Kazuo Imai, Shuichi Chino / 001111
Shuichi Chino / piano
Kazuo Imai / guitar
Pianist Shuichi Chino's lengthy career is more convoluted, with early stints in groups like Wha-ha-ha and the Downtown Boogie Woogie Band, followed by theatre and soundtrack work, and a towering heap of sessions with improvisers like Butch Morris, and Kazuhisa Uchihashi.
001111 is a reissue of a minimally distributed private cdr, documenting Chino and Imai's acoustic duo meeting at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, on 11 November 2001.

$18

PSFD-157
Go Hirano / Corridor of Daylights
---SOLD OUT---
Go Hirano: piano, pianica, glockenspiel, accordion, windchimes, thumb piano, percussion, voice, etc.
Hirano is known as a sometime White Heaven collaborator, renowned expert on Canadian psychedelia and acid folk, and ultra-sensitive sound artist. His previous two albums on PSF have wound lo-fi wisps of fragile piano melody and bell chime around nagging, sometimes subtly unsettling field recording techniques.
Corridor of Daylights resurrects the absolutely exquisite instrumental palette of his second, Reflection of Dreams (PSFD-71). It is a dreamy walk along insubstantial, lysergic paths where all-too breakable souls breathe shallowly and insects hum in sympathetic resonance. An almost flawless album of touching late-night psychedelics.

$18

PSFD-158
Kaoru Abe / Winter 1972
Long-awaited official reissue of the rarest of all recordings by mercurial, live fast and die young alto hero Kaoru Abe.
Originally released sometime in 1973 or 1974 on the Sound Works label out of Osaka, this was a bootleg LP of Abe in full-flowing solo action. The records came in a plain white sleeve, the label makes no mention of Abe's name, and they came with a very high price tag for the time. Needless to say, this has since become a laughably rare record, unseen by even the most dedicated of Abe collectors.
Rarity aside, this is an utterly thrilling missive from Abe's most uncompromising and satisfying period. As yet untrammelled by self-abuse, his utterly distinctive voice on alto rings swift, clear and true, scattering diamond shards of light in its wake. Stunningly concentrated and sure-footed it needs to be heard.

$18

PSFD-159
VA / Tokyo Flashback vol.5
Artists included:
1. Aural Fit
2. White Heaven
3. Keiji Haino
4. Kyoaku no Intention
5. Kabemimi
6. Suisho no fune
7. Hisato Higuchi
8. Tsuru no ko
9. Overhang Party
10. Marble Sheep

$18

PSFD-160
VA / PSF & Alchemy 20th Anniversary Live
[Sep. 8, 2004 at Hatsudai Doors]
1. Kan Mikami & Jo Jo Hiroshige
2. Exias-J
3. Kazuo Imai & Incapacitants
4. Marble Sheep
[Sep. 29, 2004 at Nishiazabu Super Delux]
7. Keiji Haino & Munehiro Narita
8. L & Friends
9. Masayoshi Urabe & Junko
10. Go Hirano & Takashi Ueno

$18

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	PSFD-147 Masayoshi Urabe / Ware wa seidai no kyojyo zo Latest masterpiece of purely rock 'n' roll flesh-breathing, recorded live and relentless in Japan and Belgium, by this generation's most radical alto terrorist. alto saxophone, metal joints, chains, harmonica, electric guitar	$18

	PSFD-148 Dare Devil Band / Inomusha Comes in a gorgeous mini-LP style gatefold jacket with English liner notes by Hano. The group will be commemorating this release with three dates in Osaka (Hard Rain), Nagoya (Tokuzo), and Tokyo (Super Deluxe) on September 9th, 10th and 11th.	$18
	PSFD-149 Hiroshi Na, Yokai Takahashi, Toshiaki Ishizuka / Jokers Hiroshi Na: vocals, guitar, organ, chorus Yohkai Takahashi: bass, chorus Toshi Ishizuka: drums, percussion, chorus Accelerated senility, inspired lunacy, and grotesque rock-pranks from a trio of Japanese underground veterans who should really know "better". An indescribably freaky but endearingly unaffected universe, where village idiot vocalizations happily rub up against stop-start rhythmic morse code and some very wild and fuzzy guitar soloing. Adult rock from a group who never grew up.	$18
	PSFD-150 Kyoaku no Intension / Astral Projection (Live recording) Munehiro Narita: guitar Shoji Hano: drums On their second album for PSF, Narita and Hano are caught live in Tokyo a mere three months ago. Hano is always inventive around the kit, but he knows that crazed flail is just as valid in certain contexts as textural subtlety. Narita too was never one for treating the guitar as an ambient paintbrush, and his soloing here is as splattered and nerve-shreddingly exciting as ever.	$18

	PSFD-151 Makoto Kawabata & Jean-Francois Pauvros / Venus Second duo outing (following Extreme-Onction on Fractal) for a sympathetically resonating pair of cross-culturally twinned Franco-Japanese souls. Caught together two years ago in Paris, it is clear that Kawabata and Pauvros breathe very much the same air. An air dense with tobacco smoke, red wine fumes, and the alluring perfume of beautiful women. Bowed guitars, communal psychedelic geography, heavily quivering clouds of harmonics, deep drones, and that unmistakeable miasma of unwashed rock spirit in telepathically free motions.	$18

	PSFD-152 Kousokuya / Live Gyakuryu Kokuu Jutok Kaneko guitar, vocals Mick bass, vocals Ikuro Takahashi drums These newly uncovered live recordings date back to 1991, the year that the group’s debut album was released. Two long tracks of grinding, soaring blackhole sonics that chart the empty gulfs of tension-space like no one save Fushitsusha. Don’t pass up this chance to catch a barely acknowledged group-mind at a rarely glimpsed peak of staggering beauty and dynamic force.	$18

	PSFD-153 V.A. / Undecided Artists included: 1. Keiji Haino (hurdy-gurdy,etc.) 2. Kazuo Imai (guitar) 3. Junichiro Okuchi (piano) 4. Michihiro Sato (tsugaru-syamisen) 5. Yoshihide Otomo (turntable) 6. Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax) Compilation containing six lengthy solo tracks by some of the most fascinating improvising musicians currently active in Japan. The CD documents a series of lecture-concerts, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music, which took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus in Tokyo.	$18

	PSFD-154 EXIAS-J electric conception / Balance of Chaos High-octane, electrically compelling improvisations from Tokyo’s most consistently thrilling free-thinking collective, recorded live in NYC last year. Exias-J mesh the open-ear group think of European free improv with the spectral sonorities of 20th century art music, and dump a big seething bucket of Takayanagi feedback and rockist excitement over the top. NYC audiences lapped it up like slaughterhouse juice.	$18

	PSFD-155 Kazuo Imai Solo Works / Far and Wee Kazuo Imai / acoustic guitar "far and wee", only Imai's second solo release (following "How will we change?", PSFD-70), sees him setting aside the electric strurm und drang in favour of the limitations of a nylon-strung acoustic guitar. In Imai's hands though, the instrument is opened up in an utterly thrilling fashion, as he agilely traverses clumped string thickets, high tension slide motion and yawning acoustic caverns with a jaw-dropping array of extended techniques. There's a density of conception and creativity on display here that is simply jaw-dropping.	$18

	PSFD-156 Kazuo Imai, Shuichi Chino / 001111 Shuichi Chino / piano Kazuo Imai / guitar Pianist Shuichi Chino's lengthy career is more convoluted, with early stints in groups like Wha-ha-ha and the Downtown Boogie Woogie Band, followed by theatre and soundtrack work, and a towering heap of sessions with improvisers like Butch Morris, and Kazuhisa Uchihashi. 001111 is a reissue of a minimally distributed private cdr, documenting Chino and Imai's acoustic duo meeting at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, on 11 November 2001.	$18

	PSFD-157 Go Hirano / Corridor of Daylights ---SOLD OUT--- Go Hirano: piano, pianica, glockenspiel, accordion, windchimes, thumb piano, percussion, voice, etc. Hirano is known as a sometime White Heaven collaborator, renowned expert on Canadian psychedelia and acid folk, and ultra-sensitive sound artist. His previous two albums on PSF have wound lo-fi wisps of fragile piano melody and bell chime around nagging, sometimes subtly unsettling field recording techniques. Corridor of Daylights resurrects the absolutely exquisite instrumental palette of his second, Reflection of Dreams (PSFD-71). It is a dreamy walk along insubstantial, lysergic paths where all-too breakable souls breathe shallowly and insects hum in sympathetic resonance. An almost flawless album of touching late-night psychedelics.	$18

	PSFD-158 Kaoru Abe / Winter 1972 Long-awaited official reissue of the rarest of all recordings by mercurial, live fast and die young alto hero Kaoru Abe. Originally released sometime in 1973 or 1974 on the Sound Works label out of Osaka, this was a bootleg LP of Abe in full-flowing solo action. The records came in a plain white sleeve, the label makes no mention of Abe's name, and they came with a very high price tag for the time. Needless to say, this has since become a laughably rare record, unseen by even the most dedicated of Abe collectors. Rarity aside, this is an utterly thrilling missive from Abe's most uncompromising and satisfying period. As yet untrammelled by self-abuse, his utterly distinctive voice on alto rings swift, clear and true, scattering diamond shards of light in its wake. Stunningly concentrated and sure-footed it needs to be heard.	$18

	PSFD-159 VA / Tokyo Flashback vol.5 Artists included: 1. Aural Fit 2. White Heaven 3. Keiji Haino 4. Kyoaku no Intention 5. Kabemimi 6. Suisho no fune 7. Hisato Higuchi 8. Tsuru no ko 9. Overhang Party 10. Marble Sheep	$18

	PSFD-160 VA / PSF & Alchemy 20th Anniversary Live [Sep. 8, 2004 at Hatsudai Doors] 1. Kan Mikami & Jo Jo Hiroshige 2. Exias-J 3. Kazuo Imai & Incapacitants 4. Marble Sheep [Sep. 29, 2004 at Nishiazabu Super Delux] 7. Keiji Haino & Munehiro Narita 8. L & Friends 9. Masayoshi Urabe & Junko 10. Go Hirano & Takashi Ueno	$18