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PSFD-8001
Kan Mikami / Shin He Yon / Toshi Ishitsuka / Michihiro Satoh / "Fukon"
Female Korean percussionist/vocalist Shin He Yon met Kan Mikami at a festival in Iwaki in 1997. With similar rural shamanic cultural backgrounds the two immediately hit it off, played together, and they were easily coaxed into the studio to lay down some tracks of transcendent cultural detente.

$18
PSFD-8002
Kan Mikami / Nanbu-shiki
Another staggering masterwork from Japan's king of philosopher singer-songerwriter. Includes one track with longtime live collaborator Toshi Ishitsuka on percussion.

$18
PSFD-8003
Kazuki Tomokawa / Sky Fish
On this album, Tomokawa returns to some familiar obsessions - the possibilities of the nursery rhyme form, musical settings for the poems of Japan's tragic symbolist poet Chuya Nakahara, and deceptively opaque natural imagery.

$18
PSFD-8004
Kan Mikami / 13/4,900,089,658
Mikami's tenth solo album on PSF (a new one appears every March), and originally planned as the concluding statement in a coherently and expansive ten-part rumination on contemporary Japan. Available as a single disk or as part of the commemorative box set that celebrated Mikami's 30th year as Japan's most wilfully obtuse social critic, conscience and celebrant.

$18
PSFD-8005
Kazuki Tomokawa / Akai Polyan (Red Polyanthus)
There is more truth and beauty in any one of his songs than in most singer-songwriter's entire repertoires.

$18
PSFD-8006
AIHIYO / Live
Nine tracks, including covers of a Spiders tune, The Ronettes' "Be My Baby", etc. Most staggering of all is the cover of the Stones' "Satisfaction", which neatly transforms Jagger's baby-in-a-Perspex-box mixture of rage and boredom into truly on-the-edge jumpy paranoia.

$18
PSFD-8007
Kan Mikami & Toshiaki Ishizuka / Shinshi-no-Yuuutsu
Mikami is in as fine a fettle as ever. Ishizuka is the perfect partner to Mikami's unique phrasing, all in the eternal now as straight forward momentum is fractured into a schizophrenic tumble in twenty dimensional directions at once.

$18
PSFD-8008
Kazuki Tomokawa / Elise no me
The group provide the ideal un-square settings for Tomokawas complex symbolist songs, at all times attaining a perfect marriage of acoustic density and forward lope. As an added bonus, long time admirer Keiji Haino adds some trademark abyssal guitar on two tracks.

$18
PSFD-8009
Shoji Hano & Derek Bailey / Fish
This is Bailey's first record with Japanese powerhouse drummer Shoji Hano, recorded at Moat Studios in London in June 2000. Hano is best known outside of Japan for his brief tenure as drummer in speedfreak rock band High Rise.

$18
PSFD-8010
Fushitsusha / Origin's Hesitation
The no overdubs policy remains, though both Haino and bassist Ozawa work with realtime loops. The unique dynamic hallmarks of the group are preserved, the focus on individual sounds and their interaction underlined. Attack, duration, beginnings and endings all merge into one heartrending, emotionally eternal present.

$18
PSFD-8011
High Rise / Destination - Best of
High Rise's twentieth anniversary album includes their classic PSF releases and two previously unreleased tracks: a studio version of live favourite "Ikon", and a new piece called "Heavenly Power". High Rise are the band that kick-started a label and a scene. They're the power-trio to end all power-trios.

$18
PSFD-8012
Kan Mikami / Lesbos
The 11th solo album. This time out the topics include the mystery of Michael Jordan, the rain in Rome, and cans of pineapple chunks. Just like Heraclitus's river, Mikami's world defines it eternity through constant flux.

$18
PSFD-8013
Kazuki Tomokawa / Kenshin no Ichigeki
Screaming folk-poet Tomokawa's twentieth album was inspired by and is dedicated to the memory of Kenshin Sumitaku, a young free-meter haiku poet who died from leukaemia at the age of twenty-five. Yet another genuine, humanly touching, inspiring masterpiece from one of the unsung contemporary masters.

$18
PSFD-8014
Keiji Haino / To start with, let's remove the colour!
Gorgeous new bag of home-recorded mystery from Haino. Apparently recorded alone, late at night and at minimal volume, these latest recordings tremble with the same deep-welled emotional sensitivity and sense of veiled threat that animated classics like Watashi Dake?, Affection and Era of Sad Wings.

$18
PSFD-8015
Kan Mikami / 1979
Twelfth solo album from Kan Mikami in as many years - and, seemingly, the last in this monumental series. Comes with full English translations of the lyrics and linernotes.

$18
PSFD-8016
Fushitsusha / Eien no houga saki ni te o dashitanosa
From 1978, the earliest group recordings by Fushitsusha yet to be released. A vital document for understanding the Japanese underground and the truest, most exciting rock group of the contemporary era.

$18
PSFD-8017
Keiji Haino / Hikari Yami Uchitokeaishi Konohibiki
First album of solo guitar by Keiji Haino in quite some time, but very much a departure from the mountain-levelling, continent-sundering, weather-system huge electric guitar releases of years past.
The title roughly translates as “Light darkness melting into one this vibrationE Haino advises the listener to play as loud as possible Esurely a first on an album of acoustic guitar.

$18

PSFD-8018
Keiji Haino & Michihiro Sato / Tayu tayu to tadayoitamae kono furue
Keiji Haino / acoustic guitar
Michihiro Sato / tsugaru-jamisen
Sato’s first studio meeting with Keiji Haino sees a rare melding of open minds and taut strings. Common languages are invented, experimented with and discarded at will. Haino revisits the evocative nylon-strung guitar style he first explored on Hikair yami uchitokeaish kono hibiki (PSFD-8017), laying down fields and forests of string texture, while Sato burns blazing trails of narrow-beam intensity straight through the middle of your skull.

$18

PSFD-8019
Kazuki Tomokawa / Itsuka, toku mite ita
Kazuki Tomokawa / vocal, guitar
Toshiaki Ishizuka /drums, percussion
Taro Kanai / guitar
Ayumi Matsui violin
Masato Nagahata / piano, mandlin, accordion
Hiromichi Sakamoto / violin-cello
Schone / flute
Motoharu Yoshizawa / bass
Compilation of new and previously released tracks from Kazuki Tomokawa, Japan's god of emotionally transcendent song. Tomokawa's convulsive and passionate songs have recently graced films by two of Japan's most notorious directors, legendary underground director Koji Wakamatsu (whose career dates back to the early sixties) and Takashi Miike, the current enfant terrible of weird and ultra-violent genre flicks.
Tomokawa's appearance playing himself in Miike's time-travelling samurai vengeance movie IZO in particular has stunned festival audiences the violent, cathartic and irrational beauty of his songs chimes perfectly with the film's mood.
Twelve tracks in total, including "Pistol" the amazing title-track from IZO, previously only available as part of the PSF 13 CD boxset (PSFD-134 / 146). Also includes three entirely new tracks, and three radical re-recordings.

$18

PSFD-8020
Keiji Haino / Uchu ni Karamitsuiteru Waga Itami
digital theremin, air synth, air FX, etc.
Another step into previously unexplored territory for Haino--his first ever all-electronic album.
Uchu ni karami tsuiteiru waga itami (the title means roughly 'Tangled up in the universe, my pain') sees Haino using a bewildering range of electronic instruments.

$18

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	PSFD-8001 Kan Mikami / Shin He Yon / Toshi Ishitsuka / Michihiro Satoh / "Fukon" Female Korean percussionist/vocalist Shin He Yon met Kan Mikami at a festival in Iwaki in 1997. With similar rural shamanic cultural backgrounds the two immediately hit it off, played together, and they were easily coaxed into the studio to lay down some tracks of transcendent cultural detente.	$18
	PSFD-8002 Kan Mikami / Nanbu-shiki Another staggering masterwork from Japan's king of philosopher singer-songerwriter. Includes one track with longtime live collaborator Toshi Ishitsuka on percussion.	$18
	PSFD-8003 Kazuki Tomokawa / Sky Fish On this album, Tomokawa returns to some familiar obsessions - the possibilities of the nursery rhyme form, musical settings for the poems of Japan's tragic symbolist poet Chuya Nakahara, and deceptively opaque natural imagery.	$18
	PSFD-8004 Kan Mikami / 13/4,900,089,658 Mikami's tenth solo album on PSF (a new one appears every March), and originally planned as the concluding statement in a coherently and expansive ten-part rumination on contemporary Japan. Available as a single disk or as part of the commemorative box set that celebrated Mikami's 30th year as Japan's most wilfully obtuse social critic, conscience and celebrant.	$18
	PSFD-8005 Kazuki Tomokawa / Akai Polyan (Red Polyanthus) There is more truth and beauty in any one of his songs than in most singer-songwriter's entire repertoires.	$18
	PSFD-8006 AIHIYO / Live Nine tracks, including covers of a Spiders tune, The Ronettes' "Be My Baby", etc. Most staggering of all is the cover of the Stones' "Satisfaction", which neatly transforms Jagger's baby-in-a-Perspex-box mixture of rage and boredom into truly on-the-edge jumpy paranoia.	$18
	PSFD-8007 Kan Mikami & Toshiaki Ishizuka / Shinshi-no-Yuuutsu Mikami is in as fine a fettle as ever. Ishizuka is the perfect partner to Mikami's unique phrasing, all in the eternal now as straight forward momentum is fractured into a schizophrenic tumble in twenty dimensional directions at once.	$18
	PSFD-8008 Kazuki Tomokawa / Elise no me The group provide the ideal un-square settings for Tomokawas complex symbolist songs, at all times attaining a perfect marriage of acoustic density and forward lope. As an added bonus, long time admirer Keiji Haino adds some trademark abyssal guitar on two tracks.	$18
	PSFD-8009 Shoji Hano & Derek Bailey / Fish This is Bailey's first record with Japanese powerhouse drummer Shoji Hano, recorded at Moat Studios in London in June 2000. Hano is best known outside of Japan for his brief tenure as drummer in speedfreak rock band High Rise.	$18
	PSFD-8010 Fushitsusha / Origin's Hesitation The no overdubs policy remains, though both Haino and bassist Ozawa work with realtime loops. The unique dynamic hallmarks of the group are preserved, the focus on individual sounds and their interaction underlined. Attack, duration, beginnings and endings all merge into one heartrending, emotionally eternal present.	$18
	PSFD-8011 High Rise / Destination - Best of High Rise's twentieth anniversary album includes their classic PSF releases and two previously unreleased tracks: a studio version of live favourite "Ikon", and a new piece called "Heavenly Power". High Rise are the band that kick-started a label and a scene. They're the power-trio to end all power-trios.	$18
	PSFD-8012 Kan Mikami / Lesbos The 11th solo album. This time out the topics include the mystery of Michael Jordan, the rain in Rome, and cans of pineapple chunks. Just like Heraclitus's river, Mikami's world defines it eternity through constant flux.	$18
	PSFD-8013 Kazuki Tomokawa / Kenshin no Ichigeki Screaming folk-poet Tomokawa's twentieth album was inspired by and is dedicated to the memory of Kenshin Sumitaku, a young free-meter haiku poet who died from leukaemia at the age of twenty-five. Yet another genuine, humanly touching, inspiring masterpiece from one of the unsung contemporary masters.	$18
	PSFD-8014 Keiji Haino / To start with, let's remove the colour! Gorgeous new bag of home-recorded mystery from Haino. Apparently recorded alone, late at night and at minimal volume, these latest recordings tremble with the same deep-welled emotional sensitivity and sense of veiled threat that animated classics like Watashi Dake?, Affection and Era of Sad Wings.	$18
	PSFD-8015 Kan Mikami / 1979 Twelfth solo album from Kan Mikami in as many years - and, seemingly, the last in this monumental series. Comes with full English translations of the lyrics and linernotes.	$18
	PSFD-8016 Fushitsusha / Eien no houga saki ni te o dashitanosa From 1978, the earliest group recordings by Fushitsusha yet to be released. A vital document for understanding the Japanese underground and the truest, most exciting rock group of the contemporary era.	$18
	PSFD-8017 Keiji Haino / Hikari Yami Uchitokeaishi Konohibiki First album of solo guitar by Keiji Haino in quite some time, but very much a departure from the mountain-levelling, continent-sundering, weather-system huge electric guitar releases of years past. The title roughly translates as “Light darkness melting into one this vibrationE Haino advises the listener to play as loud as possible Esurely a first on an album of acoustic guitar.	$18

	PSFD-8018 Keiji Haino & Michihiro Sato / Tayu tayu to tadayoitamae kono furue Keiji Haino / acoustic guitar Michihiro Sato / tsugaru-jamisen Sato’s first studio meeting with Keiji Haino sees a rare melding of open minds and taut strings. Common languages are invented, experimented with and discarded at will. Haino revisits the evocative nylon-strung guitar style he first explored on Hikair yami uchitokeaish kono hibiki (PSFD-8017), laying down fields and forests of string texture, while Sato burns blazing trails of narrow-beam intensity straight through the middle of your skull.	$18

	PSFD-8019 Kazuki Tomokawa / Itsuka, toku mite ita Kazuki Tomokawa / vocal, guitar Toshiaki Ishizuka /drums, percussion Taro Kanai / guitar Ayumi Matsui violin Masato Nagahata / piano, mandlin, accordion Hiromichi Sakamoto / violin-cello Schone / flute Motoharu Yoshizawa / bass Compilation of new and previously released tracks from Kazuki Tomokawa, Japan's god of emotionally transcendent song. Tomokawa's convulsive and passionate songs have recently graced films by two of Japan's most notorious directors, legendary underground director Koji Wakamatsu (whose career dates back to the early sixties) and Takashi Miike, the current enfant terrible of weird and ultra-violent genre flicks. Tomokawa's appearance playing himself in Miike's time-travelling samurai vengeance movie IZO in particular has stunned festival audiences the violent, cathartic and irrational beauty of his songs chimes perfectly with the film's mood. Twelve tracks in total, including "Pistol" the amazing title-track from IZO, previously only available as part of the PSF 13 CD boxset (PSFD-134 / 146). Also includes three entirely new tracks, and three radical re-recordings.	$18

	PSFD-8020 Keiji Haino / Uchu ni Karamitsuiteru Waga Itami digital theremin, air synth, air FX, etc. Another step into previously unexplored territory for Haino--his first ever all-electronic album. Uchu ni karami tsuiteiru waga itami (the title means roughly 'Tangled up in the universe, my pain') sees Haino using a bewildering range of electronic instruments.	$18