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PSFD-8021
Keiji Haino / Konokehai fujirareteru hajimarini
Release Date: 8/25/2005
Rhythm, duration and silence lie at the foundation of all of Haino's music. After a clutch of documents of his hair-raising solo performances for both acoustic and electric percussion, this latest album presents Haino's first recorded outing behind a regular drumkit. Haino has long desired to release a solo drum album, and he has been playing a regular kit occasionally live for several decades now.
Global Ancient Atmosphere (the alternative Japanese title means gThese signs, a sealed beginningh) contains nine tracks that showcase an austere yet thrilling investigation of attack and decay on nothing less than the molecular level. As inimitable, and as life-affirming as ever.

$18

PSFD-8022
Kazuki Tomokawa / Live 2005 Osaka Banana Hall
Release Date: 12/21/2005
Kazuki Tomokawa's gigs are now a lot less frequent than they used to be, and his August 2005 Osaka date was his first in Kansai for quite some time. But accompanied by his long-time trio of Toshi Ishizuka on percussion and Masato Nagahata on piano, this was, in Tomokawa's own estimation, the best gig that this trio has ever played. It was far too good a performance to be left to fading memories, and Tomokawa himself talked PSF into releasing it. Sixteen tracks of his patented soul-folk, emotionally charged and devastating as all hell.

$18

PSFD-8023
SANJAH / musen/izu

Kan Mikami: vocals, guitar
Masayoshi Urabe: alto, harmonica, bass blockfloten, accordion, piccolo, chains
Toshi Ishizuka: drums, percussion
Ultra-heavy first album by new PSF super group, SANJA, consisting of gravel 'n' glass voiced crooner Kan Mikami, the scene's heaviest tub thumper Toshi Ishizuka, and alto terrorist and veritable rock'n' roll breather Masayoshi Urabe.
The three first played together at a concert to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of PSF Records last year, and the intensity of the heat they generated has already become the stuff of Tokyo underground legend. The trio were quickly hustled into a studio to record their first album and the results are now available for the listening pleasure of all of you who couldn't make the gig.
There's a purity of improvised one-mind destruction on display here that is humbling to witness. All three are recently playing at unprecedented heights - Mikami's vocals and Urabe's alto carve great mercury swathes through the moist air, while Ishizuka deep-shifts tectonic plates beneath their feet. Veteran Mikami watchers are in for a treat of their own, as the master revisits "Karasu" from his debut album for the first time in 35 years.

$18

PSFD-8024
Keiji Haino/ Yaranai ga dekinai ni natte yuku

Keiji Haino - guitar, vocals
Following Keiji Haino's recent experiments with acoustic guitar, solo theremin and electronics, and percussion, this is his first guitar and vocal album in a couple of years.
Emotionally devastating, gorgeously intense free-floating atmospherics that hark back to the folk-ed out genius of Affection (PSFD-23), with a caustic blending of the layered, late-night guitar extrapolations of First Let's Remove the Colour (PSFD-8014).
As masterfully singular as ever.

$18

ISKRA-001/PSFD-8025
Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit / Shinshoku (Eclipse)

Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Kenji Mori: alto sax, flute, recorder
Nobuyoshi Ino: bass
Hiroshi Yamazaki: drums, percussion
Long-awaited reissue of a true masterpiece of Japanese free improvisation! Mastered from the rediscovered master tapes!
Recorded in May 1975, less than a month after the legendarily intense April is the Cruellest Month, Eclipse has always been the rarest and most mysterious of the Takayanagi and New Direction records. With April is... due to come out on ESP Disk (the release was scuppered when the label folded), Iskra the small label who were putting out Eclipse decided to reduce their pressing to just 100 copies. The original master tapes then vanished, and original copies of the LP began to change hands for huge sums on the collectors' market.
Eclipse sees the same group that recorded April isEand the two volumes of Axis playing at a dizzying peak of telepathic empathy. Grimly ratcheted tension, whooping freedom, slash and burn explosions, and the unmistakeable hovering, molten whine of Takayanagi’s guitarESimply put a classic, classic record that needs to be heard by anyone with an ear for freedom sounds.

$18

PSFD-8026
Kan Mikami / Barking Practice /// White Lines

Mikami Kan- vocals, guitar
Shin Heyon- komungo, puk, vocals
Sato Yukie- guitar, electronics, etc.
Kanryu: Debut Live in Korea 2006 sees Mikami reunited with the masterful Korean komungo player and vocalist Shin Heyon, who played together him on the Fukon group release (PSFD-8001). Eight years on that epochal cross-cultural meeting, Mikami journeyed to Seoul for two nights of concerts. Shin's stringed komungo brings a thick and knotted presence to the overall sound, while Seoul-resident Japanese musician Sato Yukie tosses in swirling metallic blats of electronics and guitar. There's a gorgeous languorous, slow-motion flow to the proceedings as Mikami revisits classics from the full span of his back catalogue, including a spine-tingling version of "Kid with a gun", his once banned ode to teen murderer turned death-row poet Nagayama Norio. Limited edition of 1000 in gatefold digipack.

$18

PSFD-8027
Kan Mikami / Juw

Latest in PSF's popular long-running series of solo releases by Kan Mikami. It's another coruscating slab of truly individualist dada-folk-blues, obliquely twisted songcraft that refuses to pander to the banal realities of contemporary society. For those that choose to partake in its bounty, there's richness aplenty here - the utter devastation and the unbearable ecstasy of the quotidian, transmitted just through six strings and the sandpaper rasp of Kan's vocal chords.

$18

PSFD-8028
Kazuki Tomokawa / Blue water, red water

Vocals, Guitar-Kazuki Tomokawa
Drums, Percussion-Toshiaki Ishizuka
Piano, mandolin, accordion-Masato Nagahata
Guitar-Taro Kanai
Violin-Ayumi Matsui
Tuba, Recorder-Takero Sekijima
Cello-Hiromichi Sakamoto
Latest album of devastating emotional transcendence from the Japanese underground's most lyrical singer-songwriter. Full of classic, richly textured songs of love, loss and stunned acquiescence to the wonders of the world. Alongside Tomokawa's regular collaborators Toshiaki Ishizuka and Masato Nagahata, the expanded group also includes Compostela-veteran Takero Sekijima on tuba and recorder, and improv-legend Hiromichi Sakamoto on cello.
Includes Tomokawa's ending theme song for director Rokuro Mochizuki's "Johnen EJo no Ai" Ea retelling of the Abe Sada story.
Booklet includes lyrics in Japanese and English.

$18

PSFD-8029
Keiji Haino / Koitsukara usetaitameno hakarigoto

New solo hurdy-gurdy disk -- the first solo Haino release in over two years!
Third album of devastating solo electric hurdy-gurdy for Haino, following on from The 21st Century Hard-Y-Guide-Y Man (PSFD-68, 1996) on PSF, and Even Now, Still I Think (Tokuma, 1998). The hand-cranked medieval instrument provides the perfect tool for Haino to display his genre-collapsing originality, allowing multiple dimensions of rhythm, noise, drone, harmony and melody to co-exist, majicked from the invisible interstices of the ancient past and modernity, the individual and the volk mindc
Fully immersive, properly psychedelic, truly original.
Five tracks, 66 minutes. Includes English liner notes by Biba Kopf.

$18

PSFD-8030
Kan Mikami / -1

$18

PSFD-8031
Kazuki Tomokawa / A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado

Vocals, Guitar: Kazuki Tomokawa
Celebrating 35 years of vagabond soul by one of Japan's most distinctive and original folk voices. A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado is Tomokawa's first completely solo album in fifteen years and a full-voiced return to form after his recent illness.

$18

PSFD-8032
Kim Doo Soo / The Evening River (2CD)

Long awaited second release on PSF by dream-weaving Korean folk singer, Kim Doo Soo. The album features beautifully restrained new recordings of Kim Doo Soofs most classic songs - a highly personal selection, made by Kim himself.
The discovery of Kim Doo Soo outside Korea, through the Damon & Naomi compiled International Sad Hits and then on his first new album in five years, Ten Days Butterfly (PSFD-175), was one of the more gratifying moments of the last decade. Here was an entirely unknown voice and a poetic sensibility that is tender, richly melodic, agonizingly soulful, and undeniably human.
These re-recordings of some of Kimfs most striking songs from his previous five albums focus on the hypnotic patterns of his acoustic guitar and voice, with some subtle tonal shading from percussion, brass, synth, accordion and cello. The result is a lulling, deeply flowing whole, ripe with the subtle and seductive currents of the evening river of the title.
Includes a bonus three track CD. Fourteen tracks in total. Gatefold papersleeve. Booklet includes lyrics in Korean, Japanese and English.

$20

PSFD-8034
Kan Mikami / Yakichi

Guitar, vocals -- Kan Mikami
Seven tracks of twisted enka blues, from the immortal Kan Mikami, Japanfs king of the surrealist aside and situationist duckwalk.
These latest seven missives from Mikamifs febrile imagination sketch out a concern with the passing of time, with the inexorable processes of aging, and the losses and gains of Japanfs modernity. Present and correct are the masterfs unique sense of expanding and contracting rhythm, his trademark jaggedly beautiful riffing, and that glorious, honeyed howl of a voice. Making a special guest appearance this time round is Korean folk singer Kim Doo Soo, contributing spectral blues harp on one track.
Seven tracks, 32 minutes. Booklet includes lyrics in English and Japanese.

$18

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	PSFD-8021 Keiji Haino / Konokehai fujirareteru hajimarini Release Date: 8/25/2005 Rhythm, duration and silence lie at the foundation of all of Haino's music. After a clutch of documents of his hair-raising solo performances for both acoustic and electric percussion, this latest album presents Haino's first recorded outing behind a regular drumkit. Haino has long desired to release a solo drum album, and he has been playing a regular kit occasionally live for several decades now. Global Ancient Atmosphere (the alternative Japanese title means gThese signs, a sealed beginningh) contains nine tracks that showcase an austere yet thrilling investigation of attack and decay on nothing less than the molecular level. As inimitable, and as life-affirming as ever.	$18

	PSFD-8022 Kazuki Tomokawa / Live 2005 Osaka Banana Hall Release Date: 12/21/2005 Kazuki Tomokawa's gigs are now a lot less frequent than they used to be, and his August 2005 Osaka date was his first in Kansai for quite some time. But accompanied by his long-time trio of Toshi Ishizuka on percussion and Masato Nagahata on piano, this was, in Tomokawa's own estimation, the best gig that this trio has ever played. It was far too good a performance to be left to fading memories, and Tomokawa himself talked PSF into releasing it. Sixteen tracks of his patented soul-folk, emotionally charged and devastating as all hell.	$18

	PSFD-8023 SANJAH / musen/izu Kan Mikami: vocals, guitar Masayoshi Urabe: alto, harmonica, bass blockfloten, accordion, piccolo, chains Toshi Ishizuka: drums, percussion Ultra-heavy first album by new PSF super group, SANJA, consisting of gravel 'n' glass voiced crooner Kan Mikami, the scene's heaviest tub thumper Toshi Ishizuka, and alto terrorist and veritable rock'n' roll breather Masayoshi Urabe. The three first played together at a concert to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of PSF Records last year, and the intensity of the heat they generated has already become the stuff of Tokyo underground legend. The trio were quickly hustled into a studio to record their first album and the results are now available for the listening pleasure of all of you who couldn't make the gig. There's a purity of improvised one-mind destruction on display here that is humbling to witness. All three are recently playing at unprecedented heights - Mikami's vocals and Urabe's alto carve great mercury swathes through the moist air, while Ishizuka deep-shifts tectonic plates beneath their feet. Veteran Mikami watchers are in for a treat of their own, as the master revisits "Karasu" from his debut album for the first time in 35 years.	$18

	PSFD-8024 Keiji Haino/ Yaranai ga dekinai ni natte yuku Keiji Haino - guitar, vocals Following Keiji Haino's recent experiments with acoustic guitar, solo theremin and electronics, and percussion, this is his first guitar and vocal album in a couple of years. Emotionally devastating, gorgeously intense free-floating atmospherics that hark back to the folk-ed out genius of Affection (PSFD-23), with a caustic blending of the layered, late-night guitar extrapolations of First Let's Remove the Colour (PSFD-8014). As masterfully singular as ever.	$18

	ISKRA-001/PSFD-8025 Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit / Shinshoku (Eclipse) Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar Kenji Mori: alto sax, flute, recorder Nobuyoshi Ino: bass Hiroshi Yamazaki: drums, percussion Long-awaited reissue of a true masterpiece of Japanese free improvisation! Mastered from the rediscovered master tapes! Recorded in May 1975, less than a month after the legendarily intense April is the Cruellest Month, Eclipse has always been the rarest and most mysterious of the Takayanagi and New Direction records. With April is... due to come out on ESP Disk (the release was scuppered when the label folded), Iskra the small label who were putting out Eclipse decided to reduce their pressing to just 100 copies. The original master tapes then vanished, and original copies of the LP began to change hands for huge sums on the collectors' market. Eclipse sees the same group that recorded April isEand the two volumes of Axis playing at a dizzying peak of telepathic empathy. Grimly ratcheted tension, whooping freedom, slash and burn explosions, and the unmistakeable hovering, molten whine of Takayanagi’s guitarESimply put a classic, classic record that needs to be heard by anyone with an ear for freedom sounds.	$18

	PSFD-8026 Kan Mikami / Barking Practice /// White Lines Mikami Kan- vocals, guitar Shin Heyon- komungo, puk, vocals Sato Yukie- guitar, electronics, etc. Kanryu: Debut Live in Korea 2006 sees Mikami reunited with the masterful Korean komungo player and vocalist Shin Heyon, who played together him on the Fukon group release (PSFD-8001). Eight years on that epochal cross-cultural meeting, Mikami journeyed to Seoul for two nights of concerts. Shin's stringed komungo brings a thick and knotted presence to the overall sound, while Seoul-resident Japanese musician Sato Yukie tosses in swirling metallic blats of electronics and guitar. There's a gorgeous languorous, slow-motion flow to the proceedings as Mikami revisits classics from the full span of his back catalogue, including a spine-tingling version of "Kid with a gun", his once banned ode to teen murderer turned death-row poet Nagayama Norio. Limited edition of 1000 in gatefold digipack.	$18

	PSFD-8027 Kan Mikami / Juw Latest in PSF's popular long-running series of solo releases by Kan Mikami. It's another coruscating slab of truly individualist dada-folk-blues, obliquely twisted songcraft that refuses to pander to the banal realities of contemporary society. For those that choose to partake in its bounty, there's richness aplenty here - the utter devastation and the unbearable ecstasy of the quotidian, transmitted just through six strings and the sandpaper rasp of Kan's vocal chords.	$18

	PSFD-8028 Kazuki Tomokawa / Blue water, red water Vocals, Guitar-Kazuki Tomokawa Drums, Percussion-Toshiaki Ishizuka Piano, mandolin, accordion-Masato Nagahata Guitar-Taro Kanai Violin-Ayumi Matsui Tuba, Recorder-Takero Sekijima Cello-Hiromichi Sakamoto Latest album of devastating emotional transcendence from the Japanese underground's most lyrical singer-songwriter. Full of classic, richly textured songs of love, loss and stunned acquiescence to the wonders of the world. Alongside Tomokawa's regular collaborators Toshiaki Ishizuka and Masato Nagahata, the expanded group also includes Compostela-veteran Takero Sekijima on tuba and recorder, and improv-legend Hiromichi Sakamoto on cello. Includes Tomokawa's ending theme song for director Rokuro Mochizuki's "Johnen EJo no Ai" Ea retelling of the Abe Sada story. Booklet includes lyrics in Japanese and English.	$18

	PSFD-8029 Keiji Haino / Koitsukara usetaitameno hakarigoto New solo hurdy-gurdy disk -- the first solo Haino release in over two years! Third album of devastating solo electric hurdy-gurdy for Haino, following on from The 21st Century Hard-Y-Guide-Y Man (PSFD-68, 1996) on PSF, and Even Now, Still I Think (Tokuma, 1998). The hand-cranked medieval instrument provides the perfect tool for Haino to display his genre-collapsing originality, allowing multiple dimensions of rhythm, noise, drone, harmony and melody to co-exist, majicked from the invisible interstices of the ancient past and modernity, the individual and the volk mindc Fully immersive, properly psychedelic, truly original. Five tracks, 66 minutes. Includes English liner notes by Biba Kopf.	$18

	PSFD-8030 Kan Mikami / -1	$18

	PSFD-8031 Kazuki Tomokawa / A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado Vocals, Guitar: Kazuki Tomokawa Celebrating 35 years of vagabond soul by one of Japan's most distinctive and original folk voices. A Bumpkin's Empty Bravado is Tomokawa's first completely solo album in fifteen years and a full-voiced return to form after his recent illness.	$18

	PSFD-8032 Kim Doo Soo / The Evening River (2CD) Long awaited second release on PSF by dream-weaving Korean folk singer, Kim Doo Soo. The album features beautifully restrained new recordings of Kim Doo Soofs most classic songs - a highly personal selection, made by Kim himself. The discovery of Kim Doo Soo outside Korea, through the Damon & Naomi compiled International Sad Hits and then on his first new album in five years, Ten Days Butterfly (PSFD-175), was one of the more gratifying moments of the last decade. Here was an entirely unknown voice and a poetic sensibility that is tender, richly melodic, agonizingly soulful, and undeniably human. These re-recordings of some of Kimfs most striking songs from his previous five albums focus on the hypnotic patterns of his acoustic guitar and voice, with some subtle tonal shading from percussion, brass, synth, accordion and cello. The result is a lulling, deeply flowing whole, ripe with the subtle and seductive currents of the evening river of the title. Includes a bonus three track CD. Fourteen tracks in total. Gatefold papersleeve. Booklet includes lyrics in Korean, Japanese and English.	$20

	PSFD-8034 Kan Mikami / Yakichi Guitar, vocals -- Kan Mikami Seven tracks of twisted enka blues, from the immortal Kan Mikami, Japanfs king of the surrealist aside and situationist duckwalk. These latest seven missives from Mikamifs febrile imagination sketch out a concern with the passing of time, with the inexorable processes of aging, and the losses and gains of Japanfs modernity. Present and correct are the masterfs unique sense of expanding and contracting rhythm, his trademark jaggedly beautiful riffing, and that glorious, honeyed howl of a voice. Making a special guest appearance this time round is Korean folk singer Kim Doo Soo, contributing spectral blues harp on one track. Seven tracks, 32 minutes. Booklet includes lyrics in English and Japanese.	$18