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PSF-126
JUNTOK KANEKO / Endless Ruins
Tokyo's OTHER black-clad guitar master has finally made a solo album is true cause for rejoicing. Kaneko is known, if at all, as leader of Kosokuya, one of the most idiosyncratic and least appreciated rock groups in Tokyo.
(Also available in CD PSFD-126.)

$35

CD Single
PSFD-M1001
Kan Mikami/VAJRA / Chiruha no atoni furu yuki no imimo shirazu
The title track was the theme song to an NHK TV program fronted by Mikami and features some of Haino's most tearily sweet guitar trilling. The second track is a new version of "Ozaki Jinja" off the first album - classic Vajra pulsing energy pulling three ways to the same effect

$9

Video (VHS)
PSFV-2
Kazuki Tomokawa & Kan Mikami / Go-En

$33

Video (VHS)
PSFV-3
Keiji Haino / Percussion Solo
Solo performances for percussion have always been at the centre of Keiji Haino's art. In them, Haino deploys a huge variety of handheld percussion, from tiny cymbals, bells and gongs, to tambourines, jagged pieces of metal and Harry Bertoia-esque specially-made resonating sculptures. These performances, legendarily intense present the crystallization of the physicality of Haino's music, his attitude to rhythm, to the persistence of sound itself. Though relatively rare now, these solo percussion concerts always have a special hushed atmosphere of concentration, silent communion, and mystery.

$33

Video (VHS)
PSFW-V-1
Chi no kioku
(Video version of the Yuji Itsumi book.)
Release Date: 7/5/2003

$18

DVD
PSFDV-1
Kazuki Tomokawa / Pistol - Shibuya Apia Live 2003

$25

DVD
PSFDV-2
FUSHITSUSHA / 1991.9.26 19:15~20:08

Keiji Haino: vocals, guitar
Yasushi Ozawa: bass
Jun Kosugi: drums
26th September 1991 saw a titanic showdown at the Shibuya La Mama club in Tokyo. Keiji Haino's tumultuous Fushitsusha brought their epochal de/re-construction of rock to ringside to tussle it out with John Zorn’s international hardcore skronk trio Pain Killer. The night was being documented for a Pain Killer live album (released as Rituals), which meant that Fushitshsha got to benefit from an unusually high-quality recording.
Previously available as a PSF video, but out of print for the last few years on that unwieldy medium, this is the document of Fushitsusha's jaw-dropping set that night ? and still the only official Fushitsusha visuals available. A digest-sized version of everything that is great about the group, somehow squeezing the Grand Canyon breadth and depth of Haino’s ambition into far shorter set than they usually play.
Raining down like manna from heaven for the converted, 53 minutes worth of prime Fushitsusha live, loud and leveling. What more do you need to know?
[NB Disk is NTSC region free, thus it may not be playable on some European players.]

$25

DVD
PSFDV-3
EXIAS-J / Live Document 2003 - 2005

Hideaki Kondo - guitar
Takuo Tanikawa - guitar, computer
Shin-ichiro Kanda - piano, analogue synthesizer
Tetsuya Miyazaki - live electronics, computer
Jun Kawasaki - contrabass
Masami Irumagawa - cello
Naoto Nishizawa - drums, percussion
"Free improvisation may have provided the original touch-paper for Exias-J's inception as a group, but by the time of the performances documented on this DVD we had gradually begun to move beyond it as a category. For instance, we began to incorporate deliberate internal structures in the form of compositional techniques such as minimalism, twelve-tone or atonalism, and we started to interrogate musical forms such as the sonata or ostinato. Or else in performance, we adopted approaches such as reliance upon a restricted number of modes, variations on a particular theme, extended instrumental technique, and a forms of expression based on (non-harmonically structured) sound images themselves. In order to construct these phenomenological relationships multiple techniques have been employed here, however they appear to be completely subordinated to receptive function of the viewer and the creative function of the musicians. I believe that this is something of which we can be justifiably proud. Since music relies upon these phenomenological relationships as its medium, I never like to make light of the methods by which modes and phenomena can be generalized, however, I have no desire to turn a method into a goal."
Kondo Hideaki
Third release on PSF by Exias-J (Experimental Improvisor's Assocation of Japan), Japan's most conceptually determined improvising collective and their first DVD. Containing three performances from Tokyo and New York, this is a challenging clash of methodologies and sonorities, hugely exciting in its electric power and formal heft.
142 minutes, region free, NTSC format.
[NB Disk is NTSC region free, thus it may not be playable on some European players.]

$25

Book
PSFB-1 (Book+CD)
"Jiyu no Ishi" (free will) by Yuji Itsumi
140 pages, edition of 500, written in Japanese
For the past ten years, Tokyo-based photographer Yuji Itsumi has taken a series of remarkably evocative B&W photos of many underground musicians for the PSF magazine G-Modern. Itsumi's intensely intimate photos capture the musicians off-stage in their everyday lives, but still manage to capture a sure sense of their music. This book compiles Itsumi's work for G-Modern, along with short interviews (in Japanese only) with each of the twenty-nine musicians featured. Those pictured include giants of the Japanese underground like Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Chie Mukai, Kan Mikami, and Masayoshi Urabe, alongside international doyens of free-playing such as Derek Bailey, Arthur Doyle, Charles Gayle, Han Bennink, and Peter Brotzmann. The book comes with a nine-track, hour long CD containing previously unreleased tracks by Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuo Imai, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Hiroshi Kawani, Chie Mukai, and Kan Mikami with Masayoshi Urabe.

$50

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LP
	PSF-126 JUNTOK KANEKO / Endless Ruins Tokyo's OTHER black-clad guitar master has finally made a solo album is true cause for rejoicing. Kaneko is known, if at all, as leader of Kosokuya, one of the most idiosyncratic and least appreciated rock groups in Tokyo. (Also available in CD PSFD-126.)	$35

CD Single
	PSFD-M1001 Kan Mikami/VAJRA / Chiruha no atoni furu yuki no imimo shirazu The title track was the theme song to an NHK TV program fronted by Mikami and features some of Haino's most tearily sweet guitar trilling. The second track is a new version of "Ozaki Jinja" off the first album - classic Vajra pulsing energy pulling three ways to the same effect	$9

Video (VHS)
	PSFV-2 Kazuki Tomokawa & Kan Mikami / Go-En	$33

Video (VHS)
	PSFV-3 Keiji Haino / Percussion Solo Solo performances for percussion have always been at the centre of Keiji Haino's art. In them, Haino deploys a huge variety of handheld percussion, from tiny cymbals, bells and gongs, to tambourines, jagged pieces of metal and Harry Bertoia-esque specially-made resonating sculptures. These performances, legendarily intense present the crystallization of the physicality of Haino's music, his attitude to rhythm, to the persistence of sound itself. Though relatively rare now, these solo percussion concerts always have a special hushed atmosphere of concentration, silent communion, and mystery.	$33

Video (VHS)
	PSFW-V-1 Chi no kioku (Video version of the Yuji Itsumi book.) Release Date: 7/5/2003	$18

DVD
	PSFDV-1 Kazuki Tomokawa / Pistol - Shibuya Apia Live 2003	$25

DVD
	PSFDV-2 FUSHITSUSHA / 1991.9.26 19:15~20:08 Keiji Haino: vocals, guitar Yasushi Ozawa: bass Jun Kosugi: drums 26th September 1991 saw a titanic showdown at the Shibuya La Mama club in Tokyo. Keiji Haino's tumultuous Fushitsusha brought their epochal de/re-construction of rock to ringside to tussle it out with John Zorn’s international hardcore skronk trio Pain Killer. The night was being documented for a Pain Killer live album (released as Rituals), which meant that Fushitshsha got to benefit from an unusually high-quality recording. Previously available as a PSF video, but out of print for the last few years on that unwieldy medium, this is the document of Fushitsusha's jaw-dropping set that night ? and still the only official Fushitsusha visuals available. A digest-sized version of everything that is great about the group, somehow squeezing the Grand Canyon breadth and depth of Haino’s ambition into far shorter set than they usually play. Raining down like manna from heaven for the converted, 53 minutes worth of prime Fushitsusha live, loud and leveling. What more do you need to know? [NB Disk is NTSC region free, thus it may not be playable on some European players.]	$25

DVD
	PSFDV-3 EXIAS-J / Live Document 2003 - 2005 Hideaki Kondo - guitar Takuo Tanikawa - guitar, computer Shin-ichiro Kanda - piano, analogue synthesizer Tetsuya Miyazaki - live electronics, computer Jun Kawasaki - contrabass Masami Irumagawa - cello Naoto Nishizawa - drums, percussion "Free improvisation may have provided the original touch-paper for Exias-J's inception as a group, but by the time of the performances documented on this DVD we had gradually begun to move beyond it as a category. For instance, we began to incorporate deliberate internal structures in the form of compositional techniques such as minimalism, twelve-tone or atonalism, and we started to interrogate musical forms such as the sonata or ostinato. Or else in performance, we adopted approaches such as reliance upon a restricted number of modes, variations on a particular theme, extended instrumental technique, and a forms of expression based on (non-harmonically structured) sound images themselves. In order to construct these phenomenological relationships multiple techniques have been employed here, however they appear to be completely subordinated to receptive function of the viewer and the creative function of the musicians. I believe that this is something of which we can be justifiably proud. Since music relies upon these phenomenological relationships as its medium, I never like to make light of the methods by which modes and phenomena can be generalized, however, I have no desire to turn a method into a goal." Kondo Hideaki Third release on PSF by Exias-J (Experimental Improvisor's Assocation of Japan), Japan's most conceptually determined improvising collective and their first DVD. Containing three performances from Tokyo and New York, this is a challenging clash of methodologies and sonorities, hugely exciting in its electric power and formal heft. 142 minutes, region free, NTSC format. [NB Disk is NTSC region free, thus it may not be playable on some European players.]	$25

Book
	PSFB-1 (Book+CD) "Jiyu no Ishi" (free will) by Yuji Itsumi 140 pages, edition of 500, written in Japanese For the past ten years, Tokyo-based photographer Yuji Itsumi has taken a series of remarkably evocative B&W photos of many underground musicians for the PSF magazine G-Modern. Itsumi's intensely intimate photos capture the musicians off-stage in their everyday lives, but still manage to capture a sure sense of their music. This book compiles Itsumi's work for G-Modern, along with short interviews (in Japanese only) with each of the twenty-nine musicians featured. Those pictured include giants of the Japanese underground like Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Chie Mukai, Kan Mikami, and Masayoshi Urabe, alongside international doyens of free-playing such as Derek Bailey, Arthur Doyle, Charles Gayle, Han Bennink, and Peter Brotzmann. The book comes with a nine-track, hour long CD containing previously unreleased tracks by Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuo Imai, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Toshiaki Ishizuka, Hiroshi Kawani, Chie Mukai, and Kan Mikami with Masayoshi Urabe.	$50

T-Shirt
	Medium in U.S. size. One size only.	$25 *including shipping