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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.
---SOLD OUT---

LP
PSFSALP-01
Six Organs of Admittance & AZUL split LP

---SOLD OUT---

$18 + shipping

LP
PSFK-001-2
Kim Doo Soo / Ten Days Butterfly (2LP)
Available again!
Kim Doo Soo - guitar, vocals
Kim Doo Soo is the deepest and most introspective of Korea's acid folk singers. Many are the legends that cling to his songs Epolitical oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a ten-year period of mountain seclusionEDespite having been active since the mid eighties and having released four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only became aware of him through his tracks on the recent Damon & Naomi compilation, International Sad Hits.
On Ten Days Butterfly, his fifth album, he mines productive veins of profound melancholy, animistic nature, and unfathomable, hermetic affection. The whole is couched in a veil of the most gorgeous still melodicism, Kim's vocals and guitar shaded with subtle accordion, violin,

$46

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
SOLD OUT

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 Zornfs 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 Hainofs 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

DVD
PSFDV-4
Maher Shalal Hash Baz with Masami Shinoda / Koshi kudake no inu

Guitar, vocals, organ, drums, trumpet-Tori Kudo
Alto sax, flute-Masami Shinoda
Euphonium, ocarina-Hiro Nakazaki
Bass-Hirofumi Mitani
Drums-Kanji Nakao
Guitar, bass-Takuya Nishimura
Enticing archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo.
The visuals provide a rare and valuable opportunity to pick apart the working methods of one of the Japanese undergroundfs most truly original and agile thinkers, Tori Kudo. In Maher Shalal Hash Baz he took the heterophonic voicings, the deliberately fluctuating rhythmic mis-steps and the non-unison unison so characteristic of Japanese traditional music and re-applied them to idiot savant mini-hymns arranged for electric guitar, euphonium, ocarina and organ. Itfs a music that exists in a unique world of its own, alternately donning and shedding the armour of rock and jazz.
Another major draw is the presence of the late Masami Shinoda on alto sax. Shinoda was an important, though largely unsung, figure in the history of the Tokyo underground during the eighties and nineties, showing up in all manner of groups from punk iconoclasts Jagatara and Pungo, to his own experiments with chindon marching advertising bands. He spent a few years in Maher in the eighties and this DVD captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music.
24 tracks, 75 minutes.

$25

DVD
PSFDV-1001
Kosokuya / Live at Shinjuku JAM, 2006 (DVD)

Released: November 21, 2008

$20

DVD
PSFDV-1002
High Rise / Live 1986

First High Rise DVD! Featuring the classic line-up of Munehiro Narita (gtr), Asahito Nanjo (bs), and Yuro Ujiie (ds).

$20

DVD
PSFDV-1003
Keiji Haino, Makoto Kawabata, Tastuya Yoshida / Live at Mission's

An hour's worth of sharply photographed alternately dense, brutal, coruscating and beautiful interplay from three of the hardest hitters in the Japanese underground, with the interplay between Haino'scalding, molten darkness and Kawabata's crunch and ripple particularly invigorating.
NB For those confused by the title, the trio's previous release on Magaibutsu was entitled Ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one come to overlap). This one is Ichi to ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one and one come to overlap). Just so you knowc
Fifty-nine minutes. Region-free NTSC DVD.

$20

DVD
PSFDV-1004
Shizuka / Owarino nai yume (DVD)

Guitar, vocals -- Shizuka
Guitar - Maki Miura
Bass - Kazuhide Yamaji
Drums - Katsumi Honjoh
Visual tribute to Shizuka, one of the most distinctive psychedelic voices in the Tokyo underground, who tragically passed away on January 31st this year.
This DVD captures the last ever performance by her group, recorded live at ShowBoat in Tokyo on December 30, 2008. As ever, the focus is upon Shizukafs delicate, uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing which meld with the overwhelmingly emotive white-hot nebulae of ex-Fushitsusha axeman Maki Miurafs guitar. Together the narcotic voice and the guitar peak and churn in perfectly weightless filigreed forms of light, darkness, cosmic cold and invisible motion. At their best, the Shizuka group were one of the distinctively original voices in the Japanese psych scene.
Ten tracks, 74 minutes. NTSC region-free DVD. Limited edition of 500.

$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

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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. ---SOLD OUT---

LP
	PSFSALP-01 Six Organs of Admittance & AZUL split LP ---SOLD OUT---	$18 + shipping

LP
	PSFK-001-2 Kim Doo Soo / Ten Days Butterfly (2LP) Available again! Kim Doo Soo - guitar, vocals Kim Doo Soo is the deepest and most introspective of Korea's acid folk singers. Many are the legends that cling to his songs Epolitical oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a ten-year period of mountain seclusionEDespite having been active since the mid eighties and having released four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only became aware of him through his tracks on the recent Damon & Naomi compilation, International Sad Hits. On Ten Days Butterfly, his fifth album, he mines productive veins of profound melancholy, animistic nature, and unfathomable, hermetic affection. The whole is couched in a veil of the most gorgeous still melodicism, Kim's vocals and guitar shaded with subtle accordion, violin,	$46

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-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

DVD
	PSFDV-4 Maher Shalal Hash Baz with Masami Shinoda / Koshi kudake no inu Guitar, vocals, organ, drums, trumpet-Tori Kudo Alto sax, flute-Masami Shinoda Euphonium, ocarina-Hiro Nakazaki Bass-Hirofumi Mitani Drums-Kanji Nakao Guitar, bass-Takuya Nishimura Enticing archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo. The visuals provide a rare and valuable opportunity to pick apart the working methods of one of the Japanese undergroundfs most truly original and agile thinkers, Tori Kudo. In Maher Shalal Hash Baz he took the heterophonic voicings, the deliberately fluctuating rhythmic mis-steps and the non-unison unison so characteristic of Japanese traditional music and re-applied them to idiot savant mini-hymns arranged for electric guitar, euphonium, ocarina and organ. Itfs a music that exists in a unique world of its own, alternately donning and shedding the armour of rock and jazz. Another major draw is the presence of the late Masami Shinoda on alto sax. Shinoda was an important, though largely unsung, figure in the history of the Tokyo underground during the eighties and nineties, showing up in all manner of groups from punk iconoclasts Jagatara and Pungo, to his own experiments with chindon marching advertising bands. He spent a few years in Maher in the eighties and this DVD captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music. 24 tracks, 75 minutes.	$25

DVD
	PSFDV-1001 Kosokuya / Live at Shinjuku JAM, 2006 (DVD) Released: November 21, 2008	$20

DVD
	PSFDV-1002 High Rise / Live 1986 First High Rise DVD! Featuring the classic line-up of Munehiro Narita (gtr), Asahito Nanjo (bs), and Yuro Ujiie (ds).	$20

DVD
	PSFDV-1003 Keiji Haino, Makoto Kawabata, Tastuya Yoshida / Live at Mission's An hour's worth of sharply photographed alternately dense, brutal, coruscating and beautiful interplay from three of the hardest hitters in the Japanese underground, with the interplay between Haino'scalding, molten darkness and Kawabata's crunch and ripple particularly invigorating. NB For those confused by the title, the trio's previous release on Magaibutsu was entitled Ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one come to overlap). This one is Ichi to ichi to ichi ga kasanatte shimaumade (Until one and one and one come to overlap). Just so you knowc Fifty-nine minutes. Region-free NTSC DVD.	$20

DVD
	PSFDV-1004 Shizuka / Owarino nai yume (DVD) Guitar, vocals -- Shizuka Guitar - Maki Miura Bass - Kazuhide Yamaji Drums - Katsumi Honjoh Visual tribute to Shizuka, one of the most distinctive psychedelic voices in the Tokyo underground, who tragically passed away on January 31st this year. This DVD captures the last ever performance by her group, recorded live at ShowBoat in Tokyo on December 30, 2008. As ever, the focus is upon Shizukafs delicate, uncanny vocals and tremulous sense of timing which meld with the overwhelmingly emotive white-hot nebulae of ex-Fushitsusha axeman Maki Miurafs guitar. Together the narcotic voice and the guitar peak and churn in perfectly weightless filigreed forms of light, darkness, cosmic cold and invisible motion. At their best, the Shizuka group were one of the distinctively original voices in the Japanese psych scene. Ten tracks, 74 minutes. NTSC region-free DVD. Limited edition of 500.	$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