Bleak Bliss: February 2017

The Cracked Mirror - Damage

Charred tumbling blast from Kazuma Kubota, who also records as Bloody Letter and Cecila and runs the Noise Ninja Records label. This tape came out in 2010 on the reliably high-quality Phage Tapes label. Go support them by buying whatever they have for sale at their shop! It's really all good.

The Cracked Mirror - Damage

Blessed Sacrifist & Cranial Drill - We Can Only Hope

Split cassette released in 2011 by the tireless champions of obscure noise at Phage Tapes, in an edition of just 50 copies.

Blessed Sacrifist & Cranial Drill - We Can Only Hope

T. Mikawa & Cracksteel - Fuck My Ass Live at Binspark

Fantastic split cassette from the legendary Toshiji Mikawa (of Incapacitants and Hijo Kaidan) and the under-rated Cracksteel, recorded live in Japan on January 8, 2006. Mikawa's set has some unexpected interludes of calm between bouts of shrieking, while Cracksteel pummels without pause. Released in 2007 by Cipher Productions in Australia.

T. Mikawa & Cracksteel - Fuck My Ass Live at Binspark

South Saturn Delta - Experience The Concreteness

An on-off live project from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna) and Nobuko Emi (the drummer in Tsurubami, The Seventh Seal, Drop Pow and Tsuru No Ko). She isn't credited on the release so I'm not sure if she is on any of these live recordings. Anyway, it's totally appropriate that they should take their name from the obscure Hendrix track. Walls of destroyed guitars and wave upon wave of synth noise and Masonna roar ... and it makes a pretty good transition point for the noise that follows ...

Four live recordings in Osaka and Tokyo from 2003-2005 delivered by the lovely people at Cold Spring in 2007.

Experience The Concreteness

Mainliner - Troop

This time it's Hajime Koizumi (former Acid Mothers and Seventh Seal drummer). Apparently, it's the "acid cool" demo mix of the Mellow Out release recorded in 1995.

C44 released on La Musica Records in 1996.

Troop

Mainliner - Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik

Back to Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata and Tatsuya Yoshida again and recorded live in 1996.

C40 released on La Musica Records in 1996.

Psychedelic Atmosphere Beatnik

Mainliner - Solid Stick Attack

This time around it's Koji Shimura behind the kit ...

CDr released on La Musica Records in 1999.

Solid Stick Attack

Mainliner - Psychedelic Polyhedron

Makoto Kawabata on guitar, Asahito Nanjo on bass and vocals and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums. How much better does it get?

Originally released as an LP on Fractal Records in 1997, this is the CD from 2004 with an additional unreleased 11 minute track.

Psychedelic Polyhedron

Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues - 3

Sprawling psychedelic glissando guitar tethered to a swamp blues rhythm section that slides into alien synth and space rock. Suits me sir!

LP released on Fractal Records in 2007 (although there was a CDr reissue that slipped out relatively unnoticed in 2014).

Big thanks again to Ivangov for both of the Diza's.

Three

Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues - Featuring Mani Neumeier

Magic Aum Gigi (aka Jérôme Genin) and Tsuchy with Mai Mai (aka Mai Xiao Guo Da Shi) and Mani Neumeier. Acidguruguru styled shaman rock.

CD released on Fractal Records in 2007.

Featuring Mani Neumeier

Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Manitatsu, Mani Neumeier & Kawabata Makoto, Zoffy, Akaten, AcidMothersGuruGuru - Guru Guru Fest 2012

Courtesy of our Belarusian division, we can now hear this little gem!

Thanks to Ivangov!

Splendor Mystic Solis - Heavy Acid Blowout Tensions Live

Asahito Nanjo, Makoto Kawabata, Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow), former Ruins bassist Sasaki Hisashi and Acid Mothers drummer Shimura Koji. Three live recordings from a North American tour in 1999. The title gives the clue to the psychedelic rock excesses that await.

LP jointly released on Galactic Zoo Disk and Eclipse Records in 2003.

Heavy Acid Blowout Tensions Live

Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'

Hiroshi Hasegawa (aka Astro), Hiroshi Higashi (Acid Mothers) and Keiichi Miyashita (who was in GodMan and Mandog). Space-psych recorded live at three Japanese venues during 2006.

CD released on the late and much lamented aRCHIVE in 2007.

Never Ending Space Trackin'

Dare Devil Band - 猪武者

Dare Devil Band were Makoto Kawabata, Atsushi Tsuyama and Shoji Hano. Whilst the latter was the drummer with High Rise, the style is more in keeping with his improvisations with Peter Brötzmann.

CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2003. There was an early edition that came with a bonus CDr with one untitled track on it. Never heard that one ... if anybody could help out etc ...

猪武者

According to Discogs, 猪武者 was recorded live at Hard Rain, Osaka on March the 25th, 2003 and at Club East, Kyoto two days later. The dates are probably the other way around ... here's the full Kyoto gig:

Live at Club East, Kyoto, 25.03.2003

Atsushi Tsuyama - Sampler Tape Cassette

Now, here's a strange thing. A collection of Atsushi Tsuyama related projects: Atsushi Tsuyama and Chikako Hidaka; Omoide Hatoba Live at Bears, Osaka; Akaten Live at Reithalle, Berne; Tairiku Otoko vs Sanmyaku Onna; Live at "Hoya in F", Tokyo; Live at Tokuzo, Nagoya and Happiness Proof. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this was just a mixtape put together by Joe Bloggs in his bedroom somewhere ... and then you get to the end of the tape and Chikako Hidaka thanks you "for hearing the end of this tape" and explains that Atsushi Tsuyama is available for tours all over the world. That sounds pretty genuine to me. It seems that this was a promotional tape sent out in 1999 ... all of the titles and personnel are listed in the files ... make of it what you will.

Sampler Tape Cassette

Silvum - Repeats

Released in 2007 by a label called Afferent, which might be Silvum's own label after RLE but I'm not certain. Edition of 30 copies.

Silvum - Repeats

Atsushi Tsuyama - 御祝

Another tour CDr in an envelope generically used for the presentation of wedding gifts. The "information" for this on discogs really couldn't be much more wrong. It was for sale in 2002 (and not "on an early 1990s Acid Mothers Temple tour" which actually predates AMT) and the track-list is accurate here (confirmed by the hand-written information in the scans). Anyway, it's really really great!

Thank you for good choice!

Atsushi Tsuyama - Do You Delay?

Whilst central to the Acid Mothers family, Atsushi Tsuyama has also made wonderful music as a member of the likes of Akaten, Nishinihon, Omoide Hatoba, Ruinzhatova and Seikazoku. This is recorded live in Nagoya in 2010 and clearly this is not a solo gig. However, there is no information on the release regarding the other people here. That's a shame as the contributors to the lovely swirling psychedelics and general lunacy deserve full credit. Quality!

Self-released CDr from 2010.

Do You Delay?

Kawabata vs. Tsuyama - Rock Is War 2000 - Freak Out Battle In Chicago 1st.Dec.2000

Two solo performances that wouldn't really fall under the "war" or "freak out" category. They are more considered and almost ambient pieces ... that is until the second half of Makoto Kawabata's set where he seems to loop his guitar sound with increasingly cacophonous results.

CDr released on Acid Mothers Temple in 2001.

Rock Is War 2000

Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Manitatsu, Acid Mothers Guru Guru - Guru Guru Fest 2010

A wonderfully warped set of recordings captured live at Chaotic Noise in 2010. There is at least one other Guru Guru Fest recording but I've never heard it (them?). If anybody could address that awful deficit, I'd really appreciate it!

CD released on Chaotic Noise Recordings in 2010.

Guru Guru Fest 2010

Guru & Zero - Makoto Mango

Lysergic delights await on a single 48 minute track that really allows the three to open up and flow.

CD jointly released on Swordfish Records and Quiet Season (a sub-label of Riot Season created just for this release) in 2004.

Makoto Mango

Guru & Zero - Beauty And The Basket Case

Tripped-out space-folk-rock from Kawabata Makoto, Cotton Casino and former Soft Machine and Gong front-man Daevid Allen.

Beauty And The Basket Case

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - 馬上中國 The Unlimited Dream Cloister

A live set recorded at “AMT Fest vol.11″ in Tokuzo, Nagoya on the 8th of December, 2012. This was originally intended to coincide with a tour of China that never actually went ahead. Instead it was sold during the Mothers' North American tour in 2014 and Makoto Kawabata's solo sojourn in Europe of the same year.

CD released on FM3 Productions Ltd in 2014.

馬上中國 The Unlimited Dream Cloister

Silvum - Suspension

A short, piano-based album released as a CDR by RLE in a larger-than-usual edition of 80 copies.

Silvum - Suspension

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Interstellar Guru And Zero

Acid Mothers as the four-piece of Hiroshi Higashi, Kawabata Makoto, Tsuyama Atsushi and Shimura Koji. Two tracks including the epic title track that comes in at 39 minutes long!

CD released Homeopathic Records in 2008.

Interstellar Guru And Zero

Silvum - Strands

Another from 2006, also released in a numbered edition of 20 copies. This one is dedicated to Toru Takemitsu.

Silvum - Strands

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Birmingham Flapper & Firkin May 29th 2001

This is a soundboard recording of the gig in the title that was then given away as a free CDr at their gig at the same venue on October 13th 2013. What a nice thing to do!

Thanks For Coming!

Silvum - Separation Relic

Self-released CDR from 2006, in a numbered edition of just 20 copies. Silvum dedicated this one to the Japanese dark psychedelic band Kousokuya.

Silvum - Separation Relic

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Live In Sweden

Recorded live at Plan B in Malmö, Sweden on October the 11th 2015 and sold as a CDr on their North American tour the following year.

Live In Sweden

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - The Psychedelic Fiction Sauce Book

Compilation purporting to consist of rare and previously unreleased versions of such AMT staples as La Nòvia, Shine On You Crazy Dynamite and Pink Lady Lemonade.

Double CD released on White Rabbit Records in 2014.

Psychedelic

Sauce

Silvum - All The Birds Are Gone

Another from Silvum's productive year of 2005, this CDR was released in a numbered edition of 50 copies and is dedicated to Nurse With Wound and The New Blockaders.

Silvum - All The Birds Are Gone

Nijiumu - Era Of Sad Wings

Nijiumu were Asahito Nanjo, Keiji Haino, Shizuo Uchida and Tetuzi Akiyama. If you don't count the live set on the Driftworks release, I'm pretty sure that this was their only official release and that Asahito had left by this point. Regardless, this is a truly cavernous and atmospheric work of wonder!

Released on P.S.F. Records in 1993.

Whilst I'm here, in case you weren't around at the time, I've re-upped both of the La Musica CDrs, the Driftworks box-set and (for good measure) the two Aihiyo releases.

悲翼紀

Silvum - When She Sleeps

An album of grey synth tones, this was Silvum's third album from 2005, released as a CDR in a numbered edition of 40 copies. For fans of Hive Mind, Darren Tate, William Basinski or Maurizio Bianchi.

Silvum - When She Sleeps

Silvum - Trauma

This album is also from 2005, released by RLE as a CDR in a numbered edition of 40 copies.

Silvum - Trauma

Silvum - Oceans

Somber and static tape loops and drones by the sadly-obscure and under-rated Nick Henry/Silvum. In the years he was active, Silvum was quite prolific, releasing several albums per year from 2005 through 2008, then his production slowed and he seems to be inactive today (though I could be mistaken about that). "Oceans" was one of the earliest albums, but his style pretty much started out fully formed. Released as a CDR in a numbered edition of 40 copies by the artist's own label Raoul's Left Ear in 2005.

Silvum - Oceans

Fushitsusha - Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself

Legendary live performance at Hōsei University, Tokyo, on April the 26th, 1996 featuring Peter Brötzmann alongside Keiji Haino, Jun Kosugi and Yasushi Ozawa.

Stunning triple CD set released on Utech Records in 2014.

Nothing Changes

No One Can Change Anything

Only You Can Change Yourself

Keiji Haino - Keeping On Breathing

Simply brilliant.

CD released on J-Factory in 1997.

息をしているまま

Keiji Haino - Kono Kehai Fujirareteru Hajimari Ni [Global Ancient Atmosphere]

In another stylistic twist, a drum kit provides the source material for the improvisation.

CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2005.

この気配　封じられてる　創まりに

Keiji Haino - Uchu Ni Karami Tsuiteiru Waga Itami

Extraterrestrial electronics released on P.S.F. Records in 2005.

宇宙に　絡みついてる　我が痛み

Keiji Haino - Yaranaiga Dekinaikotoni Natteyuku

Back into the more familiar territory of guitar and vocals ...

CD released on P.S.F. Records in 2006.

やらないが　できないことに　なってゆく

Keiji Haino - Experimental Mixture

Another DJ mix in the form of a single track that is much darker and more intricate than the material on the previous posts.

CD released on Black Smoker Records in 2013.

Experimental Mixture

Keiji Haino Experimental Mixture - The Greatest Hits Of The Music

And the prize for the most ironic title of the year goes to ...

More turntable wizardry on this CD released on Youth Inc. in 2014.

The Greatest Hits Of The Music

Doc Wor Mirran - Un(Butt)Plugged

We'll conclude this run of DWM singles (though let us know if you want more!) with this one from 1995, released by the US label Vinyl Communications.

Doc Wor Mirran - Un(Butt)Plugged

Keiji Haino - Experimental Mixture: In The World

You know that image of Keiji Haino that we all have? Dark, austere and mysterious? Yeah, that one. Well, think again. Here's the man behind the wheels of steel with a three disc DJ set. Even as I think it, it feels strange ... but it works!

Released on Youth Inc. in 2013.

In Your Ears

In Your Minds

In Your Spirits

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