Ché-SHIZU - 約束はできない (I Can't Promise)

 

Debut LP by Chie Mukai's astounding acid/psych/folk/post-punk, first released on LP in 1984 and reissued on CD by Alchemy in 2001, though it might have fit right into what Rough Trade were doing as the same time. Mukai's kokyu rules this album, a sound not typically (ever?) heard in music like this. She's joined by the legendary Tori Kudo (Noise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz) on guitar and piano and Takuya Nishimura (Miminokoto) plays bass. 

I Can't Promise