Bleak Bliss

Lewd - Rivet

I was going to post the Sponge Lunch 7" and the Pincers tapes but it looks as though Jac Van Bussel has them for sale. This is the CD released on Nux Organization in 1993. If anybody has the Six Virgins Again tape I'd love to hear it...

Rivet

Lewd / Zeni Geva - Split

Side A is a live recording by Lewd (formally Incubus) who were Hans Jacobs on vocals and guitar, Jac Van Bussel (aka DMDN, Jacinthebox and former THU20 member) on bass and Paul Rabelink on drums. They were unfortunately short-lived. Imagine a strangled Godflesh. There you go ... really pretty great. The Zeni side is a live recording featuring the classic line-up of Kazuyuki Kishino, Mitsuru Tabata and Eito Noro with Yasuko (?) as a second drummer. Zeni Geva. Live. With two drummers? Damn!

LP released on Supreme Tool Supplies in 1992.

Lewd / Zeni Geva

Zeni Geva - Distorted Live

A relatively short blast of live recordings but there is no information about where or when these were recorded. C28 released on Supreme Tool Supplies in 1992.

Distorted Live

Zeni Geva - Maximum Love + Fuck

This is the same line up as the previous post. I'm fairly sure that these are the same versions of the songs that appeared on the Maximum Money Monster CD the following year but in a different track order. However, there is a much more raw feel to the vinyl that makes this a different listen entirely.

LP released on Nux Organization in 1989.

Maximum Love + Fuck

Zeni Geva - Live On Suicide

This time it's a stripped down trio with Mitsuru Tabata joining KK on guitar with Ikuo Taketani remaining behind the kit.

C50 released on Nux Organization in 1989.

Live On Suicide

Zeni Geva - How To Kill

Kazuyuki Kishino takes on the vocals, guitar and bass, Ikuo Taketani handles the drums, second guitar is taken on by Fumiyoshi Suzuki (aka N.P) with additional vocals added by Elle (aka Achy and who was in Criminäl Party and LSD).

LP released on Nux Organization in 1987.

How To Kill

Zeni Geva - Skullfuck Live

This time Asami (?) replaces Bunsho Nishikawa on bass for two live recordings ...

C42 released on Nux Organization in 1988.

Skullfuck Live

Zeni Geva - Vast Impotentz

Kazuyuki Kishino on vocals and guitar, Fumiyoshi Suzuki (former collaborator with Juntaro Yamanouchi as The Gerogerigegege) on guitar, Bunsho Nishikawa on bass and Ikuo Taketani (early member of Boredoms and Hanatarash) on drums.

C60 released on Nux Organization in 1986.

Vast Impotentz

Kazuyuki K.Null with Fred Frith, Guy Lohnes, Ichiro Agata, Jim O'Rourke - Guitar Organism

Six collaborations with Kazuyuki Kishino. The track with Fred Frith is the one that appears on the earlier tape but there is an 18 minute meeting with Jim O'Rourke, one with Guy Lohnes (who I know nothing about) and three appropriately frenetic ventures with Ichiro Agata (guitarist with the impeccable Melt-Banana).

CD released on Nux Organization in 1996.

Guitar Organism

Null & Fred Frith - Null & Fred Frith

Side A is (a perhaps unlikely) collaboration recorded live at a gig in Tokyo in 1990 and the reverse is a solo composition from Kazuyuki Kishino recorded live in his own studio in the same year.

C56 released on Nux Organization in 1991.

Null & Fred Frith

Various - Hard Drugs

You have to fear for the meat in the sandwich on this one. You get two short tracks from Koma Storatos (?) and Controlled Bleeding surrounded by long-form pieces by Null, Incapacitants and Fumiyoshi Suzuki's N.P.

C46 released on Nux Organization in 1986.

Hard Drugs

Tibeta Ubik - 2

Tibeta Ubik was an apparently short-lived example of the early collaborations between Kazuyuki Kishino and Masami Akita during the early Eighties.

At such a distance, the history of Japanese tapes is opaque to say the very least ... this is the second of their tapes and I'm not aware of any others surfacing (and I've been searching for at least a decade).

C60 released on ZSF Produkt in 1983.

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