Minimal, Japanese, Experimental, Improvised, Improv, Avant Garde; Taku Sugimoto, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, CD
Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetzui Akiyama are two of the leading lights of the “new wave” of Japanese improvisers advancing their cause under the collective banner of “Onkyo”, which can loosely be interpreted to mean “less is more”. They perform together regularly at home, as well as in Europe. They have also collaborated with artists as diverse as Taku Sugimoto, Otomo Yoshihide, Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, and Jerome Noetinger. Tetuzi is best known as a guitarist, having released albums solo as well as in groups with Taku Sugimoto and others mentioned above. His style is loosely blues-based, but stripped back to a very minimal and deconstructed base of isolated sonic elements. “Toshi”, as he is universally known, while starting as a guitarist, has evolved a unique style of sound performance based on the use of a small sound desk with no signal inputs. Instead this “no-input mixing board” as he calls it, is set up to loop outputs to inputs, running in outboard effects to produce a delicately constructed web of feedback tones and other “accidental” sonic raw materials. Much of the running in international improvisation is being made by Japanese artists, witness 2001”s highly successful “Japanorama” CD 'Meeting at Off-Site vol 1', on Reset [2002].
Free Improvisation, Improv, Free Jazz, Jazz, Experimental; 2 x CD (2000)
This is a double CD recorded immediately after the jazz festival in Appleby in July 1999 where the musicians performed both as a quartet and in separate combinations: the first disc recorded at the Gateway Studio; and the second, live at the Vortex - both in London. After Appleby is social engagement by four minds of equal stature sharing an equal commitment in an unequal world. Years of engagement by these musicians have inspired a massive vocabulary with an astonishing library of sound resources. If you are suspicious of music that defies description, then venture no further. These musicians reinvent their instruments, from primal bursts to a thrilling harnessing of sound converted into a viable music so exciting and different that it virtually defies categorisation.... (extracted from the extensive liner notes of Steve Kulak) The Parker/Guy/Lytton combination has been called arguably the greatest active improvising ensemble (Down Beat); and the incomparable Marilyn Crispell adds yet another distinctive voice to the trio.
The total times are: Disc 1 - 64'08 and Disc 2 - 68'02
Free, Improv, Jazz, Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton, Free Improvisation; CD (1998)
Performing live at London's The Vortex in 1996, two extended exuberant improvisations from the trio of Evan Parker on tenor & soprano sax, Barry Guy on double bass, and Paul Lytton on drums & percussion, perhaps the most ferocious and relaxed example of this trio on disc.
Outsider, Left Field, Experimental, Talentless, Various Artists, Compilation; 2 x CD
Outsider Musicians have come inside for a celebration of their art. This is a two CD compilation, SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z: THE CURIOUS UNIVERSE OF OUTSIDER MUSIC .The CDs feature songs from the uninhibited coyote howls of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy to the arrested-adolescent passion of Daniel Johnston; the flea-market cowboy soul of Buddy Max, to Joe Meek's ultra-rare, wobbly "Telstar" vocal demo; the Shaggs aboriginal backwoods rock to Lucia Pamela's vertigo-bent outer space lunacy -- the SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z CDs are unforgettable romps through music too strange for radio but too fascinating to ignore...
Nihilist Spasm Band, Noise, Abstract, Avant Garde, Experimental, Free Improv, Power Electronics; CD
Features: U can unlearn guitar, V/VM, Alan Licht, Smell & Quim, Carlos Giffoni, Reynols, Cock ESP, Wolf Eyes, Hijokaidan and much more playing covers of freeform noise unit Nihilist Spasm Band......Amazing!
Japan, Indy, Pop, Punk, Rock, Signed; CD (2014)
Australian release of Shonen Knife's 2014 CD long-player "Overdrive" - Signed by all 3 members on front cover. EX used condition
Australian, Death Metal, Old School, Metal, Melbourne, Rare; CD (1995)
1995 (Thrust 018) original CD release of Melbourne Death Metal originals ABRAMELIN's self titled LP.
VG Used condition
Unofficial, Bootleg, Live, Pixies, Frank Black, Kim Deal, RARE!; CD (1992) Excellent
Professionally produced unofficial bootleg CD recording of complete concert recorded live at the Jenkins Arena, Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, February 29, 1992. Pixies supported U2, it was the first concert of the "Zoo TV Tour".
The Residents, Experimental, Avant Garde, Rock, Art; CD (1988) Used
God in 3 Persons was The Residents' first recording project which was designed from the beginning for CD. An LP album has to have a natural break in the middle of the music, with a strong beginning and ending for each side. CDs, which play straight through from beginning to end without a break, allow for a different organizational form, since works are only limited by the 74-minute total playing time. God in 3 Persons was also the last album that the band recorded using tape, the final project edited with razors and splicing tape. God in 3 Persons was also the first album the band did which was not published by Ralph Records; instead, it was released by RykoDisc.
Melbourne, Improv, Jazz, Abstract, Free Jazz, Experimental, Dr Jims, Electronic; CD (2003)
“This recording by Melbourne trio Western Grey (Philip Samartzis, Sean Baxter and David Brown), explores the liminal zone where our sonic expectations are problematised from the very start. Composed of pure acoustic fragments and improvisatory approaches which are strikingly juxtaposed with pure electronic abstraction and digital manipulation, questions of genre and musicianship, spontaneity and deliberation, the origins and intents of the noises we are hearing, are held in sharp contrast. Yet, though the divergent aural and performative qualities are obvious, there is, at the same time, a complimentarity of noise, an empathy of texture at odds with the alterity of each body of information. The four pieces comprising Glacial Erratic are exemplary of the inevitable fusion of electroacoustic composition and free improvisation, of pre and post-meditation in sound design and the embrace of chance, aleatory and chaos in performance.” – Sean Baxter
Tony Buck, Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Sheridan, Kato Hideki, The Necks, Japanoise, Experimental, Noise, Rock, Industrial, Improv; CD (Used)
Peril (1992-1996) was a Japanese/Australian underground industrial band, founded by drummer Tony Buck (The Necks) during his stay in Japan. The music of the collective was mostly improvised, with Buck's drum-triggered sampled rhythmic base complimented by the turntable & guitar from Japanese experimental turntablist Otomo Yoshihide with rock/improv elements from Michael Sheridan (Dumb and the Ugly) (guitar) and Kato Hideki (Ground Zero)(bass). The group recorded and performed internationally throughout Europe and Asia.
