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!
Sex Pistols, UK, Punk. 70's; Book - Good Used Condition
In the 'Sex Pistols File' photographer Ray Stevenson brings together several hundred images from the group's early days. He covers several key moments from the band's history; its formation by Malcolm McClaren in 1975, the addition of Sid Vicious on bass guitar, the debut of their first album up to to the break-up and Sid's death in New York. The book was originally indended to be titled 'The Sex Pistols Scrapbook' but had to be renamed after Malcolm McLaren threatened to Sue for Stevenson's use of the colour yellow.
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
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".
Black Metal, Death Metal, Germany, Finland, Satanic; Vinyl LP
- 350gsm Gatefold Jacket With UV Gloss Varnish And Inside Flooded In Black
- 180g Heavy Black Vinyl
- 250gsm Cardboard Insert
- A2 Poster On 150gsm Art Paper
- Limited To 500 Copies
Western Decadence is characteristic, quintessential ANAL BLASPHEMY: unhinged, untamed, morbid, murky, doomed, disgusting, primordial, PRIMITIVE. It's a sound both obedient to and defiant of black metal's ugliest, most underground-entrenched traditions; not for nothing is ANAL BLASPHEMY so justly named. But in other, more telling ways, Western Decadence is a new start for the band, or at least a very new chapter. The shambling shock & awe of early albums like Bestial Black Metal Filth and Profane Fornication Ejaculation has given way to a moodier and more considered ANAL BLASPHEMY, the roots of which began to show on the relatively more varied Perversions of Satan. Here on Western Decadence, Molestor Kadotus creates a succinct song-cycle whereby pulsing, hypnotic filth gives way to messy, melancholic laments, from headbanging almost-anthems to mulching electro/ambient soundcapes, and often with the haunting organic textures he's utilized in Musta Kappeli. And fitting for the band's grandest statement yet, Western Decadence is the first ANAL BLASPHEMY album to be fully recorded in a professional studio. Witness the fall of the West and feel deep devotion to the Devil: this is Western Decadence.
Drugs, Marijuana, Hashish, Aleister Crowley, Illicit, Psychedelic; Paperback Book - 66 pages (New)
First published under the pseudonym Oliver Haddo in The Equinox, The Psychology of Hashish is an autobiographical account of Aleister Crowley's experimentation with Cannabis sativa. Crowley places his study in the context of reports on hashish by numerous authors, artists, sages and mages throughout history, from the notable to the obscure.
