Reissues
Dedicated to You ...
The album opens on a conga-driven groovy track that gets its inspiration between the three horn players, but in the background, Keith Tippett's piano is the one thing that makes this piece so rollicking. Followed up by the tough to grasp Thoughts To Geoff, a 10-mins corker that often veers dissonant and improvisational, which strangely enough becomes more fluid and melodic as it unravels. Even young Gary Boyle (out of auger's trinity) manages to follow this difficult track, which had to faded ou…
Odds and Ends
* long out of print, few copies back in stock * Akio Suzuki has been making earthy yet ethereal sounds for over four decades now, all quietly emanating from the Japanese countryside. Born in 1941, he's made outdoor sound the focus of his career, constructing installations that transcend space and time, turning the outside world into a lucid daydream. In 1997, Suzuki analyzed the French town Enghien-Les-Bains, precisely mapping out (with footsteps) areas where echoes were most resonant. He built …
An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
Making up 1 part of 4 to his ‘Pedlar’ boxset, ‘An Air Swept Clean of All Distance’ was recorded in 2014 at Blank Studios, Newcastle, and exec produced by folk chief Richard Dawson, and adorned by a continuing series of artwork by Anna Peaker. It skips back along the timeline to what sounds like happy times, where Davies’ playing fizzes with typically inventive, optimistic, and timeless beauty, which, if you shut your eyes and try a little, could almost hail from any point in the past half millen…
Wound Response
Another piece of the puzzle to his 4-part ‘Pedlar’ boxset, this one was thrown down in 2011 at Newcastle’s legendary Morden Tower, a C.13th, grade-listed turret on the West Walls of the city’s ancient defences against curious Mackems and Durham scunners, that was also previously and notably site of seminal recordings by The New Blockaders, a.o. In that vein, Davies gets raw to the bone in ‘Wound Response’, using Lap harp fed thru transducer, read by contact microphone, and pushed to seething lim…
Who Knew That So Many Blues...
A singular record, measured with a mastery of self and patience that’s utterly arresting in its stoic elegance and sound sensitivity. Keiji Haino plays Gamelan...
Lungs
With the LP Dregs in 2018, the Capers sound palette was expanded considerably. On Lungs, recorded not long after Dregs, the sound palette was instead kept at a minimum, and the composition simple, restrained and monotonous. Sparse, ever-sinking, rough, repetitive and patterned noise. For heads into early Zone Nord and Vårtgård. Previously released as a C30 in 2019 by Canadian label Freedom Club, with one of the tracks omitted to better fit the cassette format. Lungs is now available in its origi…
Unauthorized Fatal Operation
Recorded live at UFO Club in Kōenji, Tokyo, on January 30, 1999. Incapacitants in their finest capacity, blending harsh electronic psychedelia, mayhemic screech and visceral ecstasy. Previously released by OR in 1999 on CDR, now available for posterity on CD in digipak. Also included in this reissue is a 22 minute live document, recorded at Shinsaibashi Club Quattro on February 10, 2001.
Womankind
** Compilation of the two Womankind cassettes released on Survivalist in 2010 and 2012. Remastered in an edition of 200 copies ** A new compilation featuring the two Womankind tapes by The Rita released on Survivalist in 2010 & 2012. Remastered by Grant Richardson and co-released with Self Abuse Records.
Swingers Get Killed
** Remastered by Grant Richardson. Edition of 200 CDs in digipak covers ** Reissue of the classic The Rita's album released on Solipsism in 1998. Featuring new artwork and co-released with Self Abuse Records. A true noise classic.
Sielun Veljet
** Edition of 300 ** A celebratory, expanded reissue of the 1983 debut album Sielun Veljet. Originally printed on three LP sides, the fourth side of the album features only the song Valssi, previously heard on the B-side of the single, and a previously unreleased early live version of Taas hauk kasvaa (Again the hair grows), found in the band's archives and only later released on the studio album. The package comes with a 12-page accompanying booklet containing a history and photographic materia…
Horoscope
** Edition of 500 ** Horoscope is an Occult Jazz masterpiece from 1973, never before reissued on vinyl. In 1967, Matti “Rag” Paananen decided to compose his own vision of the Western astrological signs. Each one has its own composition on the 12-song theme album that was originally released in 1973. For the compositions he studied every astrological sign and made his own interpretation of how it would sound as music. Although the compositions were already made in 1967, they weren’t recorded unti…
Jappa: The Complete Jazz at the Polytechnicum Recordings 1967-1968
** Edition of 500 ** Svart Mondo presents Jappa: The Complete Jazz at the Polytechnicum Recordings 1967-1968 by Eero Koivistoinen with friends. By early 1960’s, jazz in its mainstream form had become the standard dance music for the student parties in high schools and several student union clubrooms in Helsinki. The Polytech union even organized matinée dances for high school students on Sundays. The change in the musical preference of young people’s dance music occurred with the arrival of Brit…
Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara
** Original Compilation, Numbered ** This compilation was originally released by BLUE-ist in 1993. Release title: "Jirai Wo Fundara Sayounara" (Step On A Mine And It's Goodbye).
Tracklist :Dr. Numa – TV-J; Harpy – A Sante Sate; 愛と誠 – 気狂い（キチガイ; 大陸男対山脈女 – King Of Cocation; Yellow Cab – 6-101093; 木のぼり猫 – サンデー・ホーム; Shepherd Moon – 白昼の追跡者; Colloid – Invalid; Blue-Ist – ドキュメンタリストに死を; Diesel Guitars – Grind Master II; ハニー山本とポルカキングス – たそがれの新潟スタシオン; Zsa Zsa Gabour – Infra Rouge.
Skull
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Skull by Zyklon B. Zombies. Artwork – Kouji Ochiai, Guitar [Noise], Vocals – 1104, Guitar, Bass – オーマチ, Violin, Synthesizer, Voice – タネ.
呪術装置
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents 呪術装置 by 恐怖新聞. Words and Music by Proletariat Honma.
Materialism Rock
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents Materialism Rock by Deisel Guitars. This is the first release by the duo. Electric Guitar – Ogawa.S, Noseyama.Y.
29.1.1991 Live in “Woody”
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Vanilla Records presents 29.1.1991 Live In “Woody” by 愛と誠 (Love And Sincerity). Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – 鈴木敬, Drums, Percussion – 伊藤拓也, Fretless Bass – 水澤秀彦, Guitar – 能勢山愛, Keyboards – 神田聡 (tracce: A1, A3, A4, A5), Tuba – 高橋良行, Violin – 神田聡 (tracce: A2, A4), Vocals – 能勢山愛 (tracce: A3), 伊藤拓也 (tracce: A2, A4, A5), 神田聡 (tracce: A1), Voice [詩の朗読] – 塚田雅也 (tracce: B).
Morphine Nocturne
** Original Single Sided, Numbered ** Valinna Records presents Morphine Nocturne by Solmania. Live Recording 1991. Remixed at Works Fatagaga, Mar.1992. Guitar [Customized 8-strings], Effects, Voice – Masahiko Ohno. Producer, Recorded By, Composed By, Design [Sleeve] – Solmania.
Extreme Gospel Nights
**Clear cassette case, 4-panel J-card stamped with the label info on the inner side. ** Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan. The group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa, a bank employee who then became a deputy general manager of one of the largest securities brokers in Japan, later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with government office worker Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional me…