Takashi Inagaki

250 copies. A third, extraordinary document. Purge.xxx continues its quiet, singular excavation of the work of Japanese composer Takashi Inagaki with Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto - five soundtracks gathered for the first time, newly transferred from the original tapes, mixed and mastered, and accompanied by an original essay by Jennifer Lucy Allan. Toshio Matsumoto (1932-2017) was a foundational figure in Japanese experimental cinema - a film director, video artist, and theoretician best kno…

* Numbered + handmade in an edition of 200 copies only; 180gr vinyl in custom-made outer (sealed), containing extensive booklet with images from performance + installation + newly commissioned essay by Akihito Yasumi (Japanese original + English translation); no digital * Takashi Inagaki’s original soundtrack score for filmmaker Takashi Ito’s Japanese-language stage adaptation of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love, and its parallel video installation, The Dead Dance. Genet’s final literary work recou…

Lucky restock, sold-out at the label**numbered + handmade in an edition of 250 copies only and no re-press ever; 2x180gr vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), containing two risograph inserts featuring original writing by filmmaker Takashi Ito and composer Takashi Inagaki; additional, unreleased music contained on each accompanying CD**  Takashi Inagaki’s collaboration with the filmmaker Takashi Ito began in the late 1970s with the short film Spacy: a nightmare of the eternally rec…