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"Ryuhyo" – Sailing Ice
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Craftman Records presents "Ryuhyo" – Sailing Ice by Motohiko Hino Quartet. Art Direction – 西沢勉, Bass – 井野信義, Drums – 日野 元彦, Engineer [Assistant] – Shigeru Kadowaki, Toshiaki Kanazawa, Engineer [Recording] – Masayoshi Okawa, Executive-Producer – A. Fukutomi, K. Saga, Guitar – 渡辺香津美, Liner Notes – 森田俊一, 藤井健夫, Photography By [Cover] –佐々木政勝, Producer – 藤井 武, Tenor Saxophone – 山口真文, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – 清水靖晃.
2nd Album
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Craftman Records presents 2nd Album by Kosuke Mine Quintet. Recorded November 29 and December 2, 1970. Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine, Art Direction – Ben Nishizawa, Bass – Yoshio Suzuki, Drums – Hiroshi Murakami, Engineer [Assistant] – Kenji Kurota, Engineer [Recording] – Yoshihiko Kannari, Guitar – Yoshiaki Masuo, Liner Notes – Shoichi Yui, Producer – Takeshi "Tee" Fujii, Producer [Associate] – Kazumitsu Saga, Trombone – Takashi Imai.
Blues For Tee
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Craftman Records presents Blues For Tee by Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio. Recorded live in concert on December 25, 1974. Art Direction – Ben Nishizawa, Bass – Akira Daiyoshi, Drums – Toshio Osumi, Mixed By – Yoshihiko Kannari, Photography By – Akira Aimi, Piano – Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Producer – Takeshi Fujii.
Green Caterpillar
Pianist Imada Masaru was 42 years old when he recorded this album in 1975. His adventurous spirit led him to use the electric piano for the first time in a recording, and thanks to his musicianship, he made it sound like he'd been playing the instrument for years. The program opens with the title track, a sophisticated urban funk. Guitarist Kazumi Watanabe plays a big role here. It is followed by a more intricate, fusion-like "Straight Flash." The all-original-composition program switches gear o…
Blow Up
A fantastic electric album from one of the most unique bassists of the 70s – Blow Up is one of the most sough-after titles from the acclaimed Three Blind Mice catalog. Isao Suzuki's Blow-Up is virtuosity and class all rolled up into one. A great combination of upbeat blues and mellow grooves! The album was awarded "Jazz of Japan" Award and the Jazz Disc Award of "Swing Journal" in 1973."This adventurous set finds Suzuki and his band mates (drummer George Otsuka, pianist Kunihiko Sugano, and bass…
AR
**50 copies** Sound recording of the March for Peace from Perugia to Assisi and back, 2017.
Next Time Could Be Your Last Time
Gondwana Records present ‘Next Time Could Be Your Last Time’ – the debut album by Forgiveness, AKA Jack Wyllie, JQ and Richard Pike. Described as “not really jazz, not really new age, not really ambient or electronica”, instead they welcome you into a synaesthesia-inducing technicolour fantasy, full of wondrous emotive beauty. This genesis began with the sharing of music, burgeoning friendships, and the mutually-inspirational benefit of the collective power of a group dynamic, with each spurring…
The Danser Revolution
Earlier in 2017 Everland Jazz presented a reissue of Danser's Inferno's - Creation One, originally released in 1973. Now we present the even more obscure release The Danser Revolution by The John Danser Octet, almost impossible to find in original format. The ultra rare funky jazz LP from 1977 contains the killer funky fusion tune "Cool" known for being sampled by Gangstarr, Blackalicious and J.Dilla. At age 14, John Danser emigrated from London and established himself in New York City where he …
Motel a Tre Stelle
A surprising new work (and a new artistic path) for Fabio Orsi. Motel a Tre Stelle follows paths traced by the legendary cosmic couriers, weaving magnificent sound carpets that recall the most evocative Ambient music of which Orsi is a master. This new work represents a new beginning... We still don't know the final destination, but it's so exciting to accompany Fabio along this way. The CD is released in an edition of 300 copies in ecopack wallet; the cover and artwork feature pictures taken by…
Stockholm Connection
A unique 3CD-box from Umlaut Records putting in attention the musical collaborations between two of Sweden’s most headstrong musicians: the pioneers Bengt “Frippe” Nordström and Sven-Åke Johansson. The previously non-released music was recorded in Stockholm 1970, 1977 and 1982 and portrait the musicians both in format of a trio, including legendary pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, and in a large orchestra led by Johansson including, at the time, young groundbreaking jazz musicians from Swede…
Síndrome De Abstinencia
Recorded on 24/07/2021 in Buenos Aires, Argentine. In Argentina, improvised music or free music (here, choose the label you like) is not something new. As early as the mid-sixties, Juan Carlos Cáceres, fine arts student, pianist and trombonist left his sound experiments recorded. Thus the scene, fed by musicians who come from free improvisation, jazz and even rock, has developed strongly in the last twenty years. In this context, Osvaldo La Porta, Darío Dolci and Omar Grandoso are, at the same …
Sorgente
Sorgente is the first solo album by the Italian Maestro Devid Ciampalini. Recorded in a period of isolation spent in Garfagnana, a geographical and historical area in Tuscany, between the Apuan Alps and the main chain of the Tuscan Emilian Apennines, Sorgente reflects the nature of his genesis and the shapeless character of the watercourses which inspired it. On the footsteps of itineraries traveled in youth, Devid opens a dialogue between the natural elements of these unspoiled landscapes and t…
Free Flight
Double CD Edition. Recorded at Ronnie Scott's, London, on either the 17th or 18th October 1972. Double CD in digipak with 24 page booklet containing previously unseen images and an extensive essay researched and written by Simon Spillett. From the Ron Mathewson tape archive. This previously unissued live recording features one of the final appearances by the ‘classic’ Tubby Hayes Quartet featuring pianist Mick Pyne, bassist Ron Mathewson (who made the original recording) and drummer Tony Levin, …
Station '70
Craftman presents a live concert by New Direction. The album includes 2 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, and Kaoru Abe - Alto Saxophone. The first album track: Thursday / Gradually Projection, was recorded on June 18, 1970 at Tokyo. The second one: Jha / Mass Projection was recorded on May or June, 1970 at Tokyo.
Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese jazz / free improvisational musician. He was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1950s. Was one of the earliest no…
Truancy
Jim Denley and Dutch musician Cor Fuhler first met at the Taklos Festival in Switzerland in the early 1990s and Cor's frequent visits to Australia over the years gave them the opportunity to occasionally play. In 2012 Cor moved to Sydney, allowing them to ramp up the duo - this is their first release together. Over 7 weeks at the end of 2013 they recorded weekly in Cor's backyard studio, eventually choosing take 9 and 12, titling them Skive and Wag. Their imaginative preparations and inventions …
Mother of Pearl
Edition of 400 copies on CD inside Gatefold CD wallet with gold foil printing, including 12-page booklet and 30 mins of additional music ('Red Sky' EP), available only on the CD. * Mother of Pearl is the first duo album from composers Sarah Davachi and Sean McCann. Two people, a couple, recording together at home. A slow, autumnal album made with no preconceptions or planning. Intimate, intended for ourselves. Sessions were captured simultaneously in two ways to build the shared space of percep…
Das Jahr 2020
* Edition of 200 copies, incl. 8 page booklet * Das Jahr 2020 is the first published recording of Molly McCann, my older sister of two-and-a-half years. After encouraging my sister to record her piano playing for years, she embarked on her first recording project with Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”, 1841), a groundbreaking cycle of twelve thematically and harmonically interlocked character pieces depicting the twelve months of the year. Putting aside her usual toil for perfectio…
Cybernetic Coil 7"
Cybernetic Coil is an unedited recording of a self-playing system that employs algorithmic elements along with feedback between MSHR's handmade hardware synthesizers and the computer music environment Pure Data. The central structural element is a low frequency sine wave, which modulates their interactions in a spiral form. Cybernetic Coil is created with the intention of using these feedback exchanges between hardware and software to produce emergent, self-contained forms with sculptural qualit…
E.S.P. TV Lifestyle Guru 3
Another fine rare item from New York's Various/Artists. This time a beautiful piece of advice from Jill Kroesen. The V/A label produces ultra limited editions by artists working across a wide range of media. Edition of 100. Lathe-cut 7" record with laser etching.
E.S.P. TV Lifestyle Guru Pt. 2 : Soft Systems Music
Ben Vida’s “Soft Systems Music”, using facial recognition software as a compositional tool (!)