Music from Japan

First edition of the CD-only third album of uncompromising electronically-processed violin tracks by Hideaki Shimada, self-released on Pico in 1991.

Make Up, the fourth album from pioneering Japanese rock outfit Flower Travellin’ Band, captures the group at a point of bold experimentation and artistic growth. Released in 1973, the record was conceived as a deliberate hybrid of live performance intensity and studio-crafted exploration, offering listeners an immersive portrait of a band expanding its sonic and creative horizons. Following the band’s return from Canada, Flower Travellin’ Band set out to build an album that balanced raw concert …

*200 copies limited edition* Originally released in 2009, Capri is a concept album composed of fragmented vignettes, lost minutes and scenes from an idyllic imagining. A collection of brief moments, suspended shimmers, and frail settings, Capri was never meant to be more than its own thin veneer; a naked and subtle wash of saturated and semi-transparent colors, rolling as gently as ocean waves against rocky beaches, of fading afternoon sunlight, of momentary experience. Peaceful yet isolated, qu…

Very rare lathe-cut 7", with the addition of a 7" anti-record, in an edition of only 5 numbered copies in metal sculpure sleeve by Ichiro Tsuji's extreme noise/industrial/experimental project, self-released on UPD Organization in 2012.

Very rare lathe-cut 7" in an edition of only 5 numbered copies in metal sculpure sleeve by Ichiro Tsuji's extreme noise/industrial/experimental project, self-released on UPD Organization in 2012. This is the 5th copy released without the addition of the anti-record.

Very rare art edition of 100 copies with hand-made metal foil covers of sound installation artist Koji Tano's self-released first album from 1992 of powerful experimental noise.

A set of 9 original color photo prints made by sound artist Koji Tano in the early 90s, documenting one of his very early multi-media installations.

1990 US re-issue on Forced Exporusre of the first LP from 1985 by Japanese noise giant and early collaborator of Merzbow, and member of Zeni Geva, YBO² and Absolut Null Punkt. With insert.

At a time when the Japanese jazz scene was rapidly maturing and one accomplished musician after  another was emerging, another saxophonist worthy of new attention joined the scene: Masafumi  Yamaguchi. This work, his memorable first album as a leader, now makes its long-awaited first appearance as part of the seventh installment of "Spin This Now!"

A refined jazz work by Hiromasa Suzuki. Featuring Nobuyoshi Ino on bass and the accomplished Steve Jackson on drums, this album unfolds through interplay that is tightly knit yet relaxed throughout, and now makes its long-awaited first appearance as part of the seventh installment of "Spin This Now!"

Following the great response to the previous release "Flash Up," a live recording from Shinjuku Pit Inn in March 1977, this new work composed by Takeo Moriyama was recorded about a year later. The second release left by the Takeo Moriyama Group on Teichiku now finally makes its debut as part of the seventh installment of "Spin This Now!"

A pinnacle of City Pop beloved around the world returns in a limited clear yellow vinyl edition. Featuring Makoto Matsushita’s refined arrangements and Mai Yamane’s commanding vocal performance, Tasogare stands as a legendary album that has also shaken the global music scene as a highly influential sampling source. Mai Yamane’s voice—powerful yet tinged with husky melancholy—perfectly captures the atmosphere of “tasogare-doki” (twilight), just as the title suggests. This timeless masterpiece env…

Beloved by fans under the nickname “Colgen”, jazz pianist Hiromasa Suzuki released this jazz-funk album in 1977 as part of the high-fidelity Toshiba Pro-Use Series. Now, this sought-after title is being pressed on transparent red vinyl for the first time ever. A favorite among Japanese jazz collectors, the album features a standout cover of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man,” and continues to gain renewed attention amid the global resurgence of fusion music. This is a must-have piece for fans of …

*100 copies limited edition* Japanese musician Yutaka Tanaka released his works under the name S-Core. Early works are all cassette albums he put out on his own cassette label Afflict Records, many of those were recorded via mail collaboration with many sound artists from international underground scene, such as Stefano Biasin (Italy), Telepherique and Trigger B (Germany), Merzbow (Japan), Al Margolis/If, Bwana (USA), Rafael Flores (Spain).

*2026 stock* 2 years after their debut album on Utech Records, P/O Massacre goes deeper in their immersive noise experimentation in this collaboration album with Alex Buess, and Merzbow (Masami Akita). An architecture of distortion, Moog processors, spring reverb, drone effects and more, then developed in different directions by two electronic/noise veterans. It’s a journey of pure sensation, destruction, and rebirth. A skull-vibrating sound decomposition to your face. For this very reason of se…

*2026 stock* Anton Ponomarev: saxophone, electronicsRyoko Ono: saxophone, mixing, mastering This record was originally released by Fort Evil Fruit (Ireland), July 15, 2022.

Laputa, a title taken from the fantastical floating island of Gulliver's Travels is aptly named as 'The album that never landed' for, apart from a limited touchdown in Japan, Laputa was never released. This mystical world is a summation of Yokota's journey so far, a complex and at times challenging work but immeasurably rewarding. Beguiling and bewitching in equal measure. Over fifteen undulating sonic fugue states, he guides listeners round a liminal world, made up of familiar materials but for…

Tip! A pivotal force in the foundations of Noise music in Japan, Fumio Kosakai is half of The Incapacitants, and has recorded with other acts such as Hijokaidan, CCCC, and Club Skull. Originally released on cassette in an edition of fifty copies in 1993, "The Warm Garden" is a pinacle for collectors of 90s noise and the outer realms of Japanese psychadelia. The work steps away from the denshi zatsuon (electronic noise) of his other groups and instead comprises two pieces of minimal electronics, …

K2 is the project of Kimihide Kusafuka, born in Shizuoka, who began his musical activity in 1981 devoting himself entirely to recording noise and experimental music — before the term "noise music" as a genre had even been established. Over the following four years he released around 20 tapes on his own Kinky Tape Collection label (later renamed Kinky Musik Institute), working across several radically different noise styles simultaneously. Alongside Masami Akita (Merzbow), Hijokaidan, and Toshiji…

On Waterforest, Yoichi Kamimura turns a multichannel installation into an intimate atlas of water and ice, braiding global field recordings into a quietly immersive study of climate, memory and the act of listening to landscapes.