★Public Bath Press
A Life in Folk (and Other Bitter Songs) (Book + CD)
A Life in Folk (and other bitter songs) brings Kan Mikami’s uncompromising voice into English through his 2000 autobiography, expanded with further writing, interviews and a previously unreleased 2017 Sapporo concert. Part confession, part cultural h…
Ginga (Book + CD)
Ginga gathers the restless visual and sonic imagination of Seiichi Yamamoto in a newly expanded English-language edition. Reworked in full colour with fresh art and previously unpublished photography, the 244-page volume arrives with an exclusive CD …
Creating Enka - The 'Soul of Japan' in the Postwar Era (Book)
In Creating Enka: The “Soul of Japan” in the Postwar Era, Yusuke Wajima dismantles one of modern Japan’s most durable cultural myths. This prize-winning history shows how enka - often treated as timeless tradition - was actively remade after the war,…
Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus
This is the real Japanese Noise bible.
Free Jazz in Japan: A Personal History
This book, the only history of free jazz in Japan, has been reprinted many times in Japan and is finally available to readers overseas in English translation. From its earliest stirrings in the 1960s until it reached international recognition in the …
Japanese Indies Music 1976-1989: A History and Guide
In process of restock. Dokkiri! tells the history of a remarkable complex of musical subcultures that developed in Japan from the mid-1970s. Starting with a discussion of the earliest rumblings of punk and new wave, all types of independently produce…