Reissues
Debut
** 2021 Stock. In process of stocking ** Craftman Records presents Debut by Takao Uematsu Quartet/Quintet. Art Direction – Ben Nishizawa, Bass – Yoshio Suzuki, Drums – George Ohtsuka, Electric Piano [Fender Piano] – Sadayasu Fujii, Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Yoshihiko Kannari, Producer – Takeshi Fujii, Tenor Saxophone – Takao Uematsu, Trombone – Takashi Imai.
Buried in Noise
Hardcover edition. This artist's book is the first comprehensive monograph on sound and media artist Paul DeMarinis, born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. DeMarinis has avidly followed the development of communication media, interested in discoveries being made in the realm of physical phenomena and the corresponding objects and devices that have been invented as well as in their cultural and social aspects. His works embody an aesthetic culture of invention permeated by a critical, yet humorous and …
"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.
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…
Live at Jazzbed 1970
In process of stocking. Craftman presents a live concert by New Direction recorded at Jazzbed, Tokyo on September 27, 1970. The album includes 2 tracks performed by Masayuki Takayanagi - Guitar, Kaoru Abe - Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Performer, and Hiroshi Yamazaki - Drums, Percussion.
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 noise guitar improvisers, and the first (wi…
Dislocation (断層)
** 2021 Stock ** Jinya Disc presents Dislocation (断層) by Masayuki Takayanagi. Recorded at Aketa no Mise, December 26, 1983. Produced by Jinya Disc. Artwork – Yoko Hase, Artwork, Design – Studio Zap Inc., Drums – Hiroshi Yamazaki, Guitar – Masayuki Takayanagi, Liner Notes – 斉藤安則, Mastered By – ALM Records, Piano – Fumio Yasuda.
Archive 1
Jinya Disc presents Masayuki Takayanagi Archive 1. The equivalent of the long-out-of-print box, reprinted in simple CDs on standard slimline cases, without any booklet.
Recording studios: Jean-Jean, Shibuya, Pulcinella, Shibuya. Bass – Nobuyoshi Ino (tracks: 5-1 to 5-4), Clarinet, Flute, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Kenji Mori (tracks: 5-1 to 5-4), Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [Gut] – Akira Iijima, Masayuki Takayanagi, Engineer [整音] – 小島幸雄, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Soprano Sa…
The complete works of Jojo
Jinya Disc presents The complete works of Jojo, 2 DVD set, valuable footage of Action Direct and duo. This release contains 2 DVD:
The Complete Works Of Jojo: Action Direct
Masayuki Takayanagi: guitars, motors, tape recorders, ring modulators, analog effects, megaphone speakers, etc. Filmed by Yasunori Saito and Kyoko Saito at the New Direction for the Arts Regular Concert Vol. 69 (1, 2) and Vol. 70 (3, 4), at Jean Jean, Tokyo, August 4 and December 17, 1990. Recorded by Masaki Shimada (1, 2) an…
Blind Area
* 250 copies* Hans van Eck started composing music in 1976 and was trained in electronic music at the Institute of Sonology by Jaap Vink, Frits Weiland and Gottfried-Michael Koenig. He studied Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and received lessons in composition by Daan Manneke. His works are performed all over Europe by his own Schreck Ensemble and others. The Blind Area cassette, released in 1987 by Decay International, compiles several of his early electronic compositions. They serve…
Brutal Alter Minimal
* 300 copies, includes printed insert * Mario Marzidovšek (1961-2011) was a member of the international Mail-Art network, painter, poet, cassette culture pioneer and a key figure of the Yugoslavian underground scene. Influenced by the electro-acoustic avantgarde he began to explore electronic music in the late 1970’s. Like an erupting volcano he released numerous tapes between 1984 and 1987, before aborting his musical activities to move on.Marzidovšek was truly living an industrial lifestyle as…
Ömhet & Skilsmässa
Tip! *Second press, 500 copies* Enhet För Fri Musk album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. A concept album on relationships, family values and broken promises. 18 songs.
Embedded in the ever exciting Swedish underground scene Enhet För Fri Musik continues the quest for innovation numerous legendary Swedish bands started during the 70s, Pärson Sound, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Arbete Och Fritid. Taking the idea…
Along the Way
Hardcover edition .Texts by Brötzmann, Stephen O'Malley, John Corbett, Karl Lippegaus, Heather Leigh, Sotiris Kontos, Thomas Millroth, Markus Müller Being on the road so much, the time-space between the tours is not long enough for preparing big canvases and starting oil-paintings. You use what’s on the table - paper, cardboard, an empty cigar box, pens, felts and brushes, ink in a glass or a Chinese ink stone. You use what there is and that’s what we musicians call improvising and that’s wha…
Gender and Identity in Jazz
The 14th Darmstadt Jazzforum held in October 2015 focused on different aspects of identity in jazz. The participants talked about the perception of female instrumentalists, about „male“ or „female“ sound, about homosexuality, about references to the body as well as about the denial of the erotic element in music, about Jutta Hipp, Ivy Benson, Clare Fischer, Sun Ra and others. The conference participants looked at jazz history, but they self-confidently also looked at the jazz scene of today. The…
Situazioni del Terzo Mondo
** Edition of 100 Colored LP ** The world of Italian Library music surprises us again with an extremely evocative record. Released in 1972 with the name of Maria Teresa Luciani but really produced and composed by her brother Maestro Antonino Riccardo Luciani, Situazioni del Terzo Mondo ranks among the most important abstract soundscape records. Spontaneous tribalisms tainted with concrete sounds support the looming psychedelic vein, with different solutions from track to track.
Jazz in fabbrica
Cinedelic presents Jazz in Fabbrica by Enrico Intra. Recorded in Ratti’s Factory in Guanzate (Como) on October 31, 1972. Pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, among the most important ones in the history of European jazz, Enrico Intra has developed a poetics aiming at the encounter betwee the most exquilisitely jazz language and contemporary music of a cultural matrix, and for this reason he was among the first Italian musicians to develop a “European” concept of jazz. Nuova Civiltà suite, …
Transvitaexpress - Racconto Psicologico dell'Aldilà
** Multi-Colored Vinyl, white / grey / black marbled (Locomotive Marbled Smoke). Edition of 400 copies on marbled vinyl, includes OBI.** Soave presents Transvitaexpress - Racconto psicologico dell'aldilà by Marcello Giombini. One of the weirdest italian album ever released. "Transvitaexpress is the sonorous realization of an idea that had been developing in me for some time and to which the encounter with the poet Barbarino gave the decisive push. I used the "tape-sound" technique, that is the …
Ali's Smile
This record is divided into two sections. The first part is the title track and takes up most of side one. Ali's Smile was first published in 1971 and was privately released as a one-sided LP, in an edition of 99 copies. It came in a plain sleeve with a hardback copy of the spoken text, and was sold exclusively through Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, UK. Bill Butler, the bookshop owner, was still paying off a viciously punitive fine and associated court costs imposed in 1968 after a guilty verdict…
Aéroproducts
**150 copies, clear vinyl** Rotorelief presents a reissue of Alésia Cosmos' Aéroproducts, originally released in 1985, with bonus material. In the '80s, Alésia Cosmos was one of those pioneering groups that invented a handful of things: uprooted electro, pop-shifted funk. With some synths, rhythm boxes, magnetic tapes, crazy guitars and hallucinated voices, they rocked the underground for four years, with two albums, playing live in France and Europe. The dazzling epic of the magic combo has bec…
Hymn to Eternal Death
** Box set includes 10" lathe cut record, cassette in A5 sleeve housed in heavy stock black box with metal riveted edges. Edition of 50, only 30 copies available. ** "Hymn To Eternal Death" is the new full length from Maso Yamazaki's "Controlled Death" project. Nearly an hour of new material, composed as a multi-format release mixing the echo-saturated death electronics style with funereal organ and synthesizer music. Presented simultaneously as a deluxe 10" lathe cut record and cassette box, as…
Peinheil
"Peinheil" is the fourth full-length from German power electronics act Femeheim. Following in the footsteps of Anenzephalia, Dagda Mor, Advokat Ihrer Hoheit, etc. "Peinheil" alternates between extreme noise, heavy electronics, and atmospheric industrial passages, bringing a classic sound into the new generation of European industrial music. Mastered by Grant Richardson.