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Sunday, August 18, 2019

Al Columbia - (1992) Johnny 23





Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - (2019) April Is The Cruellest Month LP

Blank Forms Editions ‎– 008

Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi (1932 - 1991) was a maverick Japanese guitarist, a revolutionary spirit whose oeuvre embodied the radical political movements of late ‘60s Japan. Having cut his teeth as an accomplished Lennie Tristano disciple playing cool jazz in the late ‘50s, Takayanagi had his mind blown by the Chicago Transit Authority’s “Free Form Guitar” in 1969 and promptly turned his back on the jazz scene by which he was beloved, going as far as to call his former peers and admirers “a bunch of losers” in the press. Takayanagi had found a new direction, an annihilation of jazz and its associated idolatry of hegemonic American culture. Aiming his virtuoso chops towards the stratosphere, Takayanagi dedicated himself to the art of the freakout, laying waste to tradition left and right, most notably via the all-out assault of his aptly-named New Direction for the Arts (later New Direction Unit) and collaborations with like-minded outsider saxophonist Kaoru Abe. His innovations on the instrument parallel those of Sonny Sharrock and Derek Bailey and paved the way for the Japanese necromancy of Keiji Haino and Otomo Yoshihide, but even at its most limitless hurdling Takayanagi’s playing is propelled by the dexterous grasp of his foundations, to which he paid tribute with elegant takes on flamenco and Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman.” In the autumn of his life, Takayanagi’s solo Action Direct performances made him one of the first guitarists, alongside but independent of Keith Rowe, to use tabletop guitar for pure noise improvisation.


Culled from 1975 sessions by the Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, April is the cruellest month was originally slated for release on ESP-Disk before the pioneering free jazz label’s untimely demise that year, eventually being released on a 1991 CD in Japan. Part of the period of Takayanagi’s career which he termed “Non-Section Music,” one can only imagine how its unholy racket might have altered an international understanding of Japanese noise had the LP reached American shores upon its inception. On “We Have Existed” and “What Have We Given?”, the classic lineup of Takayanagi with Kenji Mori (alto sax, flute, bass clarinet), Nobuyoshi Ino (bass, cello), and Hiroshi Yamazaki (percussion) prove that free improvisation was thriving well beyond Western Europe with a set of dilapidated, spacious clanging, Takayanagi’s squalling feedback and Mori’s Eric Dolphy moves undulating atop the joyous clamor. The cataclysmic “My Friend, Blood Shaking My Heart” is another story altogether. With the vertiginous abandon of a jet engine, the unit immediately launches into an unrelenting sidelong barrage of frenzied, blistering noise. Infernal sheets of contorted sound find the berserk instrumentalists hopelessly entangled as they urge the explosion deeper and deeper into ecstatic oblivion. Takayanagi’s finely honed guitar abuse, Ino’s demonic squirming, and Mori’s ferocious reed attack occasionally rise above the din only to subsumed once more by the maelstrom. And then, twenty minutes later, it’s over as quickly as it began. Rivaled in intensity only by John Coltrane’s The Olatunji Concert, Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, and Dave Burrell’s Echo, April is the cruellest month finally, deservedly sees the light of day on the vinyl format for which it was originally conceived, marking the first issue of Takayanagi’s music outside of Japan.
 

Daniel Menche - (1995) The Chrome Homicide

Banned Production ‎– 065 

Daniel Menche - (1995) Vulgar Scratch CS

 Gender-Less Kibbutz ‎– 006

Daniel Menche - (2008) Body Melt LP

Important Record ‎– 175

Neglected Skies - (2011) Diluted In Despair And Silence

Self Released ‎– none

Dog Holocaust - (2008) Volume I, II, III CD

Gaping Hole ‎– none

Dosis Letalis / Macronympha - (2017) The Evils Of Nationalism CDr

 Bizarre Audio Arts ‎– none

Halshug - (2019) Drøm LP

 Southern Lord ‎– 273

Efficient Refineries - (2006) Epinervio CD

menstrualrecordings ‎– 002

Emaciator - (2006) Torment CS

Not On Label ‎– none

Execution Support Act – Infanticide CDr

 Smell The Stench ‎– none

Fabio Orsi - (2019) Sterminato Piano LP

Backwards ‎– 035

Today is AUG 18th, 2019 motherfucker's...

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Femeheim ‎- (2017) Egofanal CD

Death Continues Records ‎– 010

Final Solution - (2019) Mass Death CD

Der Bünker ‎– none

Frataxin - (2018) ST CS

No Rent Records ‎– 107

GX Jupitter-Larsen + Vitaliy Maklakov - (2013) ST CDr

Heart Shaped Box Prod. ‎– 068

Hängd - (2011) Med Repet Runt Halsen CS

Järtecknet ‎– 002

VA - (1993) Fear Of Smell LP

Vermiform ‎– 011

Heid - (1997) Beneath The Wing Of Shadows CS

Heid Tapes ‎– 001

Horoscope - (2019) Carne LP

Self Released‎ – none
 

The Rats - (2014) ST LP

Mississippi Records ‎– 028
First LP, recorded in 1979 by Portland punk legends - the Rats. Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, The Range Rats, The Weeds, The Lollipop Shop and a million other bands along with Rod Rat present a punk rock masterpiece. Stripped down and lo fi. The record has a slight psychedelic edge and some definite roots in early rock and roll. The record that started to define the aesthetic that would later inform what Fred and Toody accomplished with Dead Moon. Nuts and bolts great songwriting on songs such as Teenagers, World war 3, Social Indigestion and more.

The Rats - (2014) Intermittent Signals LP

Mississippi Records ‎– 039
Second LP, recorded in 1980, buy Portland punk legends - The Rats. Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, The Range Rats, The Weeds. The Lollipop Shoppe and a million other bands are joined on this one by Sam Henry of the Wipers, Napalm Beach and a million other bands. A very eclectic LP with elements of Punk, new wave, art rock, psychedelia and early Rock and roll. Great nuts and bolts song writing. A true punk rock classic.

The Rats - (2019) In A Desperate Red LP

Mississippi Records ‎– 001
At last! FRED and TOODY COLE (DEAD MOON, PIERCED ARROWS) and drummer LOUIS SAMORA's ultimate punk masterpiece—In A Desperate Red. This is the last record by the Portland punk legends before moving on to a very brief country period and then Fred and Toody moving on to Dead Moon. In fact, two songs from the first Dead Moon LP hail from the same session as this LP. In A Desperate Red combines garage rock, new wave and art punk—just picture a more punk version of Dead Moon if you can. 6 years of work went into remixing and remastering this version with Fred Cole twisting knobs and obsessing over it's every detail and then GREG SHADOAN and TIM STOLLENWERK finishing the job. One of Fred Cole's greatest records and impossible to find for many years—at last this LP is available as it was meant to be heard. Play it loud! First Pressing includes a 40-page booklet.

Ironfistofthesun - (2010) Danny La Rue Died In His Sleep CS

Unrest Productions ‎– 025

Jarl - (2005) Intensive Fracture CS

Abisko ‎– 001

Jim Haynes - (2019) Inconclusive CS

Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. ‎– 069

Kadaitcha - (2019) Southern Phlegm CS

Sentimental Productions ‎– 011

Karl Runau ‎- (1998) Beyond Frequencies CD

Galakthorrö ‎– 010  FLAC