Out Now on PSF : nouveautés et prochaines sorties japonaises du label culte
Entre tous les labels de musique underground, PSF tient la palme du plus fameux avec Important Records. Chaque nouvelle sortie prévoit son lot de psychédélisme, de free improv dopée à des dynamiques bruitistes dont les groupes japonais ont le secret. Il faut saluer "Psychedelic Speed Freaks" non seulement pour avoir donné la parole à High Rise, Fushitsusha, Kan Mikami ou Kousokuya, grands noms de la musique alternative nippone ; mais aussi pour sa constante volonté de présenter de nouveaux artistes, en les introduisant peu à peu à un plus large public. Le 12 décembre, le label a annoncé la sortie d'albums de groupes plus ou moins obscurs, ainsi que les premières prévisions pour 2008.
Trois nouveautés au programme de décembre, et autant d'idées cadeaux.
GENDAI SOKKYO (myspace)
"Gendai Sokkyo"
PSFD-171 (CD)
Release date: 3rd December, 2007 – OUT NOW!
Masahiro Deguchi flute, guitar, effects, kalimba
Masaaki Motoyama viola
Hirokuni Ueno piano
Hiroyuki Usui drums, percussion
Takanari Sato drums
Another
piece of ineffable mystery from the deepest bowels of the Tokyo
underground. Led by flautist and guitarist Masahiro Deguchi, Gendai
Sokkyo (the name means Contemporary Improvisation) are a group with no
discernable history, who seem to have sprung from nothing to fully
formed life.
As the name suggests, the group showcase an
improvisatory fusion of methodology and sound palette, drawing upon
free jazz/free improvisation, avant rock moves and the textures of
contemporary classical. An explosion of weird dynamics, suggestive in
its inclusiveness and entirely psychedelic in its approach.
ONNA
"Kataha"
PSFD-173 (CD)
Release date: 3rd December, 2007 – OUT NOW!
Keizo Miyanishi guitar, vocals
Kotei Penguin electric guitar, violin
Roiki acoustic guitar, etc
The
musical alter ego of obsessive pointillist underground cartoonist and
illustrator Keizo Miyanishi, Onna have been in varying liminal stages
of musical existence/non-existence since the early eighties. Their
bleak and nihilistic no-wave downer sound riveted the Tokyo scene of
the time –an early line-up featured a pre-White Heaven Michio Kurihara.
But after a couple of years and just one single, the group faded back
into silence, becoming the stuff of rumour and faded memories. It was
kind of shocking then to have a reformed Onna suddenly doing the rounds
of Tokyo clubs a year or so back.
After a couple of CDrs and
an acclaimed appearance on Tokyo Flashback 6, Kataha is their first
album in well over a decade. Detuned and fractured psychedelic blues
filled with a bucketful of abject fear and personal loathing – topped
off with some of the most strikingly original vocal mannerisms in the
Japanese underground. A fantastic return.
KIM DOO SOO
"Ten Days Butterfly"
PSFD-175 (CD)
PSFK-001-2 (2LP)
Release date: CD - 3rd December, 2007 – OUT NOW!
2LP – 10th December, 2007
Kim Doo Soo guitar, vocals
Kim
Doo Soo is the deepest and most introspective of Korea’s acid folk
singers. Many are the legends that cling to his songs – political
oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a ten-year period of mountain
seclusion… Despite having been active since the mid eighties and having
released four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only
became aware of him through his tracks on the recent Damon & Naomi
compilation, International Sad Hits.
On Ten Days Butterfy, his
fifth album, he mines productive veins of profound melancholy,
animistic nature, and unfathomable, hermetic affection. The whole is
couched in a veil of the most gorgeous still melodicism, Kim’s vocals
and guitar shaded with subtle accordion, violin, piano, organ and
harmonica. A reflective and unearthly beautiful masterpiece.
Available
on CD and on 180g double-vinyl. The vinyl edition is limited to 1000
copies and is already almost sold-out on Korean pre-orders alone.
Le premier Gendai Sokkyo lance un groupe tout neuf, dont les aspirations psychédéliques seraient hapées par leur optique d'improvisation libre (ça promet). Onna, "mieux connu" sous le nom de mangaka Keizo Miyanishi, trouve sa place de musicien sous ce pseudonyme pour un album entier, après son apparition blues psyché sur la compilation Tokyo Flashback Vol.6. Le troisième n'est pas moins que le retour sur galette de Kim Doo Soo, star underground de Corée, dont les LPs sont déjà presque tous vendus en pré-commande. Et comme PSF est un label qui ne fait pas les choses à moitié, voici les tendances 2008, et je vous préviens c'est du LOURD.
Forthcoming
Dec 25th: Asian Flashback CD ; Ahousen CD ; Kousokuya live DVD.
Jan. 21st: Vajra live CD ; Masayoshi Urabe live CD.
February: new Keiji Haino ; new Kazuki Tomokawa.
Vous avez bien lu, pour Noël un autre DVD live de Kousokuya (qui avait pourtant déjà eu son compte sur Echoes From Deep Underground sorti sur aRCHIVE recordings), une nouvelle compile et un album de Ahousen (projet qui inclut notamment le batteur de Suishou No Fune). Janvier 2008 verra un nouveau live de Vajra et de Urabe (qui a bossé avec Kan Mikami et Mukai Chie) et enfin, consécration en février : nouvel album de l'excellent Tomokawa et de mon diable de Keiji Haino.
I just can't wait!