ANGEL IN HEAVY SYRUP - 'Angel In Heavy Syrup' CD (Subterranean Records)
The first album by these Osaka girls is a way-60's-style not-quite-garage psychedelic tour de force, rather reminiscent of the earliest San Francisco sound groups and the famous Japanese noise-rock scene. Sometimes gentle and spacey, sometimes punky, with great, lush female vocals. This reissue (with different artwork to the 1991 Alchemy Records edition) also includes as a bonus track their 11 minute space opus "Crazy Blues" from the out-of-print, Japan-only compilation "Taste of the Wild West 3". Guitarist Toda Fusao later collaborated with Japanoise legend Masonna under the name Christine 23 Onna. Still sealed!
UK 15£
Europe 16£
World 17£
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SOUTH SATURN DELTA - 'Experience The Concreteness' CD (Cold Spring CSR80CD)
This is South Saturn Delta's debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with guitar and voice from Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), synth and voice from Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro, C.C.C.C., YBO2) and drums from Nobuko Emi (Tsurubami). An extreme psychedelic noise trip over 4 lengthy tracks.
Seminal Industrial compilation from 1992, which features contributions from 24 outstanding experimental and industrial artists from Europe, Japan and the US: Arcane Device, Carl Stone, Chris Moriarty, Controlled Bleeding, Cranioclast, Desaccord Majeur, Etant Donnes, Fat Hacker, Hélène Sage & Bernard Vitet, Hijokaidan, Michael Hovacsek, Incapacitants, Joe Papa, KK Null, Masonna, Paul Lemos, PGR, Phallus Dei, Skin Chamber, Solmania, Un Drame Musical Instantané and Violent Onsen Geisha. Compiled and with extensive notes on the artists by Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding), with artwork by Arthur Potter. The packaging includes a large and quite elegantly printed folder inside a 6" by 12.5" (!!) slipcase. Still sealed!
