Music

A couple of interesting things i came across today:

First, a podcast by the Japanese underground music writer Takeo Udagawa. Some rare things here by JA Caesar, Morita Doji, Tomokawa, Mikami etc.
http://fringemusic.podomatic.com/entry/2010-06-27T06_35_14-07_00
Could be interesting if this turns into a series...

A great piece of Satie by Kosugi Takehisa and Shimada Riri, released on LP on the Strange Fruits label. Lots of rare Kosugi 1980s performance photos too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erXatR_31Tc

And just in case anyone was wondering what Abe Kaoru's appearance in that Wakamatsu Koji was like, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gyIHldJyg

Or what a pre-record debut Tomokawa Kazuki might look and sound like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4QyR1NlwME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvsI_CYT0BY&feature=related

This Abe footage is mind shattering.  Beyond words exciting getting to see him in this kind of footage.

A great piece of Satie by Kosugi Takehisa and Shimada Riri, released on LP ...

Thanks for pointing these out - i was given a CD-R copy of this...
http://www.discogs.com/Riri-Shimada-%E8%A8%98%E6%86%B6%E3%81%AE%E6%B5%B7-The-Other-World-Of-Erik-Satie/release/1108090

One side solo - the other, 'duet'...

[Shizuka]

Further to the first entry at this topic, here:
http://noise.as/forum/index.php/topic,167.0.html

The link there shows a (brief) collaboration with Shizuka and Takashi Mizutani.
95年6月18日  「アルカロイド・小夜曲」  原宿・ギャラリー長谷川。Gallery Hasegawa in Harajuku.
>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYVtN6LCJVY

The description states that the video documents an event that was ultimately attended by the local constabulary
- something like Velvets' "Symphony of Sound"...?

                                                                          --::--

Just around the corner, presumably with adequate sound-proofing, a recent excursion...

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdaMWe7xwLk
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2VuOmmWB4o
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-smuKrscBI
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbcgoRtKV_Q

... maybe the only official record in 10 years of DJ Haino Keiji, is found on Tokyo Flashback 5.

And a pat on the back to whoever can identify just what Haino is spinning...

...what Haino is spinning...

Himself... The whirling dervish...?

Drums and sitar, perhaps...?