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"Black Editions Archive is ecstatic to announce the newest release in the Milford Graves Archival series, the double LP, Children of the Forest, featuring previously unreleased 1976 sessions with Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle that re-write the book on Milford Graves's ensemble music of the 1970s Graves recorded these sessions... -
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"On September 6th, 1993, I felt a stranger's presence flow through me 'The end of material civilization is near Man will soon transcend the physical realm But when this day comes, many souls will be lost forever,' she announced and then swiftly disappeared She has since visited me occasionally, and with her help I've witnessed...
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Reissue, originally released in 1993 White Heaven's second album, Strange Bedfellow, is one of the great unsung albums of the '90s Japanese underground Released two years after their striking debut, Out, the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic and finely honed sound You Ishihara's songwriting and arrangements take...
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Reissue, originally released in 1986 A dreamlike dispatch from mid-80s Japan, the first and only Hallelujahs album is an entrancing and gentle work of psychedelic pop brilliance In a series of informal studio sessions between 1985 and 1986, Shinji Shibayama (Nagisa Ni Te) gathered a group of friends, emerging luminaries from the...
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"It's common for these musicians to be labelled muscular (and other testosterone-laden terms), but it is perhaps more fitting to register them with the female archetype Kali, who enacts destruction in order to make way for new life As we embark on a new century amidst socio-political upheaval, the Brötzmann/Haino duo feels like...
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In August 1969, Masayuki Takayanagi formed his first New Direction group and embarked on an unparalleled musical journey that over the final 22 years of his life would define him as an uncompromising artist who would forge a visionary new musical language Comprised of himself on acoustic and electric guitar and joined by Motoharu...
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Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music,...
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Full title: My lord Music, I most humbly beg your indulgence in the hope that you will do me the honour of permitting this seed called Keiji Haino to be planted within you For over 25 years, Keiji Haino has used the hurdy gurdy to channel dark dimensions -- creating music that bridges the centuries between distant medieval eras...
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Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Kan Mikami's I'm the Only One Around For 50 years, Kan Mikami has stood as a master of the Japanese blues and outsider folk His unmistakable, powerfully evocative voice and surrealistic poetry reveal a gritty, transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocations of...
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