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Anagrams To Avoid SIWA #3 LP £12.99 Hard to find early release from Alan Sherry's SIWA label featuring three free string benders and Company associates: harpist Rhodri Davies (recorded some great duos with Derek Bailey), cellist Mark Wastell and double bassist Simon H. Fell. Starts off with some heavy drilling interplay that brings to mind a bunch of skinheads re-interpreting Iancu Dumitrescu before dissolving into the kind of slow, mournful arcs of unknown sound that barely imply the presence of human limbs. A good one, recorded live in Chelmsford, England in 1995. |
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Son's Scapegoat SIWA SCD002 CD £8.99 Beautifully presented in a colour screenprinted gatefold sleeve, Son's Scapegoat documents a wild March 2005 summit between legendary Japanese percussionist Sabu Toyozumi and PSF/Bishop recording artists Exias-J. Toyozumi casts a fearsome shadow over the entire history of liberated musical thought in Japan, playing on sessions alongside titans like Masayuki Takayanagi, Kaoru Abe, Keiji Haino, Takashi Mizutani (Rallizes) and Peter Br&#ouml;tzmann. Exias-J have long been committed to forging a culturally-specific response to contemporary breakthroughs in spontaneous composition, and as such they've spent the past decade or so pushing post-Takayanagi mass projections into whole new configurations of tomorrow. This is their best set to date, with Toyozumi harvesting huge waves of time while twin electric guitars chew on rubble, live electronics let loose huge rainbows of crank and cello, piano, trombone and flute lend the whole schlup a kind of big-band elegance. Indeed, the flute/guitar trade-offs here sound most like the kind of post-blues moves that Sonny Sharrock and Byard Lancaster laid down on Lancaster's great Vortex side, It's Not Up To Us. Who'd have thunk it? These guys, obviously. Highly recommended. Limited edition of only 500 copies. |
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Solo Improvisations SIWA SCD-003 CD £8.99 Re-mastered reissue of Chie Mukai's second solo album, originally released in 2000 in an edition of 300 copies that immediately sold out on issue. This new edition comes in a gorgeous silkscreened gatefold sleeve with obi strip. Three tracks recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo with vocals, er-hu, kengali, rings and cymbals. The music is slow, spacious folk-trance with the knotty droning sonorities of the er-hu sounding like the folk music of a phantom planet. A very melancholy set that feels like a more tactile, primitive take on the endless tides of Takehisa Kosugi's legendary Catch Wave. |
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Solo Improvisations SIWA #6 LP £19.99 Original copies of Chie Mukai's OOP second solo album, released in 2000 in an edition of 300 copies that immediately sold out on issue. Comes in a gorgeous silkscreened sleeve with Alan Sherry’s usual classy style. Three tracks recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo by fellow provocateur Masayoshi Urabe, Mukai uses vocals, er-hu, kengali, rings and cymbals. The music is slow, spacious folk-trance with the knotty droning sonorities of the er-hu sounding like the folk music of a phantom planet. A very melancholy set that feels like a more tactile, primitive take on the endless tides of Takehisa Kosugi's legendary Catch Wave. |
