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	Kaikou (Yoshino / Natsuki Tamura): Kaikou Label: Oniva Product Code: 27343 Catalog Code: oniva 001 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
An intimate and unique collaboration between two far-ranging Japanese performers--Yoshino, also known for her work in Japanese underground rock, here on biwa (a short-necked fretted lute) and voice; and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii collaborator and Gato Libre leader--presenting exotic narratives in song using instrumental intervention of ardent improvisation.
	Fujii, Satoko: Stone Label: Libra Product Code: 27342 Catalog Code: 201-056 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
A stunning solo album working inside and outside of the piano and coaxing electronic response from the strings from pianist Satoko Fujii, caputered at Samurai Hotel in NY in September of 2018, and in the studio in Brooklyn three months later, during her prolific 60th "kanreki" birthday year, here in 15 dynamic and far-ranging improvisations revealing her depth and creative powers.
	Morishige, Yasumune / Yoko Ikeda / Takashi Masubuchi: Shade Label: Meena Product Code: 27333 Catalog Code: meenna-977 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
"This CD documents the complete first and second sets (each a little over 30 minutes) of a concert at Ftarri on September 29, 2018, performed by Yasumune Morishige (cello) Yoko Ikeda (viola), and Takashi Masubuchi (guitar), three improv...
	Nakamura,Toshimaru / Ken Ikeda / Tomoyoshi Date: Ink on Paper Label: Meena Product Code: 27332 Catalog Code: meenna-978 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
"No-input mixing board player Toshimaru Nakamura makes wide-ranging use of mixer feedback in his many performances in Japan and other countries. London-based electronics player Ken Ikeda has released albums on a number of labels includi...
	Kawabata, Makoto / Geoff Leigh: Spatial Roots Label: Acid Mothers Temple Product Code: 27300 Catalog Code: AMTCD-029 Country: Japan		Price: $12.95 In Stock
A live recording of the first encounter between Henry Cow/Radar Favourites/Ex-Wise Heads reed, wind and electronic artist Geoff Leigh and Acid Mother Temple guitarist and solo artist Kawabata Makoto, performing at Urbanguild, in Kyoto, Japan, in 2014 for a set of electronic, psychedelic improvisation of great detail using a vast arsenal of experimental approaches.
	Leigh, Geoff / Makoto Kawabata / Aogu Tanimoto: Live At Delsol Cafe Label: Acid Mothers Temple Product Code: 27299 Catalog Code: AMTCD-035 Country: Japan		Price: $12.95 Out of Stock
Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Kawabata Makoto meets Henry Cow wind player, percussionist and sound artist Geoff Leigh, with Aogu Tanimoto on violin & synth, as they are captured live at Delsol Cafe, in Yahata, Japan, performing a spiritually psychedelic five-part improvisation merging acoustic and electronic instruments in unorthodox and fascinating ways.
	Oyauchi / Deku Duo: Now's The Time? [VINYL] Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 27173 Catalog Code: AN-R1 Country: Japan		Price: $29.95 In Stock
The first release on Japan's Armageddon Nova, now reissued as a limited 180gm double vinyl LP, presenting a 2012 concert at Performing Arts Center, in Japan in 2012 by the duo of free improvising alto saxophonist Aishi Oyauchi, a peer of Karou Abe in the 60s, and contrabassist Deku, a member of the 70s free improvising group New Jazz Syndicate.
	Olive, Tim / Yan Jun: Brother of Divinity Label: 845 Audio Product Code: 27170 Catalog Code: 845-10 Country: Japan		Price: $11.95 In Stock
845 label leader and sonic explorer Tim Olive uses magnetic pickups and electronics in this meeting with radical living room concert sound artist, poet and improviser Yan Jun in Kobe, Japan, Jun using a variety of electronics, radio and field recordings as the two improvise in a wonderfully mischievous set of errant dialog and restrained deconstruction.
	Lyall, Cal / Tim Olive: Lowering Label: 845 Audio Product Code: 27169 Catalog Code: 845-9 Country: Japan		Price: $11.95 In Stock
Like mad scientists of sound, sonic explorers Tim Olive and Cal Lyall met in a Tokyo studio in 2012 armed with hydrophones, magnetic pickups and electronics to record this richly detailed and slowly unfolding work, blending organic and mechanical elements of indeterminate origin, finding absorbing dialog without clamor or tumult; intriguing and engrossing.
	Fujii, Satoko Orchestra Tokyo: Kikoeru, Tribute to Masaya Kimura Label: Libra Product Code: 26765 Catalog Code: 215-055 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 Out of Stock
Completing a year of monthly albums for pianist Satoko Fujii's "kanreki", or 60th birthday, is this impressive and cathartic album written for Fujii's Orchestra Tokyo as a tribute to late tenor saxophonist and 10 year orchestra member Masaya Kimura, with four compositions from Fujii and two from trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, in an album of both profound testimonly and celebratory release.
	Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman / Simon Tan: Preludes And Prepositions Label: ChapChap Records Product Code: 26642 Catalog Code: CPCD-013 Country: Japan		Price: $13.95 In Stock
Three extended free improvisations recorded in 2017 in Cubao Quezon City from the trio of Rick Countryman on alto saxophone, Simon Tan on acoustic bass, and Japense first generation free improviser Sabu Toyozumi on drums & Erhu (a 2-stringed Chinese instrument), as the trio take their listeners on a marathon session of inspired and playing.
	Sugimoto, Taku / Minami Saeki: Songs [2 CDs] Label: Ftarri Product Code: 26635 Catalog Code: ftarri-982 Country: Japan		Price: $21.95 In Stock
"The concept of Songs, the duo project of guitarist Taku Sugimoto and vocalist Minami Saeki, came about in the second half of 2016. By that December they had already made recordings of their music, and the following February they...
	Saeki, Minami / Wakana Ikeda / Yoko Ikeda / Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut / Manfred Werder: Sextet Label: Meena Product Code: 26634 Catalog Code: meenna-979 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
"While touring Europe in autumn 2017, Minami Saeki (voice), Wakana Ikeda (flute), Yoko Ikeda (viola), and Taku Sugimoto (guitar) visited Switzerland and joined up with Swiss composer/musicians Stefan Thut and Manfred Werder. This CD is ...
	Common Objects (Davies / Butcher / Davies / Lapelyte / Patterson / Thomas): Skullmarks Label: Meena Product Code: 26633 Catalog Code: meenna-980 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
"The group Common Objects was formed in 2005 by the British harpist/composer Rhodri Davies. The group has had a fluid membership, but in recent years its core members have been the six musicians performing on this album: John Butcher, A...
	Fujii, Satoko : Diary 2005-2015 [Scorebook] Label: Libra Product Code: 26620 Catalog Code: 201-053/054-SCORE Country: Japan		Price: $39.95 In Stock
A book of scores to accompany the double CD of 56 Satoko Fujii compostions titled "Diary 2005-2015", performed by respected classical pianist and educator Yuko Yamaoka, released as part of Satoko Fujii's ambitious 60th birthday monthly album set.
	Fujii, Satoko / Yuko Yamaoka: Diary 2005-2015: Tuko Yamaoka plays the music of Satoko Fujii [2 CDs] Label: Libra Product Code: 26616 Catalog Code: 201-053/054 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
A double CD of Satoko Fujii compositions, 56 short compositions from a series she started around 2005 to expand her skills as a composer, many of which fueled her many band's repertoires; in 2018 she asked respected classical pianist and educator Yuko Yamaoka to record this set of compositions as part of her 60th birthday monthly album set.
	Amu (Fujii / Tamura / Itani / Wildenhahn): Weave [CD & DVD] Label: Libra Product Code: 26615 Catalog Code: 204-051/052 Country: Japan		Price: $22.95 In Stock
Mizuki Wildenhahn adds an unusual percussive instrument through dance to the multi-arts Amu quartet of Wildenhahn, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, pianist Satoko Fujii, and percussionist Takashi Itani, heard on the CD and seen on the DVD of this 2-disc set of their unorthodox and absorbing live performance at Kanagawa Prefectural Lake Sagami-ko Exchange Center in 2018.
	Mochizuki, Harutaka : Through The Glass [CASSETTE] Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 26538 Catalog Code: AN-R 5CT Country: Japan		Price: $12.95 In Stock
Multi-instrumentalist improviser Harutaka Mochizuki releases this solo album performing on saxophone, performing two extended improvisations that explore the instrument as a whole, producing unusual sounds from the physical and mechanical aspects of the horn alongside more traditional playing, using an expanded range of dynamics to build tension and interest.
	Bucher / Countryman (w/ Simon Tan / Isla Antinero): Extremely Live in Manila Label: ChapChap Records Product Code: 26415 Catalog Code: CPCD-014 Country: Japan		Price: $9.95 In Stock
A live concert in Quezon City from the Manila based duo of Rich Countryman on alto saxophone and Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, who are joined on one track by acoustic bassist Simon Tan and trombonist Isla Antinero.
	Machida, Yoshio: Music From The SYNTHI Label: Baskaru Product Code: 26351 Catalog Code: karu:29 Country: Japan		Price: $13.95 In Stock
The SYNTHI AKS was developed by Electronic Music Studios in 1971, a portable modular synthesizer that used no keys, instead a generative music machine with a matrix patch panel allowing great flexibility in modulation, reverb, effect like delay, and glitch, here in 13 pieces composed by Yoshio Machida layering patterns developed on the SYNTHI.
	Mahobin (Fujii / Anker / Tamura / Mori): Live at Big Apple in Kobe Label: Libra Product Code: 26230 Catalog Code: 204-050 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Continuing the celebration of pianist Satoko Fujii's 60th birtday by releasing one CD each month, this quartet brings an excellent set of electroacoustic improvisation to the collection in a quartet with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, New York saxophonist Lotte Anker, and New York electronic artist and former DNA drummer Ikue Mori, performing live at Tokyo's Big Apple in 2018.
	Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Seijiro Murayama: Idiophonic Label: Ftarri Product Code: 26168 Catalog Code: ftarri-985 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
The 4th album from Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama and Parisian Jean Luc Guionnet, typically a saxophonist but here on pipe organ, presenting three live improvisations named for idiophones, instruments that creates sound by vibrating without the use of strings or membranes, with two improvisations at a church in Berlin and one at a church in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
	Sugimoto, Taku / Stefan Thut: Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut Label: Ftarri Product Code: 26167 Catalog Code: ftarri-984 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Two performers related by Wandelweiser--guitarist Taku Sugimoto and cellist Stefan Thut--met at oslo10 in Switzerland to perform two concerts with one composition from each: Stefan Thut uses chance operations changing the music's direction at the prompt of rolled dice; Sugimoto use sustained notes and ebow in a subtle but effective sound work.
	Imai, Kazuo / Roger Turner: Molecules [2 CDs] Label: Ftarri Product Code: 26166 Catalog Code: ftarri-983 Country: Japan		Price: $17.95 In Stock
Caught live at Bar Isshee in Tokyo, Japan in 2017, the duo of Kazuo Imai (nylon string guitar) and Roger Turner (snare drum, tom tom, cymbals, metal & wood) present two distinct sets, each one on a separate CD, the first using open but continuous playing of great control and precision, the second a more unpredictable and assertive set of unorthodox interplay.
	Toyozumi, Sabu / Rick Countryman / Simon Tan: The Center of Contradiction Label: ChapChap Records Product Code: 26154 Catalog Code: CPCD-012 Country: Japan		Price: $13.95 In Stock
A live recording from Quezon City, Philippines of the free improvising trio of Sabu Toyozumi on drums, Rick Countryman on alto saxophone, and Simon Tan on acoustic bass, bring the first generation Japanese free improviser together with some of the Philippines' brightest free players for two extended improvisations of lyrical excursions and solid and often surprising rhythmic response.
	This Is It! (Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura / Takashi Itani): 1538 Label: Libra Product Code: 25869 Catalog Code: 203-049 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Part of pianist Satoko Fujii's "Kanreki" (60th Birthday) tour and monthly album release, the "This Is It!" Trio with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and drummer/percussionist Takashi Itani is heard at Koendori Classics, in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2018, for an incredible album of Fujii's compositions that include quirky asides in coherent and effusive playing.
	de Waard, Frans / Takuji Naka / Tim Olive: False Mercury Label: 845 Audio Product Code: 25824 Catalog Code: 845-8 Country: Japan		Price: $11.95 In Stock
The titles places this unearthly experimental improvisation into the solar system, exactly where the blend of electronics, tapes, contact mics, spring, tubing, pickups and synth demand that the unusual soundscapes from the trio of Frans de Waard, Takuji Naka, and Tim Olive belong, in an alien dialog of interplanetary psychedelia using mutated and mesmerizing sound.
	Sangtae, Jin / Tim Olive: naar/voor Label: 845 Audio Product Code: 25823 Catalog Code: 845-7 Country: Japan		Price: $11.95 In Stock
Recording in Kobe, Japan in 2014, the duo of Jin Sangtae, organizer of Seoul's long-running dotolim concert series and who gainfully employs cast-off computer hard drives as sound sources, and Tim Olive, who uses electro-magnetic pickups to give voice to consumer/post-consumer objects, for three tracks of recycled and unorthodox sound.
	Kira Kira (Tamura / Spence / Fujii / Takemura): Bright Force Label: Libra Product Code: 25688 Catalog Code: 204-048 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Since 2007 Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and Australian keyboardist Alister Spence have collaborated on performance and recording in several configurations, including work with Tony Buck, Raymond McDonald, Jim O'Rourke, &c.; this energetic and otherworldly quartet session with trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and drummer Ittetsu Takemura was recored live Knuttel House, in Tokyo, 2017.
	Fujii, Satoko: Ninety-Nine Years Label: Libra Product Code: 25687 Catalog Code: 211-047 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Composer-pianist Satoko Fujii's new Orchestra Berlin, a ten-piece ensemble, presents a powerful work written specifically for this group in thought-provoking compositions of and uninhibited energy, with performers including saxophonists Gebhard Ullmann, Paulina Owczarek & Matthias Schubert, trombonist Matthias Muller, bassist Jan Roder, and drummers Peter Orins and Michael Griener.
	Akiyama, Tetuzi / Magnus Granberg / Henrik Olsson: Whose Words? Label: Ftarri / Meenna Product Code: 25516 Catalog Code: meenna-983 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
A surprising joining of improvisers and composers from Japanese acoustic guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama playing with Swedish composers and performers, Magnus Granberg on clarinet and Henrik Olsson on percussion and electronics, the latter two part of the chamber ensemble Skogen, for five works of profound calm and center through slow harmonics weaving beautiful aural statements.
	International Nothing, The: In Doubt We Trust Label: Ftarri Product Code: 25467 Catalog Code: ftarri-216 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
The duo project of Berlin-based clarinetists Kai Fagaschinski and Michal Thieke, (Magic I.D., Christof Kurzmann, Splitter Ochester) in their 5th album of timbre-rich, harmonically fascinating and slowly evolving reed interactions, returning to their core duo after their previous quartet album, here presenting a large rich and beautifully weaving work.
	Oyauchi, Aishi : Hidden Though It Is Difficult Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 25420 Catalog Code: AN-R 4 Country: Japan		Price: $14.95 In Stock
Aishi Oyauchi is a free improvising alto saxophonist in the tradition of Kaoru Abe and who hails from the same first generation of Japanese free improvisers from the 1960s; this album finds him performing on alto and soprano sax at Performing Art Center, using space and abrupt diversions alongside unusual tone and technique with percussive asides.
	Mochizuki, Harutaka : Through The Glass Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 25419 Catalog Code: AN-R 5 Country: Japan		Price: $14.95 In Stock
Multi-instrumentalist improviser Harutaka Mochizuki releases this solo album performing on saxophone, performing two extended improvisations that explore the instrument as a whole, producing unusual sounds from the physical and mechanical aspects of the horn alongside more traditional playing, using an expanded range of dynamics to build tension and interest.
	Kaze (Fujii / Tamura / Pruvost / Orins): Atody Man Label: Libra Product Code: 25413 Catalog Code: Circum Libra 204 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
The fifth album from the French and Japanese quartet Kaze, initiated by drummer Pter Orins, with two trumpeters--Christian Pruvost and Natsuki Tamura--and pianist Satoko Fujii, all using extended and unusual techniques as they perform innovative compositions from Fujii, Orins, and Tamura with a balance of serious and playful approaches; brilliant.
	Fujii, Satoko: Solo Label: Libra Product Code: 25412 Catalog Code: 201-046 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
A stunning album of solo performances, the first of 12 monthly releases from Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii celebrating her 60th birthday, in an impressive set of seven original compositions illustrating her incredible skills in both profoundly beautiful and technically spectacular playing inside and out of the piano, an exceptional start to the series.
	Kerbaj, Mazen / Toshimaru Nakamura: East of Where? Label: Ftarri Product Code: 25337 Catalog Code: ftarri-986 Country: Japan		Price: $14.95 In Stock
Turkish free improviser trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, best known for the "A" Trio, meets Japanese no-input mixing board pioneer Toshimaru Nakamura for an insanely energetic duo of squelchy electroacoustic improvisations, both players staying on the electric side, and on the far side of lowercase ea-improv as the two ebb and flow a wild dialog of sound.
	Oyauchi, Aishi : Wrong Exit Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 25329 Catalog Code: ANR2/3 Country: Japan		Price: $19.95 In Stock
Under-recorded but legendary Japanese free improvising saxophonist Aishi Oyauchi in a double CD, performing on alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, and piano through 52 untitled and inventive pieces, from a few seconds in length to several minutes, presented as 7 composite tracks; part of the Armageddon Nova Series exploring radical free improvisation.
	Various Artists: Lao Dan / Rick Countryman / Colin Webster: Saxophone Anatomy Label: Armageddon Nova Product Code: 25328 Catalog Code: AN R-6 Country: Japan		Price: $14.95 In Stock
Saxophone solo improvisation omnibus by three free saxophonists from around the globe: Lao Dan from China recording in an underground bomb shelter in an agressive solo performance; US ex-pat Rick Countryman from the Philippines in a traditional yet extremely free jazz exposition; and London's Colin Webster on baritone sax for an exploration of extended techniques.
	Fujii, Satoko Orchestra New York: Fukushima Label: Libra Product Code: 25243 Catalog Code: 214-044 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Diverse aspects of the 2011 disaster at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant brought on by a tsunami orchestrated in sound by composer/pianist Satoko Fujii and rendered in remarkable ways from some of New York finest improvisers, including Tony Malaby, Ellery Eskelin, Oscar Noriega, Herb Roberts, Joe Fiedler, Stomu Takeishi, Nels Cline, &c &c.
	Machida, Yoshio / Constantin Papageorgiadis: Music from the SYNTHI 100 Label: Amorfon Product Code: 24994 Catalog Code: YM1701 Country: Japan		Price: $13.95 In Stock
Japanese artist Yoshio Machida and Belgian artist Constantin Papageorgiadis recorded these 12 tracks on an EMS Synthi 100 keyboard, a modular analogue/digital hybrid synth designed in 1971 of which 31 were constructed, this one being on loan from Gent University in Belgium, here manipulated without keyboards to create these rich electronic "Generations" and "Experiments".
	Walk With The Penguin: Charm Label: Amorfon Product Code: 24993 Catalog Code: amorfon017 Country: Japan		Price: $13.95 In Stock
Japanese steelpan player Yoshio Machida leads this pan-national pop band in their second album, blending electronics and popular forms of music referencing and using electronic and acoustic rock, funk, synthpop, and spoken word, with the majority of the band Serbian artists, and guest musicians including Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (Jim O'Rourke), Paranel, and Misha.
	Various Artists: Asian Meeting Recordings #1 Label: Doubtmusic Product Code: 24987 Catalog Code: dmf-170 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
Otomo Yoshihide started The Asian Meeting Festival in 2005 to foster creative interaction between Japanese and other Asian musicians, since 2014 curated by DJ Sniff, and here in the 2017 edition at GOK Sound, in Tokyo, Japan with a who's-who of players including Yoshihide, Ryoko Ono, Ko Ishikawa, Son X, KEITO, Yuji Ishihara, Yuen Chee Wai, &c. &c.
	Fujii, Satoko Quartet (w/ Natsuki Tamura / Keisuke Ohta / Takashi Itani): Live at Jazz Room Cortez Label: Cortez Sound Product Code: 24882 Catalog Code: Cortez Sound 0005 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Presenting a different line-up from the 2001 debut of Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii's Quartet, remaining is trumpeter Natsuka Tamura, with Keisuke Ohta on violin and Takashi Itani on drums, performing evolving and rich collective improvisation with a strange edge, captured live at the Jazz Room Cortez in Mito, Japan in 2016 for two extended and bewitching sets.
	Smith, Wadada Leo / Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii / Ikue Mori: Aspiration Label: Libra Product Code: 24881 Catalog Code: 204-043 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 Out of Stock
Pianist/composer Satoko Fujii's "Aspiration" brings together four masterful improvisers and innovators--trumpeters Wadada Leo Smith and Natsuki Tamura, and Downtown NY laptop player Ikue Mori--for an album of exciting and exceptional free playing over compositions from Fujii, Tamura, and one collective composition, a brilliant pinnacle of creative music.
	Suzuki, Akio / John Butcher: Immediate Landscapes Label: Ftarri Product Code: 24828 Catalog Code: ftarri-987 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
At the same event in Scotland that John Butcher recorded his excellent "Resonant Spaces" album, he also joined forces with sound artist Akio Suzuki on a variety of objects and sound devices to record the first 5 tracks of this unusual album of very free improv, the last track by the duo recording at the 2015 Ftarri Festival at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo.
	Fujii, Satoko / Natsuki Tamura: Kisaragi Label: Libra Product Code: 24529 Catalog Code: 102-042 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
On their 5th album together, pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura push the limits on approach and technique with their instruments, creating otherworldly and captivating improvisations, both players deciding against using "normal instrumental sounds", instead using preparations and textural approaches to create truly unique music.
	Gato Libre (Fujii / Tamura / Kaneko): Neko Label: Libra Product Code: 24528 Catalog Code: 103-040 Country: Japan		Price: $15.95 In Stock
Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura's Gato Libre in its 5th album brings a beautiful light-through-the-leaves melodic melancholy to their unhurried pace, now the trio of Tamura, Satoko Fujii on accordion, and Yasuko Kaneko on trombone, as the cats on the cover stop to find allure in the late day while bringing profound and introspective music to our ears.
	Nakamura, Toshimaru / Jun Numata: The First Album Label: Doubtmusic Product Code: 24251 Catalog Code: dmf-169 Country: Japan		Price: $16.95 In Stock
A duo improvisation recorded at Shichoshitsu Jinbo-cho, in Tokyo, Japan between no-input mixing electracoustic improviser Toshimaru Nakamura and Doubtmusic label leader and member of mn and MNK, Jun Numata on guitar, oscilator, radio, in a varied and turbulent affair of extreme electronics, sound and noise that takes the listener on a wild ride.
	Korekyojinn Acoustic: Kaleidoscope Label: Magaibutsu Limited Product Code: 24033 Catalog Code: MGC-53 Country: Japan		Price: $14.95 Out of Stock
The Korekyojin trio of Tatsuya Yoshida on percussion, Kido Natsuki on guitar and Mitsuru Nasuno on fretless bass, plus violinist Miyamoto Rei on several tracks, take their intricate and exuberant rock into acoustic territory with this impressive album, which includes acoustic takes on "Arabesque", "Careless Heart", "Four Holes in the Sky", &c.