Originally released in 2001 on the Magaibutsu label, the 3rd studio album from Japan's Koenjihyakkei led by drummer/vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya energetically blends progressive rock, chamber rock, fusion and composed forms, here revisited for the 2nd time with the 2009 expanded reissue remixed again with new additions, plus three bonus tracks from a 2020 concert.
Save $1.50
In Stock
Quantity in Basket: None
Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units
Sample The Album:
Yoshida Tatsuya-drums, vocal
High Rider Jin-guitar
Sakamoto Kengo-bass, vocal
Oguchi Kenichi-keyboards
Sagara Nami-soprano
Keiko Komori-soprano sax, bass clariTatsuya Yoshida-drums, vocals
High Rider Jin-guitar
Sakamoto Kengo-bass, vocals
Oguchi Kenichi-keyboards
Sagara Nami-soprano
Keiko Komori-soprano sax, bass clarinet
Yabuki Taku-keyboards
Ahmed Abdullahmed Abdullah-vocals
Kei Koganemaru-guitar, vocalsnet
Yabuki Taku-keyboards
Ahmed Abdullahmed Abdullah-vocals
Kei Koganemaru-guitar, vocals
Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.
UPC: 647216614722
Label: Skin Graft Records
Catalog ID: CD-GRA-147
Squidco Product Code: 32916
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2023
Country: Japan/USA
Packaging: CD Six-Panel Gatefold Jacket
Originally recorded in 2001 by Yoshida Tatsuya. Additional recordings in 2009 at Magaibutsu Studios, Japan. Live Tracks (10,11,12) recorded at Club Goodman on August 5th, 2020.
Years after its original 2001 release, band leader Yoshida Tatsuya and the current Koenjihyakkei line-up (as heard on "Dhorimvishka") returned to the "Nivraym" master recordings and went to work - adding new flourishes, additional overdubs and re-recorded drum tracks.
"After years of working with Tatsuya's (other band) Ruins, Skin Graft released Koenjihyakkei's fourth album Angherr Shisspa in 2005. Then they brought their first, second and third albums out internationally." - comments Mark Fischer of Skin Graft Records. "In 2018, Koenjhyakkei returned to great acclaim with album number five Dhorimviskha, which we followed up with a vinyl release of Angherr Shisspa. Skin Graft Records brings back the third album under the title "Nivraym (Revisited)". It's received an extensive overhaul since its original Japanese release. When the 2023 version is compared to the 2001 original, it is a huge difference".
The album has been remixed, remastered and resequenced for this revolutionary revisitation - the band's purest, most uncompromising expression of Zeuhl music to date; blending progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion and neoclassicism with the energy of hardcore punk, the volume of metal and the attitude of rock in opposition.
Also available on vinyl LP.Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Keiko Komori Keiko Komori: "I play the clarinet and saxophone in Tokyo. Member of KOENJI HYAKKEI and more." ^ Hide Bio for Keiko Komori
4/17/2024
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
Track Listing:
1. Nivraym 5:36
2. Becttem Pollt 5:18
3. Lussesoggi Zomn 10:26
4. Mederro Passquirr 6:20
5. Maschtervoz 4:07
6. Axall Hasck 6:32
7. Vissqaguell 5:28
8. Vallczeremdoss 4:50
9. Gassttrumm 9:21
Live At Club Goodman
10. Becttem Pollt 5:16
11. Nirvaym 7:47
12. Axall Hasck 8:09
Rock and Related
Progressive Rock
RIO (Rock in Opposition)
Improvised Music
Improvised Rock
Magaibutsu
Japanese & Asian Improv/Rock
Jazz Reissues
Staff Picks & Recommended Items
New in Rock Forms
Search for other titles on the label:
Skin Graft Records.
 | Koenjihyakkei Nivraym Revisted [VINYL COLORED 2 LPs] (Skin Graft Records) |
| Originally released in 2001 on the Magaibutsu label, the 3rd studio album from Japan's Koenjihyakkei led by drummer/vocalist Yoshida Tatsuya energetically blends progressive rock, chamber rock, fusion and composed forms, here revisited for the 2nd time with the 2009 expanded reissue remixed again with new additions, plus three bonus tracks from a 2020 concert. | |
 | Taylor, Cecil Quintet (feat. Harri Sjostrom / Tristan Honsinger / Teppo Hauta-aho / Paul Lovens) Lifting The Bandstand (Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!)) |
| Though not well documented, free jazz legendary pianist Cecil Taylor's working band for 3 years in the late nineties was this quintet of Harri Sjostrom on soprano saxophone, Tristan Honsinger on cello, Teppo Hauta-aho on double bass, and Paul Lovens on drums, cymbals & gongs, heard in this energetic concert at Tampere Jazz Happening in Finland, 2018. | |
 | VocColours / Yoichiro Kita Live in Japan (Creative Sources) |
| A strange album of vocal improvisation from the the VocCoulours quartet of Brigitte Kuepper, Gala Gabriele Hummel, Norbert Zajac, and Iouri Grankin, performing live with Koichi Makigami on (voice & theremin), Yoichiro Kita (trumpet & laptop), Keiko Komori (bass clarinet), and Morgan Fisher (keyboards & toys); a truly unique album of startling utterance, texture, and environment. | |
 | Kazuhisa, Uchihashi / Yoshida Tatsuya Improvisations 4 [DVD AUDIO + IMAGES] (Magaibutsu) |
| The 4th improvisation release of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Koenji, &c) and guitarist Uchihasi Kazuhisa (Altered States) is a DVD audio release presenting 36 remarkable live tracks from 6 concerts recorded 2004-2012. | |
 | Uchihashi, Kazuhisa / Tatsuya Yoshida Improvisations 3 [DVD] (Magaibutsu Limited) |
| Guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa (Altered States, Ground Zero) and drummer Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Koenji Hyakkei) return for a 3rd duo release, a DVD & CD of their amazing improvisations. | |
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought:
 | Fowler, Chad / George Cartwright / Christopher Parker / Kelley Hurt / Luke Stewart / Steve Hirsh / ZA Miserere (Mahakala Music) |
| A septet bridging generations of improvisers from Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, DC, Minnesota, and NY, from Chad Fowler (sax & flute), George Cartwright (sax & guitar), Christopher Parker (piano), Kelley Hurt (voice), Luke Stewart (bass), Steve Hirsh (drums), and guest tenor saxophonist Zoh Amba, in four works reflecting our turbulent times, plus a tribute to Davey Williams. | |
 | bBb (Martin Kuchen / Ola Rubin) Animal Quotes (Relative Pitch) |
| Quirky in a masterful display of instrumental skill from the Swedish duo of soprano saxophonist Martin Küchen and trombonist Ola Rubin (Swedish Fix, Lazy Rude Monk), using every inch of their instruments along with mutes, percussion and percussive emanations, creating a virtual menagerie of animalistic sounds alongside dexterous lines. | |
 | Butcher / Charbin / Kanngiesser / Prevost The Art Of Noticing (Matchless) |
| "To celebrate drummer/percussionist Eddie Prévost's 80th birthday, Café Oto hosted four concerts once a week in June, 2022, each a differing configuration from Prévost's history; this 2nd concert brings together Prévost, Marjolaine Charbin (piano), Ute Kanngiesser (cello) and John Butcher (sax), the same group that recorded the contemporary album Sounds of Assembly on the Meena label. | |
 | Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere Theta Six (Discus) |
| Referencing the "laminal" style of AMM improvisations, the 6th album from the UK-based Orchesta of the Upper Atmosphere ensemble, led by multi-instrumentalist and woodwind player Martin Archer and Jan Todd, evolved from studio sessions of bass rhythms, free improvisation over those foundations, and then horn & voice arrangements shaped around the results, creating a superb hybrid of jazz rock, textural and free improv. | |
 | Lowe, Allen And The Constant Sorrow Orchestra America: The Rough Cut (ESP-Disk) |
| Saxophonist Allen Lowe's statement on American music and American song form across the many genres and styles that make up the terrain, including jazz, the blues, gospel, honky tonk, heavy metal, hillbilly/minstrel song & medicine shows, &c.; diverse forms of popular music that reflect a commingled society, as Lowe blurs the sacred and the profane with a stellar ensemble of musicians. | |
 | Coleman, Ornette Ornette At 12, Crisis & Man On The Moon, Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd) |
| Reissuing and remastering two Impulse! albums from saxophonist Ornette Coleman: 1969's Ornette At 12 with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and his then 12-year-old son Denardo on drums; 1972's Crisis adding Don Cherry on trumpet; and a lesser-known 1969 EP, Man On The Moon, with electronics from Dr. Emmanuel Ghent and Ed Blackwell on drums. | |
 | Freed, Moss / Union Division Micromotives [2 CDs] (Discus) |
| Seeking new methods of performing real-time collective composition through improvisation, composer & guitarist Moss Freed developed a language of hand signals that could be used among a large ensemble with instructions to guide players towards particular activities, heard in this spectacular set of seven improvisations, each named for an iconic improviser or composer. | |
 | Zorn, John (w/ Lage / Roeder / Wollesen) New Masada Quartet, Volume Two (Tzadik) |
| LOWER PRICE! Taking on another set of compositions from John Zorn's Masada Songbook, the New and electrified Masada quartet of Kenny Wollesen on drums, Julian Lage on guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass and Zorn himself on alto saxophone releases their second volume, seven melodically rich and intricate works that lead to incredible, often burning soloing and group interchange. | |
 | King Ubu Orchestru 2021 Roi (FMR) |
| Originally formed in 1985, this free improv ensemble continues in a new rendition of the Örchestrü, with original members Mark Charig (cornet), Paul Lytton (percussion), Alfred Zimmerlin (cello) and Phillipp Wachsmann (violin) joined by new members including Axel Dorner (trumpet), Phil Minton (voice), and Melvyn Poore (tuba), for two exceptional examples of advanced collective and cooperative improvisation. | |
 | Baker, Duck Contra Costa Dance (Confront) |
| In 1980 Duck Baker's first label deal had expired and the label changed direction, as did Baker himself from arranging traditional tunes into compositions for improvisation; still, these well-recorded demos from 1982 held an appeal through song selection and a uniquely edgy yet lyrical approach to his playing, now finally released to the public 40 years later. | |
 | Lih Kadim (Jaka Berger / Marko Jenic / Jure Borsic / Andre Bost Ruda / Jost Drasler / Vid Drasler) Sunday Sextet (FMR) |
| With shared background in Slovik groups and ensembles including work with Szilárd Mezei and the Olfamoštvo ensemble, the Lih Kadim sextet of electroacoustic improvisers is heard in an exceptional 2021 concert of innovative and exploratory interaction, each recording taken from a successive night performing at the Cultural Centre, Bistrica Ob Sotli in Slovenia. | |
 | Fowler, Chad / William Parker / Anders Griffen Broken Unbroken (Mahakala Music) |
| Led by New York wind and reed player Chad Fowler, who performs here on stritch, saxello & alto flute, this collective free jazz album brings together frequent collaborators, bassist William Parker (with whom Fowler plays in Dopolarians) and drummer & trumpeter Anders Griffen (heard on Thinking Unthinking and the Music of Frank Lowe) for two extended improvisations from contemplative to assertive. | |
 | Fowler, Chad / William Parker / Anders Griffen Thinking Unthinking (Mahakala Music) |
| Focusing on lyrically inclined grooves with a relaxed pace, the details and thoughtfully "unthought" playing from the NY trio of Chad Fowler on stritch, saxello & alto flute, William Parker on bass and Anders Griffen on drums, are heard in the Park West Studios in Brooklyn for three extended collective improvisations of passionate, expressive and empathetic playing. | |
 | Kuchen / Fernandez / Kaucic The Steps That Resonate (Not Two) |
| Uniquely orchestrated with all three members bringing a trove of objects & percussion, the trio of Martin Küchen on saxophones, Agustí Fernández on piano and Zlatko Kaučič on drums are heard in this two-part live concert at BUMF festival in Smartno, Slovenia, for a superb example of intent listening and use of space around confident, stunningly creative & virtuosic playing. | |
 | Lee, Charmaine / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Gabby Fluke-Mogul / Joanna Mattrey / Weston Olencki Live in Accord [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Notice Recordings) |
| Four configurations of far-reaching free improv at Notice Recordings's 2021 event in Accord, NY: a solo performance by Charmain Lee on voice & electronics; a duo between Lee and Weston Olnecki on synths & trombone; a trio from Gabby Fluke-Mogul on violin, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and Joanna Mattrey on viola; a duo between Lonberg-Holm and Olencki. | |
 | Mela, Francisco / Zoh Amba Causa y Efecto Vol. 1 [VINYL] (577 Records) |
| The first volume of powerful free playing and intimate conversation bringing together two New York-based improvisers, Cuban native drummer/percussionist Francisco Mela and Tennessee native reed & wind player Zoh Amba, both sharing a mountain region upbringing that brings a uniquely reflective quality to their playing, fortified by the exploratory NY improv scene. | |
 | Parker, Christopher / The Band of Guardian Angels Soul Food (Mahakala Music) |
| An open and free album of modern jazz evoking loft-style collective improvisation but controlled under the compositions of pianist Christopher Parker, in his debut album as a leader with the incredibly talented sextet of Kelley Hurt on vocals, Daniel Carter on winds, Jaimie Branch on trumpet, William Parker on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums | |
 | Ullen, Lisa / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund Space (Relative Pitch) |
| The debut of this thoroughly modern piano trio from Sweden of pianist Lisa Ullen, bassist Elsa Bergman and drummer Anna Lund, merging traditional and free jazz forms along with influences from contemporary compositional music, approaching their collective music using a diverse set of strategies and techniques that yield a spectrum of captivating conversations. | |
 | A Pride of Lions (McPhee / Lazro / Abrams / Seguron / Taylor) No Questions - No Answers (RogueArt) |
| The 3rd meeting of the transatlantic quintet of Joe McPhee on alto & soprano saxophones and pocket trumpet, Daunik Lazro on tenor & baritone saxophones, Joshua Abrams on double bass & guembri, Guillaume Seguron on double bass and Chad Taylor on drums & mbira is heard in this exceptional 2018 concert at the International Jazzfestival Saalfelden in Salzburg, Austria. | |
 | Big Bad Brotzmann Quintet Bambule! (Euphorium) |
| An intense concert of collective European Free Jazz in two extended improvisations recorded at naTo in Leipzig, German in 2019 from the quintet of Peter Brotzmann on tenor saxophone, clarinet & tarogato, Oliver Schwerdt on grand piano, percussion & little instruments, John Edwards and John Eckhardt on double bass, and Christian Lillinger on drums & percussion. | |
 | Tsahar, Assif / William Parker / Hamid Drake In Between The Tumbling A Stillness [VINYL] (Hopscotch Records) |
| A fierce free jazz concert recorded live at Levontin 7, in Tel Aviv by three players with a long history of collaboration and dynamic trio settings, from Israeli saxophonist formerly based in NYC Assif Tsahar, bassist William Parker and Chicago drummer Hamid Drake, in two extended, energetic and inventive improvisations and a concise closing "Stillness". | |
