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Teddy And His Patches Suzy Creamcheese

A Shitty Cover of the Awesome Malibus track heard on "Back from the Grave Volume 1", done Quickly with garage band and some low budget tools. 

Cry (over Her)- (Malibus Cover)

If I Could Fly - One Direction (Cover)

Download for free here: https://cacophonoussilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/1-reissue

An EP recorded entirely by one person, this album was influenced by many bands, from Satan's Satyrs to The Yardbirds, and is somewhat diverse. With the combined influences of Garage Rock, Stoner Metal, Blues Rock, and Psychedelic music, lmr hopes to provide you with hours of listening pleasure with their debut EP #1.

The October 2016 EP from excellent Stoner Metal musician and Nolan's buddy lmr (aka Loki), reissued with two brand-new demos to commemorate Loki Rodriguez joining the Mewtang crew. Congrats, Loki! Enjoy this EP (because I know you will).

Last Time Around (The Del-Vetts cover)

Music for Nine Post Cards

Dance PM

Ice Copy

Clouds

Water Copy

Dream

Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

Blink

View from My Window

Urban Snow

Soto Wa Ame - Rain out of Window

All That Must Be

Siren Calls

Order on vinyl / CD or digital formats: https://BBEmusic.lnk.to/J-Jazz
In the years following the World War Two, Japan developed one of the most insatiable, dynamic and diverse markets for jazz. For a crucial period of little over a decade - from the late 1960s to the early 1980s - Japanese jazz culture progressed at an astonishing rate, producing an extraordinary array of artists, recordings and record labels that created some of the most forward thinking and impressive jazz to be committed to tape. This amazing journey is explored on ‘J Jazz’.
This compilation from BBE uncovers some of the most sought after and rare material from this period and pulls together key artists who shaped the post- war modern jazz scene in Japan.

Koichi Matsukaze Trio - Earth Mother

Order on vinyl / CD or digital formats: https://bbemusic.lnk.to/J-Jazz
In the years following World War Two, Japan developed one of the most insatiable, dynamic and diverse markets for jazz. For a crucial period of little over a decade – from the late 1960s to the early 1980s – Japanese jazz culture progressed at an astonishing rate, producing an extraordinary array of artists, recordings and record labels that created some of the most forward thinking and impressive jazz to be committed to tape. This amazing journey is explored on ‘J Jazz’.
This compilation from BBE uncovers some of the most sought after and rare material from this period and pulls together key artists who shaped the post-war modern jazz scene in Japan.

‘J Jazz’ includes obscure and sought after rarities like the bass-driven power jazz of Koichi Matsukaze’s ‘Earth Mother’, the holy grail rarity of Aizawa Tohru Quartet’s ‘Dead Letter’ and the loping majesty of Takeo Moriyama’s ‘North Wind’. This collection takes the listener into deep spiritual jazz, post-modal impressionism and fierce dance-floor fusion with material from artists and composers whose names are generally only known to committed collectors of Japanese jazz. Fumio Karashima, Mitsuaki Katayama, Takeo Moriyama and Kiyoshi Sugimoto are among the names featured on an album aiming to shed a little light on the shadowy world of Japanese jazz clubs, tucked away in the neon backstreets. This music demands a wider audience and BBE are excited to deliver a landmark compilation, lifting the veil on this wonderful and mysterious area of the global jazz catalogue.

None of the tracks featured on ‘J Jazz’ have ever received an official release outside Japan before. The albums the tracks are taken from are extremely hard to find and often fetch huge sums on the collector’s circuit. Originally pressed in small numbers on independent and private labels such as Union, Johnny’s Disk, Whynot, ALM and VAP, these tracks are now available for everyone to enjoy.

Compiled by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden, both long-time collectors of Japanese jazz, ’J Jazz’ brings together the very best in modern jazz from Japan, recorded during a critical period of musical and cultural transition that saw composers and musicians not only assert a new artistic identity but also create a lasting musical legacy.

Eiji Nakayama – Aya’s Samba

Fumio Karashima – Little Island

Available on vinyl, CD and digital formats: https://bbemusic.lnk.to/Tachibana
The desire to discover and delve into new and unexplored areas of music has turned attention on the Japanese jazz scene of the 1970s, often regarded as its gilded age. The recent ground-breaking sell-out BBE compilation J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969-1984 threw much needed light on this fascinating era and presented a range of artists and music that surprised and delighted all who heard it. A key track on the compilation was one of the rarest and least known: Dead Letter by the Tohru Aizawa Quartet, taken from ‘Tachibana’, an album so elusive that some pondered whether it even existed.

The album, Tachibana, was recorded in 1975 and, until included on the J Jazz compilation, was unknown except to a small group of obsessive Japanese jazz collectors.  The privately pressed record was the only album made by the Quartet, four amateur musicians who were university students at the time. The session was financed by a local businessman, Ikujiroh Tachibana, who pressed up a few hundred copies to use as a business card. In the intervening 40 odd years since its recording, few copies have surfaced, making it an in-demand yet elusive artefact from the golden age of Japanese jazz. BBE Records are honoured to present a fully authorised reissue of this holy grail, licensed directly from the band themselves.

Tachibana has all the necessary components of a cult album: pressed in small numbers, a few mysterious and vague details about its origins, languishing in obscurity for decades and, above all, superb musical craftsmanship and skill. It can now be enjoyed by a new audience around the world.
The album opens with the dynamic percussion work-out Philosopher’s Stone written by the then law-student and drummer Tetsuya Morimura. It propels along with the band at full pelt, showcasing Morimura’s well-developed drumming style. For a teenage amateur player to compose and perform such an accomplished and impressive piece is a testament to the talent that the band contained. Philosopher’s Stone is followed by Sacrament, an epic modal composition by saxophonist Kyoichiro Morimura that fans of Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders and late-era John Coltrane will appreciate. After an extended intro the band drop into a heavy, churning groove, Morimura’s saxophone scorching above the volcanic rhythm section.
Dead Letter, written by Aizawa himself, is an epic piano led symphony of spiritual jazz. Think McCoy Tyner at his imperial finest and you’ll get a flavour: impact, emotion and power all suffuse to create a overwhelming experience. Amazingly, this is still the only Aizawa composition yet to be recorded.
The Tachibana album also includes two cover versions, both Latin flavoured numbers delivered with élan and brio: La Fiesta by Chick Corea and the classic Samba de Orfeu by Luiz Bonfá.

So, just five tracks in total, the sole existing evidence of an astonishing band, the Tohru Aizawa Quartet.

The long-awaited reissue of this mythic album will include new liner notes and photos, plus fully translated notes from the original Japanese text. The album will be presented in an authentic thick card gatefold sleeve in a faithful reproduction of the original sleeve design.

Tohru Aizawa Quartet - Dead Letter

J4TB Intro Ursula Rucker & Vanessa Freeman

1. DFA - 11 days left to live
2. Darand Land - As I Submerse
3. Mike Huckaby - Change
4. Patrice Scott, Butch Haynes - Ghost ego (Interpretation)
5. Chaos In The CBD - Pressure 
6. Ron Trent - Blazzin (Original Mix)
7. Aracil - Kaoyama (Agatha Pher Remix)
8. Dj Aakmael feat: Esquire - Deepermoments E.P (Breathe Deep)
9. Central - Doing This - Help Recordings
10 Thatmanmonkz, Nikki-O - Ooh Wee (Norm Talley Remix)
11. Marcelo Cruz & Joe Rizla - Fresh
12. Anthony Nicholson - Distorted Mind 
13. Nasty Boy - Southern Side 
14. DFA - Cyclic Subspace
15. Terry Tester - Zaw
16. Daniel Maunick - Archangel
17. Jad  - The - Pollock Street Blues 
18. Jesus Gonsev - Drift
19. Nasty Boy - Take A Moment 
20. Dj Spinna - Imagine Freedom 
21. Kai Alce - Get Loose (NDATL Instrumental)
22. Nasty Boy - Reshape
23. DFA - Loner
24. Life Recorder - Inside Feelings
25. C.K - Accelerer
26. Jihad Muhammad - Excursions 
27. Matthieu Faubourg - I've Never Been To Tokyo 
28. Atjazz - Moment (Refix)
29. Kareem Ali - Nightwaves
30. 6th Borough Project - Release - Jad & The Remix 
31. Carnatt B - I.M.F
32. VIncent Floyd - Casandras Dream
33. Larry Heard, Loosefingers - Flashback
34. Demetrio Giannice - Deepness
35. Shintaro Quintet - A Blind Man - J-Jazz (Deep Modern Jazz from Japan 1969-1984) - bbe Records

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