Name: ノワール · マーティの「ツクエ」 by Marty Noir in Deserves More April Alternative Rock
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Description: "Desk" by Marty Noir is dark, brooding, synth, drum machine, guitar plus Japanese vocals!

Deserves More April Alternative Rock

City Of Light (feat. Alva)

A new version of Morning star.

Here you are
Right before my face
The morning star
Shines up the place

So easy
Without a cause
Glittering eyes

Where are you from
You shine up the place
The morning star
Heats up my face

So easy
Without a cause
Glittering eyes

Morning Star(Rem - 21)

Jason from Collate on the solo-tip. If you've ever wondered what the energy of Portland weird post-punk would sound like divided, this is it! One vein of the whole leaf, one strain of the whole genus. This growth is  organic, no need to treat it!

Somewhere between the Desperate Bicycles and Kleenex, rummaging through practice space debris to record on 8-track over previous demos. Tape hiss and crunchy bassline, sinister finishing and panicky cymbal crashes. 

Get it!

Unconditional EP

Stream 7-inch

CDG - "Audiophiles" (2021)

A cover of one of my favorite tracks from the Violator album. Bring your chains.

Bridge percussion by Robothought @dustin-sether-312712390

Halo (a Depeche Mode cover)

Fallen Satellite - Going Down (The Baggy Remix)

"Desk" by Marty Noir is dark, brooding, synth, drum machine, guitar plus Japanese vocals!

Out of the Water

ツクエ

ノワール · マーティの「ツクエ」

Mother Natures Son

Modern Mirror

Out of Sequence

Holygram - Remixed

Still There (Dreamed by Box and the Twins)

Don't Shy Away

Half Silences

While remaining predominantly unknown except amongst die-hard collectors, Portray Heads has proven to be one of the best kept secrets of the Japanese electronic underground. Tohru Tomita (冨田徹) formed Portray Heads in 1984 in Matsuyama City, the capital of Shikoku Island, with fellow band members Ayumi Tokunaga (徳永あゆみ) and Mikiharu Doi (土居幹治), just after dissolving his solo bedroom project Onanie Bazooka. The trio entered the studio in August that same year and recorded several songs. Two songs from the recorded sessions were released as the band's debut 7" single, a flexi entitled Elaborate Dummy — a lost classic — on Kobe's now defunct Kageroh Records.

Soon after the Elaborate Dummy release, Ayumi, the band's vocalist, departed and Portray Heads worked on recruiting a replacement. They tried several vocalists until, finally, they found Yumi Ochi (越智由美) - who was a perfect fit. She joined the band and the trio went back into the studio between February and April 1986 and recorded Oratorio, their second and final release. They self-released it on cassette in October and as a 7" in December that same year.

As the band was based in a conservative and isolated city, Portray Heads rarely had the opportunity to perform live and eventually disbanded with their two releases quietly becoming collector's items. Upon making contact, band leader Tohru Tomita revealed to us two unheard demo recordings, one from each vocalist featured on their records. These recordings are not merely disposable studio experiments, but actually rival or surpass in quality the group’s released music. With this double LP, Minimal Wave Records and Bitter Lake Recordings present to you the recorded discography of one of the most overlooked and underrated minimal synth projects coming out of Japan in the 1980s.

https://minimalwave.com/releases/release/portray-heads/

https://portrayheads.bandcamp.com/album/portray-heads

Portray Heads

Portray Heads - Elaborate Dummy

Take it slow, day by day, do your best and the best will come. Love your worst, because it’s you. It’s your journey, live it well.

Baby Steps

1979, "𝑱𝒐𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 - 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆" 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒚  𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 ... 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆...𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆... !!! 
𝑵𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕...𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌... 07/28/2020 𝒂 𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌... 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖... ???

"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."  

-Antoine de Saint Exupéry

ノワール · マーティの「ツクエ」

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