Preview track from the Mesh-Key reissue of Aunt Sally's 1979 s/t LP.
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https://auntsallyjapan.bandcamp.com/album/aunt-sally

This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fronted by experimental singer Phew, was first released by the iconic Vanity Records label in 1979. Over the past forty-plus years, Phew has forged a singular path through a wide range of styles - from free improvisation to pop - and has collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, members of Can, DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Raincoats and more. But Aunt Sally is where she got her start and, despite the members’ young ages (still in college at the time), Phew and the band delivered a mature, timeless take on minimalistic punk. Remastered from the original analog tapes, this fully authorized reissue includes a bonus 7-inch with unreleased live material. The album is packaged in a heavy, tip-on jacket from Stoughton, and is housed in a double-sided, printed inner sleeve.

Aunt Sally - Subete Urimono

Mori No Uta (excerpt)

Dada (excerpt)

Winter Song (excerpt)

Seiteki Ningen (excerpt)

Yasai (excerpt)

Bye Bye (excerpt)

Kako Otoko (excerpt)

Baachan No Baajin De Ittemiyoo (Metal Mix) (excerpt)

Meiken Bataakenkun Gou Den (excerpt)

Wa, Wa, Wa (excerpt)

01 SUGITA HI NO

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https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/

Phew “Light Sleep” LP (MKY020)

Propulsive rhythms from early drum machines, whirring electronics and dreamlike vocals make for a jaw-dropping late-career masterpiece from legendary Japanese musician Phew, recorded solo at Phew’s home in Tokyo. 

Phew’s career began in the late 1970s as lead singer of Osaka punk group Aunt Sally (whose only full-length was released by Vanity Records in 1979). Ryuichi Sakamoto produced her first solo release in 1980, a two-song single, and in 1981 Pass Records released her debut album, a bonafide classic recorded with original Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit at Conny Plank’s studio in Germany. She’s forged a singular path over the past thirty-plus years, collaborating with folks from DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten, Boredoms, Anton Fier, Bill Laswell and more. It’s borderline sacrilegious to compare an artist as unique as Phew with anyone else, but for those unfamiliar with her work, “Light Sleep” might be described as a more animated Nico singing (in Japanese) for early Suicide. 

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M, Berlin 
Full color jackets and inserts 
40 minutes running time 
Edition of 500

New World (preview)

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https://shintarosakamoto.bandcamp.com/

After 20+ years with psych legends Yura Yura Teikoku, Shintaro Sakamoto’s third solo album is a bonafide masterpiece of warped steel guitar, ambient disco and AOR soul. Vinyl release on Mesh-Key out mid-July.

“Perfectionist pop for the extraterrestrial bachelor pad.”  Spin
“Like a language of Sakamoto’s own…made with a ship-in-the-bottle-like focus.”  Pitchfork
“Love if Possible is the pay-attention-moment. Not enough know. More should know.”  Under The Radar

できれば愛を [Disc 1]

Another Planet

Living legend Phew follows up her brilliant Light Sleep album with another masterwork - Voice Hardcore - comprised entirely of her iconic, instantly recognizable voice, twisted, folded and layered over six mesmerizing tracks.

“A woozy, opiate-soaked stumble into a sparse dreamworld” - The Wire Magazine

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