Abadía - Epitafio

'Straight from the Throat' is available at https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-straight-from-the-throat-lp/, and as part of the Kazuki Tomokawa CD box set at
https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-kazuki-tomokawa-1975-1977/.

In the 1970s, Kazuki Tomokawa catapulted into Tokyo’s avant-garde scene with his cathartic and utterly electrifying performances. Straight from the Throat, Tomokawa’s second album, released in July 1976 by Harvest Records, finds the musician in his truest form: as the “screaming philosopher” he would come to be called—cynical but fair, cheeky and melancholic, and looking at the world with truth-seeking eyes. 

In Straight from the Throat, Tomokawa shrieks and shouts and wallows with ritualistic abandon—his avant-folk stylings are cosmic and, at times, swell to ground-shaking rock. He speaks of adolescence, passing hearses, and wedding chapel cars in a poem to his younger brother, Tomoharu, and watches ice melt on the Mitane River with spring’s turn. Tomokawa’s sound is, as Kiichi Takahara would later dub it, “I-music”: revelatory and deeply intimate songs that turn to the everyday and the interior. They are portraits of a man in search of meaning, who is taking stubborn control of his life by doing so. As he croons in “The Spring Is Here Again Song,” “I’ll drink till I’ve had my fill / And fall in love until I die.”

Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950) is a prolific singer-songwriter from Hachiryu Village (now the town of Mitane) in the Akita Prefecture area of northern Japan. Since his first release in 1975, he has recorded more than thirty albums. The 2010 documentary about his life, La Faute des Fleurs, won the Sound & Vision award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and that same year saw the Japanese release of the book Dreams Die Vigorously Day by Day, a collection of his lyrics spanning forty years. His most recent albums are Vengeance Bourbon (2014) and Gleaming Crayon (2016), both on the Modest Launch label.

Kazuki Tomokawa - Footbridge

°It's close to midnight
I'm not sleeping tonight
Cuz my time has come
Here in the twilight°

DRACULA

Inferno

Where The Bough Has Broken

Plack Blague - Just Another Man of the Street

Music Video premiere:
http://www.out.com/music/2017/5/26/plack-blague-nebraskas-leather-daddy-dance-freaks

From the album titled NIGHT TRAX.
Ormolykca Records
plackblague.com
plackblague.bandcamp.com
ormolycka.com

Just Another Man Of The Street

Devour

Deprivation

EBM - INSEKT- NITZER EBB - U.M.M. - STURM CAFE - LAIBACH - FRONT 242 - CONTAINER 90 - FADERHEAD - COMBAT  COMPANY - NEXT GENERATION

Setmix_EBM

Digital hosting of the PL 7" lathe release that never surfaced outside of the Angels in America fan-club. Features a wonderful cover of the Coil class , "Cold Cell".

Mastered by Jack Callahan.

A. Duck Ernst

Artiste : @krikorparis
Compilation : From Above Vol. 2
Label : @lumierenoirerecords
Sortie : 20/03/2020
Acheter : https://bit.ly/3d9E5kF
Bandcamp (LP série limitée) : https://bit.ly/2wb19PB

DRACULA

Wempusa

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