#Pinakotheca

[zef-zef]

Another day of Japanse Music @ Zef Roaming around in my Japanse music collection, revisting some Japanese albums that i haven't heared in a long time, and enjoying a few new discoveries.

Ippu-Do - Night Mirage (Epic, 1983) Keiji Haino - Watashi Dake (Pinakotheca, 1981) Merzbow vs Nordvargr - Partikel (Cold Spring, 2004) Ayami Suzuki & Rob Noyes - Classic Fevers and Chills (2023) Jun Fukamachi - Quark (Alfa, 1980) Daisuke Tanabe - Floating Underwater (Cat Eat Mosquito, 2014) Hiroshi Yoshimura - Soundscape 1 Surround (Misawa Home, 1986) Motohiko Hamase ‎- Reminiscence (Shi Zen, 1986) Hiroshi Yoshimura - Pier & Loft (Fukusei Gijutsu Kohboh, 1983)

[ammonitetestpatterns]

released on pinakotheca, takafumi sato's label, 1981. punkanachrock, aside from its art direction, was created anonymously by musicians associated with the fifth column. this segment of the A side is definitely for fans of tolerance, by its mooncavernous electronics and catlike crawl of the voice, feminine ymageoure of the sensuous interior.

[musicmakesyousmart]

Keiji Haino - Watashi Dake? (Only Me?)

Pinakotheca

1981

[bushdog]

Over the last fifty years few musicians or performers have created as monumental and uncompromising a body of work as that of Keiji Haino. Through a vast number of recordings and performances Haino has staked out a ground all his own- creating a language of unparalleled intensity that defies any simple classification. For all this, his 1981 debut album Watashi Dake? has remained enigmatic. Originally released in a small edition by the legendary Pinakotheca label, the album was heard by only a select few in Japan and far fewer overseas. Original vinyl copies became impossibly rare and highly sought after the world over. Watashi Dake? presents a haunting vision – stark vocals, whispered and screamed, punctuate dark silences. Intricate and sharp guitar figures interweave, repeat and stretch, trance-like, emerging from dark recesses. Written and composed on the spot – Haino’s vision is one of deep spiritual depths that distantly evokes 1920’s blues and medieval music- yet is unlike anything ever committed to record before or since. Coupled with starkly minimal packaging featuring the now iconic cover photographs by legendary photographer Gin Satoh, the album is a startling and fully realized artistic statement. Produced in close cooperation with Keiji Haino as well as Gin Satoh, Black Editions is proud to make this masterpiece of underground music its inaugural release. Re-issued on LP for the very first time, it is also the first ever edition to feature the originally intended metallic gold and silver artwork. The release also presents the first ever translation of the lyrics and titles by Alan Cummings. Each album also includes a digital download with an extended bonus live track from that era. This special edition was meticulously remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pressed to high quality vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI) and housed in specially printed heavy Stoughton tip-on jackets with matte metallic gold and silver covers and black paper inserts.

BLACK EDITIONS

[tinymixtapes]

Keiji Haino’s debut album Watashi Dake? to get first vinyl reissue on Black Editions

From Darth Vader starting off as a fatherless kid with bad acting skills to Lebron James allegedly being the product of an underground medical experiment funded by Spalding, every superhuman has their origin story. And while many might consider Keiji Haino’s 70s trip along the Milky Way a key point in his elongated step into the Japanese noise scene, the sole didn’t come to rest until 1981, when Haino’s debut studio album Watashi Dake? was released on vinyl to a relatively small audience. The Pinakotheca label sponsored the release in a correspondingly small edition, and the only other reissue since that time (until now) happened in 1993, when the Japanese label P.S.F. marked a CD version as one of the earlier releases in its now decades-long history. “Until now,” I say? (Don’t tell me you skipped the header and just found this article by schizo-clicking and reading.) But, yes; fine: UNTIL NOW. It turns out a brand new label called Black Editions is partnering with P.S.F. for a series of “lost” album reissues, and the former’s very first release will be a quite desired vinyl version of Watashi Dake?, out on June 16. The reissue will come with metallic gold and silver artwork, which is supposedly what Haino “originally intended.” And just in case you haven’t been exposed to Google Translate yet, the release will also come with English translations of both the track titles and the lyrics, done by Alan Cummings. (You know, the lyrics that Haino has a tendency either inaudibly whisper or else yell at the top of his lungs like everyone one’s favorite maniac? Those lyrics.) Here’s the pre-order link. In the mean time, stream the original screams n’ whispers down below. http://j.mp/2pGlyDq

[reiseikeitaaa]

Anode/Cathode / Punkanarchrock (1981 Pinakotheca Japan)ジャパニーズ・テクノ裏街道。

[zef-zef]

Brillant!!! A classic!!!

Keiji Haino - Watashi Dake? (Pinakotheca, 1981)