{"title":"Black Editions","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"zoe-4","title":"Zoe","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe LP housed in tip-on jacket with g loss film laminate photo mounted on cover and printed inner sleeve. Personnel: Makoto Kawashima - Alto Saxophone, Harmonica.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded September 16, 2022, GOK Sound, Tokyo. On Zoe: With each release and performance over the last ten years, saxophonist Makoto Kawashima has continued to stake his claim as one of today's most captivating improvisers. Zoe is Kawashima's first ever studio album and his second with Black Editions. Recorded at Tokyo's storied GOK Sound, the album is one of the most beautiful and stark renderings of his voice to date. Over two side long excursions Kawashima's music springs to existence with striking clarity and power, yet remains rooted in the more obscure, spiritual realm from which all of his work seems to originate. Rather than let the studio smooth out the performances, Zoe is direct and unvarnished, the only adornment added being the ghostly, faint pre-echo of the reel to reel. Kawashima's elevation of an idiosyncratic solo practice places him squarely within the lineage of iconoclastic Japanese saxophonists such as Kaoru Abe, Tamio Shiraishi and Masayushi Urabe. At the outer bounds of improvised music, Kawashima's work reveals a fragile spirit, one that gives as much emphasis to silence and minute sounds, perhaps hesitations, as it does to ecstatic bursts of tone and texture. His music is undeniably intimate and vulnerable, eschewing the bravado and bluster that have often become tropes in the world of solo improvisation; Kawashima summons searing melodic lines and heavily textured passages and just as abruptly lets them collapse, vanishing into the ether. Perhaps more than anything, Kawashima is concerned with erasing the distinction between artist and instrument, the barriers between the internal self and the external world around us. \"The alto is the only instrument that becomes part of my body. It's like a soul that fuses together with my spirit. When I hold the instrument ready to play, something external to me appears behind me.\" Kawashima weaves aspects of blues and spiritual music within harshly abstract passages and a harrowing vibrato that echoes Albert Ayler's spirit. His personal experience and approach affirm these connections \"I see spirits all the time. Shadows, phantoms. They appear at the border between your internal world and where the external world affects you. What I want to do is give a certain concrete reality to those things. The essential part of yourself that your internal eyes want to look away from. I try to make that concrete, to give it a melody and let it out.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50382138736971,"sku":"2222070","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_984015c8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726243088"},{"product_id":"dispersion","title":"Dispersion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment they emerged in the early days of the 80's Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. The group's core duo of Asahito Nanjo on bass\/vocals and Munehiro Narita on guitar had an explosive chemistry; they mutated, distorted, amplified the raw velocity, heaviness, and electricity of late 60's \/ early 70's rock into an entirely new, monstrous form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Running in similar circles, their approach paralleled that of Les Rallizes Denudes, but with a more garage \/ proto-punk attack and the blistering intensity of a full-on amphetamine rush. While Mizutani's guitar is what took Rallizes's to another level, the same can be said for Narita's guitar work in High Rise- rightfully placing him in the pantheon of psychedelic guitarists and for some to call him \"the undisputed king of the motorcycle fuzz guitar. The band inspired the launch of the legendary P.S.F. label, giving it its first two releases which along with its third release, the debut of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, signaled a new era in the world of Japanese underground music. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHigh Rise's second album, 1986's \u003ci\u003eII\u003c\/i\u003e, was a triumph and fully lived up to the group's original \"Psychedelic Speed Freaks\" moniker, instantly raising the stakes for any band to follow. It carved out a new stream of rock music, rooted in an encyclopedic knowledge of the music's history and an almost metaphysical understanding of its raw elements and spirit. High Rise's third album, 1992's \u003ci\u003eDispersion\u003c\/i\u003e, kept the group's in-the-red intensity while pushing into new directions. Less grounded in speed, Nanjo along with drummer Dr. Euro build powerful, dynamic riffs that swing with crushing levels of heaviness. Slower pieces rife with blues infused tension appear alongside dissonant no wave inflected passages and rumbling biker rave-ups. All of which provide Narita with the room to create one of rock guitars most compelling high wire spectacles. Throughout the album he creates dizzying torrents of notes with a precision, control and endless inventiveness that crackles with chaotic energy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs P.S.F.'s own description proclaimed at the time \"Munehiro Narita's guitar explodes!\" this is \"Killer-Fuzz-Wah-Wah psychedelic heaven!\" \u003ci\u003eDispersion\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a masterpiece that should be a classic for all psychedelic speed freaks\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50394885259595,"sku":"2056569","price":53.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/be01626_4c9f2e62_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726449510"},{"product_id":"children-of-the-forest","title":"Children of the Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Editions Archive is ecstatic to announce the newest release in the Milford Graves Archival series, the double LP, Children of the Forest, featuring previously unreleased 1976 sessions with Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle that re-write the book on Milford Graves' ensemble music of the 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraves recorded these sessions himself in his legendary Queens basement laboratory and workshop in the weeks immediately leading up to the March 1976 session that, with the same unit, produced what many consider his most iconic album, Bäbi, recorded at WBAI-FM Free Music Store. Following the death of Albert Ayler in 1970 and up until his storied trip to FESTAC 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria, Graves gigged fairly often as a band leader in the New York Loft scene and traveled twice to Europe (1973, 1974) with duos, trios and quartets comprised of fellow New York City based musicians -almost always with Hugh Glover, and variously including Arthur Williams, Joe Rigby, Frank Lowe, and Arthur Doyle. The three sessions that comprise Children of the Forest date from near the end of this intensive period of grassroots activity by Graves during a peak era of musical \u0026amp; cultural ferment in jazz \u0026amp; Black American Music. The earliest recordings feature the duo of Graves (drums \u0026amp; percussion) and Glover (tenor saxophone) from January 24th, and Graves solo (drums \u0026amp; percussion) from February 2.  In an interview commissioned for this release and conducted by Jake Meginsky, Glover discusses the mastery of form and execution in Graves's playing and approach: \"It has always been a mystery to me how Cuban drummers in Bata were able to modulate the rhythm and the meter. Well, it takes more than one player to do it Cuban style. Prof (Graves) shows you can do it as one player. The reason he's able to do it is because he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the rhythms of the Caribbean, rhythms of Africa, plus rhythms of jazz. He can move around without losing the feel.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe centerpiece of this set is the March 11 session featuring Graves, Doyle on tenor saxophone and fife, and Glover on a rather unusual pair of instruments that would not appear on the Bäbi recording just one week later -klaxon and the vaccine, a Haitian one-note trumpet. Glover: \"The klaxon - it's important to keep that tribal possession-state feel... because it's not a Hollywood gallop. It's very much about the energy, this gallop. Prof (Graves) talks about that, talking about the low, the galloping as in the Divine Horsemen of Haiti.\" Doyle's visceral and unrestrained tenor playing on the March 11 session is further evidence as to why his work, especially during this period, has attained mythic status among aficionados of free jazz and even noise music. Graves would later discuss Doyle in Conversations (William Parker, 2011 Rogue Art Books): \"There was another horn player I know that really got into it from the gut and he had a certain kind of intellectualism when we performed - that was Arthur Doyle. (laughs) Arthur Doyle would just go into it. I mean really just go into it - something happened there that was beyond the immediate intellectual control of the people who was doing it. It was about just doing it and don't worry about all these people putting you down. The most important thing was what was coming out of your instrument and how it was effecting people.\" Listening to these recordings, that spirit is unmistakable. The original 1\/4 inch reel, labelled \"Pygmy\" by Graves, including 15 minutes of audio from an unknown documentary on the Mbuti People of the Congo Basin, are among the few tapes we've so far encountered from Graves' private archive that seem clearly intended in his conception \u0026amp; sequencing to be an album. For this reason, these recordings are now presented exactly as assembled by Graves, for soonest possible release.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50412833243467,"sku":"2027370","price":57.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5lif9sMg_9b7d9a57_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726669023"},{"product_id":"eat-meat-swear-an-oath","title":"Eat Meat, Swear an Oath","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe vinyl edition in heavy tip-on jacket with textured paper, mounted high quality print, foil stamped finishes and spot colours. Black Editions is pleased to announce the release of the definitive vinyl editions of two milestone, career-spanning works from Shinji Shibayama - one of the key architects of Japan's Kansai rock \/ psych \/ pop underground: The near-mythic, solitary release by the Hallelujahs, \u003ci\u003eEat Meat, Swear an Oath \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1986, and Nagisa Ni Te's \u003ci\u003eNewocean\u003c\/i\u003e first released in 2020 on the group's 25th anniversary - both beautifully remastered from the original analogue sources and presented in deluxe packaging. From his first releases in the early 1980s to the present day, Shibayama has championed a distinctive sound; embracing simplicity and gentle melodies right alongside adveturous, off-beat experimentation. His music has all the time glowed with a wide-eyed awe and wistful exaltation, a soundtrack for everything from everyday romance to the mysteries of the cosmos. Friends gathered in the studio by Shinji Shibayama, Hallelujahs created a music of deep feeling and wonderment with simple song craft and a guileless magic. The album was first released by the revered ORG Records in 1986 in a micro-edition of 300 copies. With affinities to the sounds of the Rough Trade and Flying Nun labels, and the Paisley Underground and Galaxie 500, the album is an utterly unique masterpiece that remains a touchstone for generations of like-spirited artists in Japan and around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50412847989067,"sku":"2003339","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/AU-MeSjg_f21bf61d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726669100"},{"product_id":"mass-hysterism-in-another-situation-2","title":"Mass Hysterism in Another Situation","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe 2LP Gatefold. Remastered and cut to double 45RPM 12\" vinyl. House in heavy tip-on gatefold jacket with Pantone spot colors, spot ink pigment foil on gloss film laminate finish and printed inner sleeves. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI. Recorded at Kid Ailak Hall, August 14, 1983 Meidaimae, Tokyo. \"Without producing a single phrase, the two distorted guitars became simple \"electric sound\" generators, and like fish swimming freely in water, they each tear through time in their own fashion. And yet there is a remarkable sense of unity to how they fill the world with electric vibrations. Is there a simpler, more beautiful music than this? …on this date, with a sensitivity to sound reminiscent of Ayler's Ghosts, the performance reaches a plateau… Takayanagi's trio offered the gods of free jazz the most beautiful fruit in existence.\" - Yoshiyuki Kitazato Mass Hysterism in Another Situation captures Masayuki Takayanagi's New Direction Unit in its final incarnation, at an apex in its development; it also finds Takayanagi, one of Japan's great iconoclastic artists, at a moment of crucial artistic transformation. Recorded in August 1983 as part of his \"Another Situation\" concert series, the album features one of the last performances of Takayanagi's revolutionary and perhaps most famously violent piece, Mass Projection. By this date, New Direction's line up had been distilled to a compact, searingly hot trio of Takayanagi joined on electric guitar by Akira Iijima and Hiroshi Yamazaki on drums \/ percussion. Over the course of 40 minutes, the group sustains an uninterrupted, highly charged attack propelled with unrelenting energy. The music is rife with noise and dissonance intruding from both sides; a vortex of sound and fury that begins to slip from even the expansive bounds of free jazz into something almost purely electronic. The trio would perform only four more times, completing the \"Another Situation\" series with its 24th edition in November 1984. Eleven months later Takayanagi would debut an entirely new modality, one he called \"Action Direct\". It completely transformed his approach to guitar and sound in general by embracing an entirely abstract, solo noise music projected through massive, complex sound systems of his own design. Mass Hysterism is perhaps the most powerful link in this part of Takayanagi's history- a perfect realization and farewell to one of his greatest forms en route to territories even further afield and radical. 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With Musica Transonic, three giants of the Japanese underground Nanjo Asahito (High Rise), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), and Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins) pushed the rock power trio to its absolute, overdriven limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupercharged with complex rhythms, blistering psychedelic guitars and heavy bass attacks, the group’s unmatched sonics retain the ability to shock even now, 25 years after this, their self titled debut, was originally released by P.S.F. Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50447559426379,"sku":"1099901","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/23657fc6-63df-42cf-b24d-d610f6584466_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727079615"},{"product_id":"corridor-of-daylights","title":"Corridor Of Daylights","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst time on vinyl. Includes bonus tracks in a deluxe edition featuring pearlescent paper, metallic inks and foil stamped letters as well as two inserts including a newly translated illustrated story booklet. Go Hirano’s third album, \u003ci\u003eCorridor of Daylights\u003c\/i\u003e, is a quiet work of dreamlike brilliance. A home field recording where fragile piano melodies float alongside wind-chimes and wistful melodicas — insects hum in the distance and a breeze gently rustles as summer day eases toward evening. Hirano creates sparsely contemplative and alternately playful music that at times evokes Erik Satie or even Hiroshi Yoshimura Originally released in Japan by P.S.F. Records in 2004, \u003ci\u003eCorridor of Daylights\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful, soulful dispatch from early aughts Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50478991049035,"sku":"1099898","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/389e126b-c33b-4dfd-872a-1a0ed8917809_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727497226"},{"product_id":"heavenly-persona","title":"Heavenly Persona","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Editions presents Shizuka's sole studio album, 1994's \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Persona\u003c\/i\u003e, a monumental, transcendent work originally issued by P.S.F. Japan on CD in 1994; Now newly remastered and in its first ever vinyl edition on double LP with a laser etched fourth side. Presented in a deluxe tip-on tri-fold jacket with ink pigment foil stamping, gloss film laminate finish and printed inner sleeves and mounted booklet. It includes her extensive, heart wrenching final interview, translated for the first time to English alongside high-resolution archival images.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew artists have left behind a legacy as enigmatic and captivating as Shizuka Miura. Amidst the Tokyo underground, she was a spectral figure, creating ghostly, childlike dolls and writing haunting, other-worldly songs. She formed Shizuka in 1992 with Maki Miura, known for his staggering guitar work in legendary groups Fushitsusha and Les Rallizes Dénudés. Their music bloomed with a fragile, yet explosive mystical power; an atmospheric alchemy of psychedelic rock, folk and noise with Shizuka's ethereal vocals invoking loneliness, yearning and dark providence. Since her passing in 2010, the group has steadily gathered a cult following.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50527252054347,"sku":"2012068","price":68.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image005_8a81fe6b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728052805"},{"product_id":"webo","title":"Webo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree LPs packaged in a heavy black, pigment-stamped box with mounted cover painting along with liner notes by William Parker, commentary from Alan Licht (witness to night one of the Webo concerts), a reproduction of the original concert flyer, \u0026amp; a set of 6x9 printed photos from the 2021 Webo reunion outside MoMA PS1, Queens, NY. Cover Painting by Jeff Schlanger \/ musicWitness, made June 8, 1991, at Webo during the band’s performance. Vinyl pressed at RTI, lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA legendary concert by one of the great unrecorded bands in free jazz history is here at last. WEBO, the third installment in the Black Editions Archive series of previously unreleased recordings from Milford Graves' private tape library, roars into the station in June 2024. For the first time, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, \u0026amp; William Parker - three lions of the Black American jazz avant-garde- are finally heard together on record, presented here across three audiophile-quality LPs for two brutalizingly joyous hours of real ju-ju \u0026amp; musical mastery. The trio of Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, \u0026amp; William Parker gave only seven public performances between 1985 \u0026amp; 2013, \u0026amp; released no recordings. Their June 1991 two-night stand at the short-lived Lower East Side venue Webo, long referenced as a signal event in New York free jazz's 1990s resurgence, has been a topic of discussion among close followers of the music for decades. In the uncompromising grassroots spirit of the 1970s New York Musicians Organization \u0026amp; loft jazz movements from which they had emerged, the band produced \u0026amp; promoted the Webo concerts themselves. Photography and audio recording were not allowed at the concerts, \u0026amp; this official recording, commissioned by the artists, was never released -until now. So vivid was the lore surrounding Webo that it topped the list of recordings sought by Black Editions Archive from Graves' private collection. The tapes maximally substantiate eyewitness accounts describing extra-sensory levels of communication within the band, \u0026amp; the extraordinary clarity \u0026amp; impact of their performance. From William Parker's liner notes: \"Imagine a village or choir of drummers, horn players \u0026amp; strings. You can hear the bass \u0026amp; drums churning with a call \u0026amp; response, a melodic-rhythmic propulsion. In reality there is only one drummer, one bass, \u0026amp; one saxophone.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAge 52 at the time of these concerts, Charles Gayle had only recently made his first recordings. To all but the most immediate insiders he was still more myth than reality. Milford Graves, two months out from his 50th birthday, was about halfway into his body of recorded work \u0026amp; had sanctioned just one appearance on a commercially released recording in the last 14 years (Pieces of Time by an all drummer quartet with Kenny Clarke, Andrew Cyrille, \u0026amp; Famoudou Don Moye). William Parker, the young man of the group at age 39, was a mere fifty entries into his discography, now 500+ entries \u0026amp; counting. 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Black Editions is pleased to announce the release of the definitive vinyl editions of two milestone, career-spanning works from Shinji Shibayama - one of the key architects of Japan's Kansai rock \/ psych \/ pop underground: The near-mythic, solitary release by the Hallelujahs, \u003ci\u003eEat Meat, Swear an Oath \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1986, and Nagisa Ni Te's \u003ci\u003eNewocean\u003c\/i\u003e first released in 2020 on the group's 25th anniversary - both beautifully remastered from the original analogue sources and presented in deluxe packaging. From his first releases in the early 1980s to the present day, Shibayama has championed a distinctive sound; embracing simplicity and gentle melodies right alongside adventurous, off-beat experimentation. His music has all the time glowed with a wide-eyed awe and wistful exaltation, a soundtrack for everything from everyday romance to the mysteries of the cosmos. Since their first album in 1995, Japan's Nagasi Ni Te has created an enchanting and deeply personal sound world woven from folk, psychedelia, and rock along with wistful melodies and gentle arrangements. Centred on Shinji Shibayama (Hallelujahs) and Masako Takeda's partnership, the group has created intimate, emotionally resonant music that floats and breathes with an ease that can only come from a sort of telepathic chemistry. Released in Japan on the group's 25th anniversary, \u003ci\u003eNewocean \u003c\/i\u003eis a clear-eyed, expansive collection of songs evoking love and loss, hazy sunshine and looming darkness, human yearning amidst nature's grandeur.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50988651053387,"sku":"2003341","price":52.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/yR9snh1Q_596f2500_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734528430"},{"product_id":"passivite","title":"Passivite","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe LP housed in metallic silver tip-on jacket with gloss film laminate finish, matte pigment stamping and two printed inner sleeves. Passivité is the entrancingly beautiful debut solo album from You Ishihara, the founder of Japan's legendary White Heaven. On its first release, on CD in 1997, it received scant attention. Since then, it has steadily gathered adherents, who, like P.S.F. 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