2022. 3LP box. In August 1969, Masayuki Takayanagi formed his first New Direction group and embarked on an unparalleled musical journey that over the final 22 years of his life would define him as an uncompromising ..

2020. A mystifying work of Japanese avant-garde shamanism, Toho Sara's 1995 debut introduced a radical new sound from Asahito Nanjo (High Rise), Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) and Hisashi Yasuda - playing an ..

2019. Though hailing from different continents, Swiss tenor and soprano saxophone player Ingrid Laubrock and Japanese pianist Aki Takase recorded a collaborational avant-garde jazz album that sounds like a dialogue ..

2021. From boundary-pushing koto musicians to experimental jazz virtuosi, Japanese music has long embraced all things avant-garde. This Rough Guide highlights some of today's key innovators whose individualism chall..

2021. Vanishing Twin explores new ground on this 2021 album. 'Ookii Gekkou' (which is Japanese for 'Big Moonlight') incorporates elements of Afrofunk, outer jazz and avant-garde, all while referencing Sun Ra to Alic..

2021. Vanishing Twin explores new ground on this 2021 album. 'Ookii Gekkou' (which is Japanese for 'Big Moonlight') incorporates elements of Afrofunk, outer jazz and avant-garde, all while referencing Sun Ra to A..

2021. After Dinner from Japan, embraced new wave, traditional Japanese music, free contemporary and avant-garde rock. Founded under hand of delicious female vocalist, musician and composer Haco in 1981, broaching a ..

2021. Golden Bug's 'Toyoko No Kuni' builds a bridge between two cultures by creating a musical epic sounding like an imaginary, acid-drenched Toshiya Fujita movie. A tribute to the 70's avant-garde scene and by chan..

2020. On this (harder to find) album you'll find sublime French recordings (recorded in 1990, released in 1991). Here, Sanders plays with an all-star line-up consisting of Stafford James (Sun Ra) on bass, William He..

2021. Japanese import. This amazing free improvisation trio is formed by musicans who released on PSF Records, Inage Louis (member of Derakushi), Naoto Yamagishi (Bon No Kubo) and Makoto Kawashima. This is a great l..

2022. Compilation of Japanese indie-pop and avant-garde groups using brass or woodwind instruments, comes on a 2LP edition of 500 copies. Compiled by Markus Acher (Alien Transistor, The Notwist, Hochzeitskapelle)..

2019. Japanese experimental group Les Rallizes Denudes are the ultimate rock'n'roll enigma. Sometimes referred to as Hadaka no Rallizes or even as Hadaka no Rarizu, each appellation a variant of the name "Fucke..

2019. Available for the first time outside Japan, 'Phosphorescent Dreams' is another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from Univers Zéro, originally released in 2014 only on CD on the Japanese ..

2020. Traveling the spaceways as Spiral Galaxy, flautist/painter Sara Gossett and treated guitar/machines manipulator Plastic Crimewave (of Plastic Crimewave Syndicate/Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine) have created dev..

2022. Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and j..

2022. 'Fanfare For Tonsils' scooped the polls in 2021 and appeared either as no. 1 or top ten of the greatest releases of 2021 on more than 10 music blogs. Santa Sprees is an Anglo-Japanese avant psych pop band. San..

2016. Palomica is the home-recorded "clumsy rock and roll project" of Nicol Parkinson and 'Petito' is Palomico's second full-length album. Theres a wide range of avant and pop influences running through th..

2023. Guitarist, ethnomusicologist, and film score composer Henry Kaiser has been at the forefront of avant-garde guitar since the '70s and his idiosyncratic playing can be heard on recordings with David Lindley, An..

2022. Terrific session originally released on Japanese indie label Nivico in 1970. Recorded at Victor Studio, Aoyama Tokyo 11 September, the album is the essential work of four wicked minds. Saxophone player Steve M..

2023. Die-hard box set version, limited to 200 units only! Comes on neon purple vinyl, and includes and 8-page booklet, an oldschool logo metal pin, a poster, an A5 plastic sticker and a Japanese metallic obi strip..

2024. Presented on vinyl is the first ever vinyl reissue of a highly rated Japanese new wave/avant garde album, originally from 1986. This remastered edition comes with a replica of the original insert and a two-si..

2024. One of the rarest albums ever from the mighty Masahiko Satoh, a composer and arranger,as well as a key figure in the avantgarde music from Japan. Originally issued on Japan Columbia in 1970, the two sides of v..

2024. Nehan is a Japanese free improvisation and avant-garde rock quintet formed in August 2022. Their performances are initiated by a 9hz brain wave emitted from a testee who has been brought into a deep meditative..

2023. Now reissued on vinyl, the stunning LP 'Tapestry: Koto & The Occident Sea' is part of a three-album series produced by Nippon Columbia in the mid-1970s, dedicated to the koto, one of the main instruments o..

2024. Following the release of the first volume of the 'Tapestry: Koto' series, Cinedelic completes the series of 3 with the release of the remaining two valuable albums. 'Tapestry: Koto' is a 3-album series produce..

2024. Following the release of the first volume of the 'Tapestry: Koto' series, Cinedelic completes the series of 3 with the release of the remaining two valuable albums. 'Tapestry: Koto' is a 3-album series produce..

2017. 2017 album of piano driven ambient music from British composer Robert Haigh. Following in the path of his albums for the Japanese Siren label, 'Creatures Of The Deep' is an underground vantage of a meeting bet..

2016. In 1965. only a few months after recording 'Ghosts' with Albert Ayler. Sonny Murray released his first album as a leader. 'Sonny's Time Now' is one of the holy grails for collectors and aficionados of free ava..

2014. 2014 CD by the outstanding Russian ethno-electronics band Theodor Bastard. The album unites compositions written for documentaries by Brazilian filmmaker Gustavo Santos; for 'Secrets Of Ourselves' - a film by ..

2015. 'Casino Royal' contains 39 minutes of psychedelic electro pop, obscure, interesting, challenging and easy listening at the same time. Cotton Casino is a Japanese female singer, mainly known from Acid Mothers T..

2013. The person behind Urpf Lanze is Belgian visual artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, who is mainly known for his large-scale ink drawings that offer a hermetic blend of weirdo characters, medieval iconography and surr..

2016. Joxfield Projex is an irrational dynamic electro psyche duo from Sweden that produces avant-whatever music. Ryoko Ono, born in Sapporo and currently mainly active in Nagoya, is one of the most active Japanese ..

2016. Moondog's debut-LP, originally on the Prestige label, was issued in 1956, long after he'd become a legendary New York City street performer. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal and ava..

2016. In 1965. only a few months after recording 'Ghosts' with Albert Ayler. Sonny Murray released his first album as a leader. 'Sonny's Time Now' is one of the holy grails for collectors and aficionados of free ava..

2017. Legendary Japanese noise band Hijokaidan team up with electronic avant-pop pioneer Jun Togawa. Pressed on 180 gram translucent red wax. Comes with 48x72cm fold-out poster and full English lyrics. Includes down..

2017. A reissue of the 1986 single 'Neo-Plant' by Koharu Kisaragi, co-written and produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. 'Neo-Plant' is deep, avant-garde, synth pop, replete with sample keyboard sounds and dub effects. On th..

2009. A full color book bound gatefold sleeve in an edition of 600 copies. A new project featuring members of LSD March and Tenniscoats join forces to create an avant-garde-psych-contry-folk album! Folk-psych folks ..

2016. On this album prolific Japanese artist Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow, teams up with session musician, producer and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi for a work that showcases another side to Akita's monumental o..

2017.  .  .  .  Little that way lies a quagmire' - first collaborational album by turkish free jazzers konstrukt and the japanese avant-garde/noise icon keiji haino. &nbs..

2020. Japanese sound artist and producer Kosei Fukuda's presents a collaborated vision of the first edition of ENSo, a two-day audio-visual event collated around the Reiten label. This 2LP brings a wide range of ava..

2018. 2017 album of piano driven ambient music from British composer Robert Haigh. Following in the path of his albums for the Japanese Siren label, 'Creatures Of The Deep' is an underground vantage of a meeting bet..

2018.  .  .  .  Little by little that way lies a quagmire' - second album by turkish free jazzers konstrukt and the japanese avant-garde/noise icon keiji haino, this time reco..

2018. Composer, multi-instrumentalist and mixed-media artist, Takehisa Kosugi has stood on the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde for over six decades. In the 1960s, he was part of Japan's first improvisational m..

2019. Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series continues with 'Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990', an unprecedented overview of the country's vital minimal, ambient, avan..

2017.  'japanese folk & rock 1969-1973' - some of the most influential figures in japanese pop music emerged from the late'60s, yet very little of their work has ever been released or heard outside of ..

2019. Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series continues with 'Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990', an unprecedented overview of the country's vital minimal, ambient, avan..

2019. 'Serenitatem', the fifteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.'s collaboration series pairing inter-generational artists in creative conversation, joins Visible Cloaks with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, tw..

2019. Few label founders loom as large in the history of underground music as P.S.F. Record's Hideo Ikeezumi. Over three decades and more than 200 titles, Ikeezumi's intensely critical ear guided and assembled a bod..

2019. Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series continues with 'Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990', an unprecedented overview of the country's vital minimal, ambient, avan..

2019. Available for the first time outside Japan, 'Phosphorescent Dreams' is another epic album of symphonic schizophrenic avant-rock from Univers Zéro, originally released in 2014 only on CD on the Japanese ..

2020. On this (harder to find) album you'll find sublime French recordings (recorded in 1990, released in 1991). Here, Sanders plays with an all-star line-up consisting of Stafford James (Sun Ra) on bass, William He..

2020. Originally released on CD in 2018, now on vinyl with an additional track and renewed artwork, here's a highly rated album by the Japanese industrial-experimental-synth duo featuring Tommi Tokyo (synths, drum m..