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Artist:
CHE-SHIZU
Title:
Nazareth
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 035CD
Live material from Chie Mukai's group, recorded in 1981, who play "ambient psychedelic music... includes Tori Kudo, leader of Maher Shalal Hash Baz." From Alan Cummings's "Japanese Psychedelia Primer" in
The Wire
: ""The dream-pop psych unit Ché-Shizu are one of the rare examples of a traditional Japanese instrument (in this case, the three-stringed kokyu bowed fiddle) being used in a psychedelic context.
Nazareth
is a sometimes shambling compilation of their live recordings and features the fascinatingly atonal sound of Chie Mukai's kokyu drifting through the cracks of conventional melody. The group's interest in traditional English folk music is just one more indication of the breadth and complexity of underground Japan's continuing interaction with the West."
Artist:
CHE-SHIZU
Title:
A Journey
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 053CD
Second CD by this group featuring Chie Mukai. The sound is a very advanced, mature/classic form of "rock," with guitars, piano, bass, drums and streaming, evocative vocals from Mukai. Hard to classify, there's a non-cliched slant to their music that one almost never experiences in the horrific corridors of near-rock. Surreal dreamscapes, perfectly realized.
Artist:
CHE-SHIZU
Title:
Live 1996
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 089CD
"Third PSF release for the otherworldly lo-fi psych-pop group, led by Japanese underground pin-up/muse Chie Mukai. There's something unidentifiably unique and unsettlingly lyrical about Ché Shizu's records, a quality hardly ever found in other groups that flirt with the edges of 'rock'. There's a fascinating atonality to the sound of her kokyu, a sound that exists in between the cracks of organized tones and rhythm. The group's approach is undoubtedly best served by live-recordings, and this collects 13 of the best from their '96 gigs, including a couple of traditional British ballads. Beautiful and haunting music." -- Alan Cummings
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