Browse by Artist: KUDO, REIKO & TORI

Artist:	KUDO, REIKO & TORI
Title:	From Now On
Label:	PSF (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	PSF 184CD

"Document of a recent (November 2008), intimate live show by Reiko Kudo and her husband Tori (of Maher Shalal Hash Baz fame). Long two of the most original figures in the Japanese underground, Reiko sings of the subtlest of everyday epiphanies, of those instants of momentary joy, pain and delight that flash by like ghosts glimpsed from the corner of the eye. Their simplicity and mystery is entirely disarming and deeply personal. She sings from a position of unforced naturalness, where both melody and vocalization are reduced to the thinnest of transparent, gossamer layers of art draped over reality. Simply astonishing. Tori and Reiko have been pivotal figures in the Tokyo underground since the late 1970s, when they were in a organ-drone and trumpet-blat group called Noise. Over the last dozen years Reiko has released a series of five solo albums under her own name. Seven tracks, forty-seven minutes. Booklet includes lyrics in English and Japanese." -- Alan Cummings

Artist:	KUDO, REIKO & TORI
Title:	Light
Label:	SIWA
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SIWA 801CD

"The CD is an edition of 500 housed in a hand assembled screen printed slipcase with 8 card inserts. Includes lyrics in Japanese and English. Artwork by Namio Kudo. Light was recorded live in 2005 and 2006 and features duo versions of tracks from the last three self released Reiko Kudo albums along with two previously unrecorded songs. Forgoing the big band explorations of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, here Tori and Reiko offer an intimate live set of Reiko's heartbreakingly beautiful songs of loss and longing."

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