Chie Mukai – Solo Improvisations [CD] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic airy soundscapes

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and hinting at novel paths for contemporary psychedelia

she has continued to work with her own Ché-SHIZU outfit and appear on recordings with artists such as Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Takayanagi’s solo Action Direct performances made him one of the first guitarists

Opening with a mesmerizing piece from 1978 pairing the voice and tamboura of Anne Klingensmith with letters spat out by a Speak n' Spell to the accompaniment of the randomized melodic patterns of DeMarinis's homebuilt electronic instrument "The Pygmy Gamelan"

Chie Mukai – Solo Improvisations [CD] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic airy soundscapes"CD reissue of Chie Mukai's second solo album originally released on LP in 2000. Three tracks recorded at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo in the late '90s. Just over 40 minutes of solo improvisations featuring the beautiful deep drone of the er hu (a traditional bowed Chinese instrument), augmented by voice, kengali, rings and cymbals. Mukai is an important (and underdocumented) figure in the Japanese underground whose work goes back to her time as a