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"The most important thing for me was that initial, unadorned expression"
Go Hirano speaks with Justin Simon for his fist ever interview.
Go Hirano
“The thing I care the most about is tone”
Fall 1995: A G-Modern interview and reviews with Phew
Phew
Yūji Itsumi 1947-2019
Yūji Itsumi, photographer, writer, blogger, and a key figure in the documentation of Japanese free jazz, passed away at his home in Yokohama on June 18, 2019.
Yūji Itsumi
Revolutionary Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi's archives to be released in definitive vinyl editions.
Black Editions Group and Jinya Disc Japan have reached an exclusive agreement for the release of definitive vinyl editions of the archives of legendary Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi (1932-1991).
Masayuki Takayanagi
“Anything was fine, as long as it was different from what others were doing”
Winter 1997: Interview no. 1 with Chie Mukai from G-Modern Vol. 14
Ché-SHIZU
“A world that achieves a balance or harmony…”
Winter 1997: Interview no. 2 with Chie Mukai from G-Modern Vol. 14
Ché-SHIZU
“Could You Write ‘Tokyo Flashback’ Here?”
You Ishihara’s Reflections on Hideo Ikeezumi
P.S.F. Records
Early Acid Mothers Temple, A Cosmic Narration
Johan Wellens recounts early incarnations of the Soul Collective
Acid Mothers Temple
“I was a strange kid with no ambitions”
November 1996 - An in-depth interview with High Rise's Asahito Nanjo
Asahito Nanjo
“I thought it would be good to be somewhere where there would be hardly any passersby.”
An interview with Hideo Ikeezumi on his formative years and the beginnings of Modern Music and P.S.F. Records
P.S.F. Records
"I See Spirits All the Time"
An interview with Makoto Kawashima, the last P.S.F. artist.
Makoto Kawashima
“Like an Antithetical Keiji Haino”
A conversation with Keiji Haino on his early years and Watashi Dake?
Keiji Haino
"From a Place of Absolute Nothingness"
The Origins of Keiji Haino’s Watashi Dake?
Keiji Haino
"On a desolate beach."
Seymour Glass speaks with Michael Morley about his new double album Heavens Idleness Awaits. As the publisher of the seminal underground zine Bananafish, Glass first wrote about Morley when his work with the Dead C and as Gate first crossed the pacific from New Zealand and made it's earliest ripples in the American underground.
Michael Morley
"Yes, we drank wine to the chime of bells but we also did this."
Seymour Glass speaks with A Handful of Dust's Bruce Russell about the group's history, it's methods, the commanding voice of poetry and the finer aspects of being toasted.
A Handful of Dust