Artist: Musica Transonic
Title: Solid Static
Label: Black Editions / La Musica
Catalog # BE-LA 002/004
Format: LP & Digital
Release Date: April 3, 2026
 
Wild, heavy electric sessions recorded in 1997/98 featuring the classic Mainliner & Musica Transonic lineup of Nanjo Asahito, Kawabata Makoto and Yoshida Tatsuya driving into divergently fried terrain(s). Here, Nanjo and co. are on a quest to find new directions, and while the sessions were for an abandoned Mainliner album, a good portion of Solid Static hews more closely to the moment-to-moment deconstructions of Musica Transonic.
 
That project’s improvised and jazz-informed take on psychedelic rock is writ across the distended rhythms and arcing bass and guitar lines that scrawl across “Prosecutor” and “Topsy Turvy”, or the slurry of distorted tone that rolls through “Rot Way”. The propulsive ten-minute opening title track, begins with one of Mainliner’s bludgeoning motor-psycho riffs, before veering off into auratic space, Kawabata’s snake-charming guitar weaving around Nanjo’s buzz-fire bass and Yoshida’s multi-limbed drumming; a sleeper gem in the canon of Japanese psychedelia and rock & roll.
Available for the first time on LP or any physical form aside from a clutch of CDR’s sold at a few live dates in the late ‘90s. Housed in a custom die-cut, "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic ink, spot finishes and matching La Musica inner sleeve.
 
credits:
 
Bass, Vocals: Asahito Nanjo
Guitar: Makoto Kawabata
Drums: Tatsuya Yoshida
Words and Music by Asahito Nanjo
Arranged by Musica Transonic
Recorded at West Studio Tokyo, Japan 1997
Produced by Asahito Nanjo
Additional Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk, Stereophonic Mastering
Lacquers by Phillip S. Rodriguez, Elysian Masters
Executive Produced by Peter Kolovos
 
Black Editions / La Musica Records 2026
BE-LA 002/004
 
Available for the first time digitally, on LP or any physical form aside from La Musica CD-R (LA-004). Housed in a custom die-cut, "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic ink, spot finishes and matching La Musica inner sleeve. Pressed at RTI.