Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Chie Mukai
Kokyu Improvisation

PSF PSFD-10

CD
£13.99


Live kokyu (single string traditional instrument with a grainy, vocal sound) improvisations from the leader of Tokyo acid-folk orchestra Ché-SHIZU and regular Masayoshi Urabe duo partner. Also features plenty of hypnotically treated metal percussion, scalp-shearing cymbal work, rough tape composition and Mukai's beautifully idiosyncratic throat work. A lonesome voyage through whole new vectors of late-night trance. Recorded in 1984 and one of the major unsung monsters in the PSF back catalogue.

Chie Mukai
Solo Improvisations

SIWA SCD-003

CD
£8.99


Re-mastered reissue of Chie Mukai's second solo album, originally released in 2000 in an edition of 300 copies that immediately sold out on issue. This new edition comes in a gorgeous silkscreened gatefold sleeve with obi strip. Three tracks recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall in Tokyo with vocals, er-hu, kengali, rings and cymbals. The music is slow, spacious folk-trance with the knotty droning sonorities of the er-hu sounding like the folk music of a phantom planet. A very melancholy set that feels like a more tactile, primitive take on the endless tides of Takehisa Kosugi's legendary Catch Wave.