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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
10-inch vinyl. A foldout insert incl. Japanese / English liner notes. Same tracks as the CD version. Additional mastering and cutting at D&M, Berlin. Catalog #: EM1193TLP
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD version. 12-page booklet, obi. Japanese / English liner notes. Same tracks as the 10-inch version. Catalog #: EM1193CD
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Includes unlimited streaming of SOUGI+(ソウギ・プラス)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
In the sad town the white hands of the dead Hold up rocks to hold up the sky
The sky disappears far away beyond the clouds
The poor children’s The lonely children’s
Sky disappears far away beyond the clouds
December 1982, Tokyo. Kiyoaki Iwamoto has a guitar, a simple rhythm box, a friend with a bass guitar, and some stripped-down songs, brazen in their post-punk simplicity, irritation and controlled aggression, yet full of sadness and resignation. Five songs, including a rearranged version of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” are recorded and released on a now extremely rare 7” record. This release, available on 10” vinyl, CD, or digital download, features those five songs, along with a previously unreleased 1980 live performance by his duo Birei, as well as a 2020 reworking of “Love…”, by the Japanese duo Chisako and Junta. Iwamoto was an enigma, active in the post-punk scene in Japan in the late 70s and early 80s, a member of Birei and founding member of Guys & Dolls with Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz); in the mid-80s he cut contact with his friends, disavowing his name and later performing under a different moniker.
かつて自らの過去を葬り消息を絶ったミュージシャンがいた。その名は岩本清顕(いわもと きよあき)。その理由はわからない。わかっているのはミニマム極限のオリジナル曲とECDをも驚愕させたジョイ・ディヴィジョン「Love Will Tear Us Apart(愛が僕らを引き裂く)」の《超訳》カヴァーを残したことだ。
岩本はポスト東京ロッカーズ期のシーンに姿を現し、ポストパンク・バンド<美れい>としてあの『都市通信』に参加。美れい解散後、工藤冬里とガイズンドールを結成し工藤と連名で『Hard Rock Album』(1984)を発表。その後、消息を絶つ。
本作は岩本がコジマ録音で自主制作した唯一のソロ作『SOUGI』(1983)に、千紗子と純太による「Love Will Tear Us Apart」のリワーク、工藤冬里・礼子のNOISE『天皇』をどこか彷彿とさせる美れいの未発表曲をプラスしたものだ。美れい時代の曲「悲しい町で」を含めた岩本のオリジナル4曲は、リズムボックスが鳴り、ギターとベースで数個のコードが演奏され、切り詰めたような短い詩が放たれる。苛立つ感情を自己内面にぶつけるのは日本のパンク/ニューウェーブの特徴だが、岩本のふてぶてしいヴォーカルはいっそう苛つきを増幅させるようで、ジョイ・ディヴィジョンの《超訳》に喪失のニヒルなクライマックスが訪れる。
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Headphone album of the year. Dating from 1984 but these guys were way ahead of their time, using field recordings & electronica to shape their warped dreampop meets Japanese folk meets... crank up those headphones, folks & set the controls for, well wherever these guys take you. Robert Bloemkolk
supported by 8 fans who also own “SOUGI+(ソウギ・プラス)”
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