Vertigo KO

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共7首歌曲

艺人: Phew
语种: 日语
厂牌: Disciples Records
发行时间: 2020年09月04日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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A compilation of unreleased material from the Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore sessions alongside specially recorded new material, including a cover of “The Void” by The Raincoats. Both formats include a 20 page zine designed by Studio Tape Echo featuring photography from Masayuki Shioda and writing from both Disciples and Phew. It follows on from a limited edition cassette and digital release of Phew’s music on Disicples called Vertical Jamming, which compiled some of the cult Japanese artist’s longform drone works.

“This album is an unconscious sound sketch. It was recorded in Japan from 2017 to 2019, a closed and obstructive time. It is not a presentation of a worldview, but a personal ary music of the late 2010s. The hidden message of this album is: What a terrible world we live in, but let's survive.” - Phew

Phew is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Starting out in 1978 fronting one of Osaka's earliest punk groups, Aunt Sally, and going on to collaborate with a whole host of notable names as a solo artist in the 80s, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Conny Plank, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. In recent years she's made music on record or live with Ana da Silva of The Raincoats, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Ikue Mori, and Yoshimi of OOIOO / Boredoms / Saicobab. For Disciples however, the most interesting aspect of Phew's work is the fact she has made her strongest musical work in the last few years, working entirely on her own. There's a lot of interest from crate-digger type labels in her early 80s new wave oriented work, and the names she's worked with are impressive, but there's no doubt in our minds that her two most recent records, Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore, are modern classics. It’s this period of her work that we were keen to explore with these releases, a contemporary archive of incredible and unique music.

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releases September 4, 2020

Phew: recording, synthesizers, voices

Hiroyuki Nagashima: mixing, bass on The Void, synthesizer on All That Vertigo, Midnight Awakening

Commissioned and sequenced by Disciples

All songs written by Phew, published by Daisho, except The Void written by Ana da Silva, Vicky Aspinall, Gina Birch and Paloma Blanco, published by Kassner Associated Publishers Limited

Mastering: Stefan Betke

Photos: Masayuki Shioda

Sleevenotes: Selpic Sid, Phew

Design: Studio Tape-Echo

Video: Lisa Aoki

Vertigo KO

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