""Upopo Sanke" means "Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, ...
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PINGIPUNG81 | PINGIPUNG
"Die Existenz von Kulturzeitschriften steht einmal wieder auf dem Prüfstand. Die Klage von Lettre International gegen Sinn und Form - wegen Wettbewerbsvorteil als an einer staatlichen Institution herausgegeben Zeitschrift -, die erstmal dazu führte, dass Sinn und Form ...
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136 | POSITIONEN
Boxset with two tapes and a book (German language and photos), 100 copies ""Ich will mich nicht aufspielen aber, sie verzeihen, meine Position ist die des, wie würden sie es nennen, religiös rituellen Spezialisten, was bedeuten wu¨rde, dass man mir alles glaubt. Das ...
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AATP92 | AUF ABWEGEN
"Radial is the result of a vivid creative merge between Esplendor Geometrico and AtomTM. A transparent diamond formed by a heavy implosion. Its underlying massive mechanics are covered by a crystal surface made to cut reality in half. Just one letter short of "radical", ...
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R-M209 | RASTER-NOTON
""Recorded in 1973 during a series of acid-fuelled all-night jam parties held at producer Dieter Dierks studio near Cologne, 'Cosmic Jokers' was the work of a veritable krautrock supergroup that included Dierks himself, Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Klaus Schulze ...
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KM580096 | KOSMISCHE KURIERE
"Never colonized, Thailand has remained purely itself across the years even while developing, evolving and selectively adopting international influences; the same can be said of Thai popular music, and can be clearly heard in previous releases of Thai music on EM ...
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EM1186LP | EM RECORDS
"YPY is back with his third full-length album, his second on EM Records, following his 2016 debut Zurhyrethm, and 2020 on Where To Now? YPY is the solo alias of Osaka-based Koshiro Hino, who has honed his rhythmic instincts as leader of the acclaimed Japanese band goat ...
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EM1184CD | EM RECORDS
"Tapes, aka Jackson Bailey, returns to EM Records for the first time since 2015's "No Broken Hearts on This Factory Floor", in a live collaboration with his pal from Osaka, 7FO, another of EM's favourite artists. This CD features new arrangements of some Tapes digital ...
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EM1188CD | EM RECORDS
"Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing and sweetly melodic soundworld, based on composer Emilio Haro's vision of a band playing the music of an imaginary ...
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EM1195LP | EM RECORDS
"Clan Caimán returns to EM Records for their second album, continuing the instinctive evolution of their music: a wordless, timeless, gently pulsing and sweetly melodic soundworld, based on composer Emilio Haro's vision of a band playing the music of an imaginary ...
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EM1195CD | EM RECORDS
"The music of Clan Caiman is primitive and hypnotic. It is located in the pre-rock era and from there, it proposes a different evolutionary path for music from the 1950s to present day. Like a different musical development in a parallel timeline. Gamelan, Hawaiian ...
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EM1177CD | EM RECORDS
