Asahito Nanjo
GREED
SSW 813 (LP)

Leader and bassist of the cult heavy-psych japanese band HIGH RISE, Asahito NANJO started as guitarist under the name RED in the late seventies with his first experience : RED & LAPIS and have formed later many other group, such as the well-knows MAINLINER, TOHO SARA, MUSICA TRANSONIC.
In more than 25 years, “Greed” is in fact NANJO’s first solo release. Recorded in 1993 and mastered at La Musica studio 2004, with the participation of Makoto KAWABATA (guitar), Hisashi YASUDA (bass) and Nobuko EMI (drums), NANJO use the criminal guitar, effect, voice and offer two long tracks. Composed and structured in the same vein as the solar first album of ASH RA TEMPEL, “Greed” is a dark psych-fuzz esoteric album, a veneration of the black sun, who follow more deeper the musical direction taken with the mysterious OHKAMI NO JIKAN.
250 copies limited numbered vinyl only edition.

Ilitch
RAINY HOUSE
SSW 812 (Picture Disc LP
+ CDr PRO)

ILITCH special release. An album entirely made with modified old piano and filters traitments, recorded in autumn 1978 and featuring six “room” tracks as piano parts variations on “Symphonyachevée” (a track from ILITCH second album “10 Suicides”).
A picture disc for a rare ILITCH document first period.
+ 2 bonus tracks on the CD.
“Rainy house” is a limited numbered edition to 250 copies.

EXPOSÉ#33 – May 2006 – www.expose.org
« The latest release by Ilitch (a limited edition of 250) collects material recorded from the late ’70s right up through the present, although many of the older pieces were tweaked, modified and remixed along the way. Ilitch is Thierry Müller, French electronic/experimental composer who released a number of albums in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and has recently become active again (his latest release of all new recordings, Hors Temps/Out of time, was reviewed in #32). The first six tracks on Rainy House are the six parts of the haunting minimalist suite Chambre, a stark, introspective piece performed on an old, slightly detuned piano, accented with sonic filters, fuzz and studio treatments. A progression of several chords are played in repetition with slight variation and slow evolution, adding various effects and timing delays as it goes. Comparable at times to some of Battiato’s late ’70s minimalist work, this actually develops a lot more variation throughout its duration and is thus far more interesting. The remaining two cuts (only on the CD) seem to be of more recent vintage, the first a 15 minute workout of swirling experimental sounds and textures, where Müller is joined by Julien Blaine on voice, kazoo, and Jew's harp. The final track features several tracks of sounds coming from a skipping CD mixed together at various intervals. While Hors Temps/Out of time was a more song-based release, Rainy House embodies the more experimental side of Ilitch's work. » PETER THELEN  

Michel Bulteau
& Elliott Murphy
HERO POET
SSW-811 (Mini LP)

2004 recording by this singular zig zag wan derer poet-rocker duo: Michel Bulteau, the electric soul former of the 70’s underground stone-in french group Mahogany Brain & the lost generation nomad songwriter’s Elliott Murphy. Following to their first works “Spleens” (1989), “Hero Poet” is a limited edition 5 songs mini LP : primitive modern bluesy compositions for guitar & vocals. An album for an imaginary movie soundtrack, with the insane-dark-western-in-the-snow-opening-track “Marcher dans la neige” ala Neil Young’s Dead Man. Liner notes by Elliott Murphy.