SHŪDAN SOKAI - Live At 八王子 Alone LP Industrial or the intermissions of distorted

or the intermissions of distorted amplifier groans and Eastern guitar trills on “Ecstasy of Unbecoming”

expanding on the bop era playing he is known for

Thanks to unrestricted access to the FMP-Publishing Archive in Borken

Written and recorded as the band was in the process of breaking up

My mom didn’t even make it to the hospital before I decided to come into this world

SHŪDAN SOKAI - Live At 八王子 Alone LP Industrial or the intermissions of distortedFirst time reissue of JP free jazz rarity, pre Seikatsu Kjy Iinkai group. The only album by the quartet Shdan Sokai, self released in 1977, is one of the most vital documents of mid seventies Japanese free jazz, documenting Tokyos free scene at the precise moment when it began to shift to a handful of tiny venues on the western fringes of the city. In Free Jazz in Japan, Teruto Soejima identifies the extant venue Aketa no Mise in Nishi Ogikubo as the