PHEW – Vertigo KO – LP – Vinyl

PHEW Vertigo KO

LP Black Vinyl Includes 20 Page Zine

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. 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 Phews music on Disicples called Vertical Jamming, which compiled some of the cult Japanese artists 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 documentary music of the late 2010s. The hidden message of this album is: What a terrible world we live in, but lets survive. Phew

Phew is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Starting out in 1978 fronting one of Osakas 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 Einstrzende Neubauten and Chrislo Haas of DAF. In recent years shes made music on record or live with Ana da Silva of The Raincoats, Jim ORourke, Oren Ambarchi, Ikue Mori, and Yoshimi of OOIOO / Boredoms / Saicobab.

For Disciples however, the most interesting aspect of Phews work is the fact she has made her strongest musical work in the last few years, working entirely on her own. Theres a lot of interest from crate-digger type labels in her early 80s new wave oriented work and the names shes worked with are impressive but theres no doubt in Disciples minds that her two most recent records, Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore, are modern classics. Its this period of her work that the label are keen to explore with these releases, a contemporary archive of incredible and unique music.

LP in reverse board sleeve with 20 page 210x210mm wire-stitched fanzine on 115gsm uncoated paper.

Tracklisting

The Very Ears Of Morning
The Void
Lets Dance Lets Go
The Very Ears Of Dusk
All That Vertigo
Midnight Awakening
Hearts And Flowers

LABEL: Disciples

CAT NO: Disc7

BARCODE: 5060384618128