Your cart is currently empty!
Fire Records
Half Japanese 'Volume 2 : 1987-1989'
£14.99
Fire Records
Half Japanese 'Volume 2 : 1987-1989'
£14.99
The Fire Records Half Japanese reissue series continues with the second volume, covering the three releases of Music to Strip By', Charmed Life'and The Band That Would Be King'released one a year from 1987 to 1989. Following the Record Store Day 2014 release, Volume 1: 1981-1985', the next three Half Japanese records come in their original release form, with the additional tracks that were later added to the CD releases over the years available via download code (see below for track lists).
The LPs are wrapped together in a heavy wide spine outer sleeve with a specially designed paper cut image by Jad Fair, who also provides more illustrations throughout the booklet, with words by David Fair. As per Volume 1', all three records are combined together in a 3CD package.
Be careful. You can't unlearn information. I think that the best that you can hope for is a bad memory, but our brains are very remarkable and it is very difficult to actually unlearn something. I came upon this realization too late to help me with visual arts. I had already been taught about proportions and perspective. It's very hard to draw someone in the background larger than their friend in the foreground. Anyone farther away would look smaller.
That is how our eyes see them and my brain knows this. I cannot turn off this knowledge and draw it the other way around. I can choose to ignore it, but that is not the same. That is a strategy for dealing with the situation, but not as freeing as simple ignorance would be. It is a nagging strategy that whispers the rules and acknowledges your participation in their breaking. Luckily, with music, I do not carry the burden of knowledge. I was not educated in its terms and rules. I am not bound by its limits. I know that I have guitar skills. I have played around with one enough to know what feels right to me. If I were to turn it upside down and attempt to play it in a left handed manner, my ability would feel awkward and diminished. I am not unskilled, I am merely untrained. For me, this is the ideal situation.
Others may prefer acquiring rules and limits. I prefer that my art be directed by my heart rather than my brain. I have played in bands for nearly 40 years. In all of that time I have only learned three chords. I have resisted acquiring more. If I continue at this rate I am at risk of knowing six chords forty years from now. Instead, I am consciously slowing down. Hopefully in four decades I will remember even less about music convention than I know today.
Forty years is a long time to wait. In the meantime, here's Half Japanese Vol 2. It might get better in the future, but Vol 2 is here already. David Fair.
Track listings :
Music to Strip By'Disc 1:
1. Stripping for Cash
2. Thick and Thin
3. Diary
4. Big Mistake
5. Hot Dog and Hot Damn
6. The Price Was Right But The Door Was Wrong
7. Blue Monday
8. U.S.Teens are Spoiled Bums
9. Point / Counterpoint
10. Sex At Your Parent's House
11. The Last Straw
12. Gator Bait
13. La Bamba
14. Colleen
15. Ouija Board Summons Satan
16. You Must Obey Me
17. Salt and Pepper
18. Ancient Life
19. Silver and Katherine
20. Money To Burn
21. Hidden Charms
22. How
23. My Sordid Past
24. Silver And Katherine
25. Dusk to Dawn
26. Everybody Knows
27. Go Go Go Go Go
28. Scratch
29. Every Hour
30. Hey
31. Mongolian Stretcher
32. Colleen
33. Salt and Pepper
34. T For Texas
35. Terminator
36. Shiek of Araby.
Disc 2 : Charmed Life':
1. Said and Done
2. Penny In The Fountain
3. Evidence
4. Vietnam
5. Roman Candles
6. Love At First Sight
7. Snake Line
8. Bright Lights, Big City
9. Face Rake
10. Later In A Magazine
11. Red Dress
12. Charmed Life
13. Day And Night
14. One Million Kisses
15. Terminator
16. I'll Change My Style
17. Charmed Life
18. Trouble In The Water
19. Miracles Happen Every Day
20. Fortunate
21. Poetic License
22. Day And Night
23. One Million Kisses
24. Madonna Nude
25. I'll Change My Style
26. George Steele
27. Real Cool Time
28. How Many More Years
29. King Kong Burgundy
30. Something New In The Ring
31. Terminator
Disc 3 : The Band That Would Be King':
1. Open Your Eyes / Close Your Eyes
2. Daytona Beach
3. Lucky Star
4. Some Things Last A Long time
5. My Most Embarrassing Moment
6. Buried Treasure
7. Open Book
8. Little Records
9. Deadly Alien Spawn
10. Postcard From Far Away
11. Ventriloquism
12. Something in the Wind
13. Bingo's Not His Name-o
14. Put Some Sugar On It
15. What More Can I Do
16. Brand New Moon
17. Another World
18. Every Word Is True
19. I Live For Love
20. Werewolf
21. Ride Ride Ride
22. Sugarcane
23. I Wish I May
24. Ashes On The Ground
25. Curse of the Doll People
26. Horsesshoes
27. BlueBirds
28. Frankenstein Meets Billy the Kid
29. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
30. Africans Built The Pyramids
31. Better Than Before
32. Daytona
33. Back Home
34. Mule Skinner Blues
35. Sugarcane
36. Jump Up
37. Postcard From Far Away
38. Big Wheels
39. Ordeal
40. Jump Down
41. Cowboys
42. Man Without A Head
The LPs are wrapped together in a heavy wide spine outer sleeve with a specially designed paper cut image by Jad Fair, who also provides more illustrations throughout the booklet, with words by David Fair. As per Volume 1', all three records are combined together in a 3CD package.
Be careful. You can't unlearn information. I think that the best that you can hope for is a bad memory, but our brains are very remarkable and it is very difficult to actually unlearn something. I came upon this realization too late to help me with visual arts. I had already been taught about proportions and perspective. It's very hard to draw someone in the background larger than their friend in the foreground. Anyone farther away would look smaller.
That is how our eyes see them and my brain knows this. I cannot turn off this knowledge and draw it the other way around. I can choose to ignore it, but that is not the same. That is a strategy for dealing with the situation, but not as freeing as simple ignorance would be. It is a nagging strategy that whispers the rules and acknowledges your participation in their breaking. Luckily, with music, I do not carry the burden of knowledge. I was not educated in its terms and rules. I am not bound by its limits. I know that I have guitar skills. I have played around with one enough to know what feels right to me. If I were to turn it upside down and attempt to play it in a left handed manner, my ability would feel awkward and diminished. I am not unskilled, I am merely untrained. For me, this is the ideal situation.
Others may prefer acquiring rules and limits. I prefer that my art be directed by my heart rather than my brain. I have played in bands for nearly 40 years. In all of that time I have only learned three chords. I have resisted acquiring more. If I continue at this rate I am at risk of knowing six chords forty years from now. Instead, I am consciously slowing down. Hopefully in four decades I will remember even less about music convention than I know today.
Forty years is a long time to wait. In the meantime, here's Half Japanese Vol 2. It might get better in the future, but Vol 2 is here already. David Fair.
Track listings :
Music to Strip By'Disc 1:
1. Stripping for Cash
2. Thick and Thin
3. Diary
4. Big Mistake
5. Hot Dog and Hot Damn
6. The Price Was Right But The Door Was Wrong
7. Blue Monday
8. U.S.Teens are Spoiled Bums
9. Point / Counterpoint
10. Sex At Your Parent's House
11. The Last Straw
12. Gator Bait
13. La Bamba
14. Colleen
15. Ouija Board Summons Satan
16. You Must Obey Me
17. Salt and Pepper
18. Ancient Life
19. Silver and Katherine
20. Money To Burn
21. Hidden Charms
22. How
23. My Sordid Past
24. Silver And Katherine
25. Dusk to Dawn
26. Everybody Knows
27. Go Go Go Go Go
28. Scratch
29. Every Hour
30. Hey
31. Mongolian Stretcher
32. Colleen
33. Salt and Pepper
34. T For Texas
35. Terminator
36. Shiek of Araby.
Disc 2 : Charmed Life':
1. Said and Done
2. Penny In The Fountain
3. Evidence
4. Vietnam
5. Roman Candles
6. Love At First Sight
7. Snake Line
8. Bright Lights, Big City
9. Face Rake
10. Later In A Magazine
11. Red Dress
12. Charmed Life
13. Day And Night
14. One Million Kisses
15. Terminator
16. I'll Change My Style
17. Charmed Life
18. Trouble In The Water
19. Miracles Happen Every Day
20. Fortunate
21. Poetic License
22. Day And Night
23. One Million Kisses
24. Madonna Nude
25. I'll Change My Style
26. George Steele
27. Real Cool Time
28. How Many More Years
29. King Kong Burgundy
30. Something New In The Ring
31. Terminator
Disc 3 : The Band That Would Be King':
1. Open Your Eyes / Close Your Eyes
2. Daytona Beach
3. Lucky Star
4. Some Things Last A Long time
5. My Most Embarrassing Moment
6. Buried Treasure
7. Open Book
8. Little Records
9. Deadly Alien Spawn
10. Postcard From Far Away
11. Ventriloquism
12. Something in the Wind
13. Bingo's Not His Name-o
14. Put Some Sugar On It
15. What More Can I Do
16. Brand New Moon
17. Another World
18. Every Word Is True
19. I Live For Love
20. Werewolf
21. Ride Ride Ride
22. Sugarcane
23. I Wish I May
24. Ashes On The Ground
25. Curse of the Doll People
26. Horsesshoes
27. BlueBirds
28. Frankenstein Meets Billy the Kid
29. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
30. Africans Built The Pyramids
31. Better Than Before
32. Daytona
33. Back Home
34. Mule Skinner Blues
35. Sugarcane
36. Jump Up
37. Postcard From Far Away
38. Big Wheels
39. Ordeal
40. Jump Down
41. Cowboys
42. Man Without A Head
Related products
-
On saleNew Zealand/New York City legends Bailterspace, offer up their best album to date with their first new recordings in 13 years. The band were once described by Pitchfork as "simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic" and 'Strobosphere' emerges at a time when the band's trailblazing sound has never been more relevant.Visit product page →
Revered as one of the loudest and most intense live bands of all-time, they haven't lost any of their bite or their love of tone, dissonance, and melody. The first single "No Sense" darts, snaps and swirls with alternating snare cracks, atmospheric surges and dirty buzz, featuring Parker's distinctive vocals. -
Reissue, note new price, release date, catalogue numbers & barcodes. 'One of underground rock's most extraordinary enigmas.' The Quietus.Visit product page →
First time on Double Silver Vinyl.
Critical praise from Pitchfork, Clash, The Wire, Q Magazine and more upon release. New inverted LTD edition artwork.
Fire re-issue Bardo Pond's eponymous eighth studio album from 2010, their debut for Fire from way back when. A lysergic brain wrestler in which the Pennsylvanian drone outfit perfect their modal sound. Teasing the artistry of LaMonte Young and Terry Riley into a guitar shaped cauldron, the album's compulsive reverbed guitar shapes slowly simmer behind Isobel Sollenberger's esoteric vocals 'Like hearing a tannoy at a station in the voice of Jesus.' The Quietus.
A claustrophobic stuttering raga interlocks with their psychedelic leanings best exemplified on Cracker Wrist'which sounds like something that's intentionally always just about to happen/and/or spin back in time.
Featuring lengthy fully nurtured play offs between the quintet Bardo Pond'is a heady statement that's like the most wholesome kind of vegan-friendly mushroom trips.
Pitchfork reckons they're 'playing fuzzed out stoner dreams.' Vice's musical brother Noisey likens them to 'Fugazi On Acid.'
Allmusic intervenes with: 'These are epic, soaring psychedelic ambient power-drone rock noise melodies where partially buried, distant female vocals are laced throughout a roaring, murky/sludge guitar soundscape.'
Tracklisting:
1. Just Once
2. Don't Know About You
3. Sleeping
4. Undone
5. Cracker Wrist
6. The Stars Behind
7. Wayne's Tune -
1000 only. Purple vinyl edition. First time on vinyl since initial press in 1995.Visit product page →
Big Laughing Jym'follows 1994's Bufo Alvarius'and between 1996's Amanita', inducing tenebral states with their sludgy yet beguiling psychedelic rock.
On '"Dispersion" and "Clearhead" whirlpools of bass, feedback-clogged flute, and John and Michael Gibbons' high-dosage, irradiated guitars, are definitive Pond.' (AllMusic).
The record also includes Hummingbird Mountain II (A Return Trip') and Dragonfly'.
'Playing fuzzed out stuff of stoner dreams since the mid 90s.' Pitchfork
'Today they stand as an elder statesman at the epicentre of an international underground of psychedelic extremists' Sunday Times
'They're still making jaw-droppingly visceral spine-tingling music' Shindig
Tracklisting:
1. Dispersion
2. Respite
3. Clearhead
4. Champ
5. Soaked
6. Hummingbird Mountain II
7. BLJ -
LP with download postcard, plain black inner.Visit product page →
So complex and substance-affected was their evolution, Bardo Pond have been creating their dreamy riffs for 26 years alongside a myriad of side projects and their prolific Record Store Day releases.
Returning with a career defining album, Under The Pines'sees them delve into the subconscious with their transcending cosmic post-rock. Over 41 minutes The Pond's fermentation, their languid throb and textured groove (flute, violin, Isobel Sollenberger's haunting vocals) sounds like cathartic dream pop wrapped in a delicately constructed barbwire shroud.
'Playing fuzzed out stuff of stoner dreams since the mid 90s,' (thanks Pitchfork) and beyond the mentions of free jazz, the avant garde, Sun Ra and The Book Of The Dead, Bardo Pond's remarkable career and exemplary output has seen them gain fans from all corners of the pond.
In 2010 Lou Reed and his wife Laurie Anderson invited them to perform at the Vivid festival they curated at the Sydney Opera House, not forgetting they were recently handpicked to support Jesus & Mary Chain at London's Roundhouse as part of Mogwai's 20th Anniversary and Stewart Lee chose them for the All Tomorrow's Parties festival which he curated just last year.
Hailed for their space rock, drone, shoegaze, noise and/or psychedelia, and in a super lengthy interview in Ptolemaic Terrascope enthused (back in 2001) that they were somewhere between John Cage's silence on 4'33 and Japanese noisenik Merzbow's total ear splitting cacophony.
One of their finest albums to date and nearly three decades on, Bardo Pond are in it for the long haul and remain one of the most significant underground rock bands of our time.
Tracklisting:
1. Crossover
2. Out Of Reach
3. My Eyes Out
4. Moment To Moment
5. Under The Pines
6. Effigy
v
