NINNIGASHI - “Heavy Way” LPNinnigashi Heavy Way LP (Time Capsule, 2024) "A long lost Japanese acid folk gem, Niningashis 1974 private press debut Heavy Way shimmers with originality, deft song writing and a dream like groove. Although he was training as a pharmacist, Kazuhisa Okubo was much more interested in prescribing musical medicine. A coming of age album, Heavy Way captured a turning point in Okubos life, and Japanese society more widely as a nostalgia for the pastoral

by the ways of intuition

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unlikely as it is to find its way into the tote bags of too many devoted Hebdenites

Alastair Galbraith - Orb CD (Next Best Way

and live shows

and if they couldn't quite remember if they were running towards something or away from something

the caveman has dumped the yak for the cavewoman

more introverted sonic language that was really impressed with itself

imbuing the spacious ambience pioneered by label bosses Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald with a frosty

The latter uses the same layout as the sticker sheets

releasing music on labels like Black Acre

The three represent a remarkable joining of distinct artistic talent and creative vision