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Japanese psychedelic rock band. FUKUOKA Rinji: vocals, guitar YAMAZAKI Taiga: guitar Louis INAGE: bass MOROHASHI Shigeki: drums

Releases


Majutsu no Niwa - The Night Before -

Their 6th and so far the best work of MAJUTSU NO NIWA that warns the perishing modern civilization.
With their usual hard psychedelic tunes to silent improvisation, this album has the various and wide range of their music, including a NY flavored homage to Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell’s “Memories of Fire”, covers such as Iggy & The Stooges’ “Search & Destroy” and more.



artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: The Night Before

format: CD(+BONUS DVD)

label: Pataphysique Records, Captain Trip Records

number: DD-012, CTCD-686






TRACKS:
1. Tokyo Zero Fighter
2. Monju
3. Melting Maitreya
4.Tropics, Ionized Jungle, Peeping Auroras
5. Memories of Fire
6. Search & Destroy
7. The Night Before











 Michel Henritzi | Fukuoka Rinji - Le Jardin Bizarre -

artist: Michel Henritzi | Fukuoka Rinji
label: An’archives
format: CD silkscreened gatefold cover / ltd 200 copies
Le Jardin Bizarre » (the odd garden) is the follow up to the album “Outside Darkness”, released in 2011 by PSF. It is a hollow album, stretching out long rests in which a sticky melancholy, an infinite sadness amplifies itself. 6 tracks dark as so many gardens – gardens seen through night, 6 shades of black, 6 colours of silence. While “Outside Darkness” appeared like a shadow cast over Fukushima, “Le Jardin Bizarre” is it’s elegy. 
 isquieting calligrams made of tight, feverish strings, like black ink lines on a blank white page. Melodies as manifold as so many little pieces of night music, perforated by  evouring rests, tunes dying in the echo. “Le Jardin Bizarre” is an asphyxiated, modern blues album - Mono No Aware or the melancholy of our times.


OVERHANG PARTY -COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS-



artist: OVERHANG PARTY
title: COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS
price: 24.99USD
num: IMPREC347
label: IMPORTANT RECORDS
format: 4CD
Overhang Party is criminally overlooked. From the heavily psychedelic noise-rock of their first album to the piano-rock anthems of 4, Overhang Party was somehow impossibly consistent and seamless. This box set flows as an even, open document of this fearless and inventive Japanese rock group. For a quick reference of the sonic distances this group has traveled (and the skills they posses) stream Bass Oscillations from the first record and then skip straight to Kizashi on 4.
The complete Studio Recordings of Overhang Party includes each of their studio albums (each with a bonus track) and their unreleased final recording sessions. While this 4 CD set is sure to please aficionados of Japanese underground rock The biggest surprise, however, will be for the uninitiated who can finally confront the groups emotional depth and stylistic breadth head on.
Japan's overhang party were always one of their country's most interesting, multifaceted and imaginative musical units, able to weave crawling rhythms and blown out psych feedback into full on rock anthems.
Absolutely essential listening for fans of Japanese underground rock.
Overhang Partyは犯罪的にも見落とされてきた。1stのヘヴィーなサイケデリック・ノイズロックからピアノロックの讃歌である4まで、彼らの保っている一貫性は、兎に角、信じられない程だ。このボックスセットは、恐れを知らぬ独創的な日本のロック・グループの整然としたドキュメントである。まず、音速の領域にある彼らの音楽を、最初のアルバムの「ベースオシレイション」、そして、次に4の「兆し」と聴き進むことをお勧めする。Overhang Party complete Studio Recordingsには、彼等のスタジオ・アルバムの総て(各作品ボーナス・トラック有)と未リリースであった最後のレコーディング・セッションが含まれている。この4枚組CDセットは、日本のアンダーグラウンド・ロック・ファンへとんでもない驚きを与えるとともに、これまで彼等に対する知識の無かった人達も、深い感情とアプローチの幅の広さに直面させられることになるだろう。日本のOverhang Partyは、常にその彼らの国においても最も興味深く多面的で創意に富んだユニットであり、這いつくばったリズムを織り込み、サイケなフィードバックを全面的にロックの讃歌として吹き出したバンドであった。
日本のアンダーグラウンド・ロックに興味がある方々に是非とも聴いてもらいたい作品だ。
translated by Keiko Higuchi

TRACK LISTING
Overhang Party 1
1. Twins of Sun
2. Bass Oscillation3. One's Double
4. Air
5. In the Direction of the Night
Bonus track:
6. G House Blues
Overhang Party 2
1. Stimulant Night
2. My Blue Heaven3. La Fièvre
4. No Traveler Returns
5. Falling
6. Which is the Shadow
7. Dreams Scream Together
Bonus track:
8. My Blue Heaven
Overhang Party 4
1. Kizashi
2. Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within)3. Barcelona
4. Then the Ship Sank
5. Winter Lovers
6. Mirror
7. G House Blues
Bonus Track:
8. Le Fantôme de la Liberté
Overhang Party Last Recording
1. Prayer of a Fool
2. Wolf, Scorpion, Earth Fang
3. Pyramid
4. Marseille
5. Who are you?
6. Improvisation 


Majutsu no Niwa - FRONTERA -


artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: FRONTERA
price: 3200yen
num: NV-002
label: NEW VAGUE RECORDS
format: 2LP


The vinyl version of FRONTERA was initiated by Joel Nickelson of NEW VAGUE RECORDS, but after his sudden death on the 25th of July, 2012, just before its completion, SIWA RECORDS took over the rest of the work and now finally released.
http://www.siwarecords.com/siwanews.html
newvague@siwarecords.com
It’s the complete version of over 80 minutes 2-CD set, in its best quality with gatefold cover. As opposed to the original CD, the order of some songs on the side B have been altered, and one song “Lurking All Over”has been added on the side C.
Deluxe 2LP reissue of the first studio album by Majustu No Niwa (the band that rose from the ashes of the mighty Overhang Party). Originally released on a Japanese only CD this vinyl version includes an extra track form the same sessions left off the cd due to time constraints. We get crunching psychedelic rock, an acoustic comedown then a final 22+ minute feedback and electronics laden journey into the void. Pressed on RTI HQ180 gram vinyl (the only 180gm produced in the US that matters) and housed in a heavy tip-on gatefold jacket. All around a beautifully presented item and it comes into the world in a limited edition of 500.
Earlier this year I was asked by my friend Joel Nickelson if I would screenprint a cover for the first project on a record label he was starting. Sadly just as his first two projects were reaching completion Joel suffered a massive stroke that cut short his life at the age of 39. In his memory and in order to help his family recoup their investment in the projects I offered to help finish them up and get them out into the world. 
-siwa records-


Majutsu no Niwa - Volume Ⅴ, Part Ⅰ・ⅡThe Visionaries' Sand Zone/With à qui avec Gabriel -

“Stillness and movement” and “lightness and darkness”--- the chaos of a city flickering with lights and the tranquility of a desolate seashore. Majutsu no Niwa is now releasing 2 CDs simultaneously of its 5th work--- crystallizing those two aspects of “singing”, PartⅠ“The Visionaries’ Sand Zone” and PartⅡ“With à qui avec Gabriel” in a fine paper sleeve. 2 years have gone during the recording in studio with a careful mixing and mastering. PartⅠhas a ceaseless waves or their characteristic “hard” Rock ’n Roll. For PartⅡ with full of acid folk color, à qui avec Gabriel, the female accordionist, has joined the band. Both CDs include the previous bassist, Kageyama Hiroyuki.



artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: Volume Ⅴ, Part Ⅰ The Visionaries' Sand Zone
price: 14USD
num: TRCD-MA006
label: there-Musik Atlachformat: CD
TRACKS:
1.Desolate Seashore
2.The Call of Thanatos
3.Tick Tack
4.Falling
5.On Black Water
6.Spring Storms
7.Pyramid
8.Without Saying A Word




artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: Volume Ⅴ, Part Ⅱ With a` qui avec Gabriel
price: 14USD
num: TRCD-MA007
label: there-Musik Atlach
format: CD

TRACKS:
1.Le Bruit de la Mer
2.Marseille
3.Wolf, Scorpion, Earth Fang
4.Whither
5.Grand Okeanos
6.A Gust of Wind


Majutsu no Niwa - Sylvania 7027 Live-



artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: - Sylvania 7027 Live-

num: 8mm 049
label: 8mm Records
format: LP
Debut vinyl release for Majutsu No Niwa, band led by guitarist and songwriter Rinji Fukuoka, already funding member of Tokyo’s legends Overhang Party. Making their own the formula that If a band rocks, then it rocks live, Majutsu No Niwa (litterally ‘magical garden’) recorded this new album live in concert, in order to recreate on LP the astonishing experience that their live set is. Four tracks of pure sonic catharsis, epic songs, cosmic rock, psychic delirium, including a classic tokyo-style ballad, for one of the loudest bands in the planet. Already a cult!
TRACKS:
A1 Fake Kraut No.2 
A2 Frontera 
B1 Marseille 
B2 Turn To Flames



Michel Henritzi & Fukuoka Rinji - outside darkness -




artist: Michel Henritzi & Fukuoka Rinji

title: outside darkness
num: PSFD-198
label: PSF
format: CD
A stark and moving collaboration between the French avant-garde guitarist Michel Henritzi and Fukuoka Rinji, formerly of Overhang Party and currently of Majutsu no Niwa.
The track titles of their first duo album limn a cosmos out of joint, hopeless and despairing - suns in eclipse, falling angels, the ghosts of Fukushima. The mood is emphasized in the bleak, dystopian photography of the jacket with its bare, wintry trees and landscapes devoid of human presence. The music translates these ideas into actuality, echoed and stark sonorities that question, lament, mourn. Henritzi's lapsteel and guitar summon up grey drone fields, shimmering with baleful energy over which Fukuoka floats elegiac, writhing lines of violin and emotionally resonant yet wordless vocals.
"A deep stillness is apparent in Michel's music. It’s not something he has come to possess through playing electric guitar, rather it's more like an innate and very important part of his temperament. Either way, it's an extremely rare quality even among artists." - Kazuki Tomokawa -


Majutsu no Niwa new release - Ecstatic Crystallization -



artist: Majutsu no Niwa
title: Ecstatic Crystallization

num: MA009 / CS 60
label: MUSIK ATLACH / Sloow Tapes
format: CD/ TAPEMetempsychosis of FUKUOKA Rinji, Overhang Party~Majutsu no Niwa which began by unexpected 'La Fièvre' passed through 'Serchin' for my Layline' 'La Vena'and reached 'Ecstatic Crystallization'.
The rearguard Rock having neither the progress nor the step backward, or aesthetics of reactionary conservatism. The heavy peals (The thunder) of 'Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung' or 'Ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen'.
Continuo which continues drifting in the depths of the pop pieces to hear in past issue.
Experience eternal rock'n roll theater 'now come out'.
Feedback drenched guitarnoise drones by Rinji Fukuoka’s Majutsu no Niwa, his follow-up band to the legendary Overhang Party. A magical garden of post-Velvet doom stripped to the bare essentials by way of the Japanese psyche. 100 copies.
-sloow tapes-


Majutsu no Niwa - FRONTERA -



artist: Majutsu no Niwa

title: FRONTERA
num: TRCD-MA005
label: there-MUSIK ATLACH
format: CDA new unit 'Majutsu no Niwa' by Rinji Fukuoka(ex.Overhang Party). This is their second album and first full length studio album. They add lyrical and hard psychedelic sound to experimental sound of Overhang Party. Extreme guitar and the dynamic rhythm ensemble face off to delicate and strong-willed song, creates general fortitude sounds.
TRACKS:
1.AFUNRUPARO
2.Turn to Flames
3.FRONTERA
4.Journey to the End of the Night
5.Majutsu no Niwa ( Magikal Garden )
6.Thousands of Nights, Thousands of Days
7.Night Cruise
8.Beyond the Steel Rails
9.La Vena


Majutsu no Niwa - At the End of Summer -



artist: Majutsu no Niwa

title: At the End of Summer
num: TRCD-MA004
label: there-MUSIK ATLACH
format: CD
Majutsu no Niwa is the new psychedelic rock band which Rinji Fukuoka of OVERHANG PARTY which stopped the activity at the beginning of 2008 leads. This album extracted from live show in this year have variety, from deep song and more vivid rock instrumental to heavy feedback drone.

TRACKS:
1. Magikal Garden
2. Grand Okeanos
3. Desolate seashore- At the End of Summer
4. Whither
5. Beyond the steel rails
6. Zawameki Ugomeki
7. A Gust of Wind
8. Desolate seashore- Early autumn


JUNKO - AYA ONISHI - RINJI FUKUOKA - MICHEL HENRITZI "Live at Penguin House, Tokyo, 2007"

artist: JUNKO - AYA ONISHI - RINJI FUKUOKA - MICHEL HENRITZI
title: Live at Penguin House, Tokyo, 2007
label: An'archives
format: CDR