About

The long-awaited first release on vinyl of the indie masterpiece released by Japanese cross-border music group Tsuki No Wa in 2000. The labyrinth of Japanese independent music keeps twisting and turning. Tsuki no Wa’s Ninth Elegy is a case in point. It’s one of those releases that seems to up-end every thing we thought we knew, hiding in plain sight, out-of-time and floating free of taste and influence. It’s a hard experience to unpick. Spectral and distant but heartbreakingly overwrought, Fuminosuke’s voice is a marvel. The voice is all: angry, pleading, wraithlike or resigned. Broadly it exists somewhere in relation to jazz, blues and Latin: saxophone, guitar, upright bass, organ, strings, drums. But it floats at ground level through a haunted apartment, constantly destabilised by odd jump cuts, dubby atmospherics and nods to psychedelic pop or spooked exotica. — via All Night Flight

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Label: First on Vinyl 
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Reissued: 2023 / Original Release: 2000
Genre: Jazz, Folk
Style: Contemporary Jazz, Folk

File under: Avant Garde / Free Jazz
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