Chee Shimizu - Obscure Sound (a music book)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_lub0vIMuc

I've been looking for a physical copy of Eve's Canto Aberto MPB album hearing this track in a Hunee mix about a year ago. It's in Obscure Music, too. No luck. It's not even listed on Discogs, no reissues either. Lovely song though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=124&v=nzQ0CTwshHU

Oops, maybe now it'll embed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQ0CTwshHU

it seems likes the great apple music playlists that Bamboohouses was kind enough to create are down. did anyone get a chance to download or mirror them? was still enjoying shuffling through them. wish i would have created my own local copy before they disappeared!

I never even knew that Dome put out other people's records, but I'm sure I must have known that at one point.

― MaresNest, Friday, 28 July 2017 09:40 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just that, the A.C. Marias 7" and also the highly recommended Desmond Simmons "Alone On Penguin Island" album.

― stirmonster, Friday, 28 July 2017 10:08 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's also the album by Michael O'Shea, who I believe they discovered busking. Never seen a vinyl copy though.

https://img.discogs.com/Tn-tKHfm4tJFMr942-GbM9uUJ9w=/fit-in/200x200/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-167429-1272017742.jpeg.jpg

Please update this incredible thread regularly kthxbye.

it seems likes the great apple music playlists that Bamboohouses was kind enough to create are down. did anyone get a chance to download or mirror them? was still enjoying shuffling through them. wish i would have created my own local copy before they disappeared!

― dsb, Saturday, 13 October 2018 16:20 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm so sorry about that. I was on a free Apple Music trial through my phone provider that I chose not to continue, but I didn't think it would nuke all those playlists with immediate effect and that I'd at least get some warning or be able to back them up. I'm sorry for any problems this has caused anyone.

If it's any consolation, this person - https://open.spotify.com/user/gh_cl?si=htvNwcoUTSuucOpyz_GiSQ - has done the same thing on Spotify, alongside many other great playlists. I'm convinced that if I ever met gh_cl we'd be really good mates, our tastes are astonishingly similar.

There's also the album by Michael O'Shea, who I believe they discovered busking. Never seen a vinyl copy though

Indeed! I'm not sure how I missed that one out as The Michael O'Shea (which is incredible) is one of my most listened to records. It is being reissued shortly, apparently.

In other news, i have heard that Obscure Sound 2 is coming soon.

Nice, that's good news! Curious to see what it'll be like/if there'll be any changes in its approach. I still regularly dip into the lists (posted on Discogs) for new discoveries and will look up random things from his instagram account from time to time. The latest one which I'll bump here is this Saada Bonaire album:

https://www.discogs.com/Sa%C3%A2da-Bonaire-Sa%C3%A2da-Bonaire/release/5106716

Fingers crossed he may take it as an opportunity to do another printing of the first one.

this looks U&K: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4088-kankyo-ongaku-japanese-ambient-environmental-new-age-music-1980-1990

holy shit that packaging is irresistible to me

yeah that looks great

it is v pretty

Oh wow, way to go LITA!!!

I've reactivated my Apple Music subscription, for now at least, so I spent a bit of time this morning rebuilding the Obscure Sound playlists. Here's the master one with everything on it; the chapter-by-chapter ones are on my Apple Music profile.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/playlist/obscure-sound/pl.u-RRbV7YVFxxNWe3

Now that I know that cancelling your subscription nukes all the playlists, I'll try and give everyone advance warning next time!

Sorry to be a pain, but I'm probably going to let my Apple Music subscription lapse again at the end of the month as I'm not using it as much as I'd hope. I know a couple of people are following these playlists, so if it's anyone here please do copy/back them up now!

Thanks again for putting these together! i have reposted them so that the link will still be active, so if anyone on apple music is interested:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/obscure-sound/pl.u-V9D73lKhWbB2o

categorized sub lists on my page: https://itunes.apple.com/profile/rawconverter

https://youtu.be/dbq4P2_XkdI

for any Glen Velez fans out there, this looks great - a collection of tracks from his 1st three solo LPs on CMP:

https://emotional-rescue.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-season

Man Emotional Rescue is on a goddamn tear

New edition of Obscure Sound is on its way (!!!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ZglqbACqd/

“Obscure Sound” record guide book is coming back again as revised edition in February 21st 2020. 200 record reviews left on first edition, and about 600 new reviews added. Further long interview with Yasuaki Shimizu, feature articles for ECM, japanese ambient/new age, spanish experimental/new age music appered. Regular reviews are inheriting unique categories likes organic, ethnic, psychedelic, spiritual, experimental, cosmic, meditative, and floating.
Please email us, if you would like to order this. Will get you back information. We accept PayPal payment.

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author : Chee Shimizu
deformation A5 / 248 pages (full color)
price : 2,530 JPY
ISBN978-4-8456-3409-5
publisher : Ritto Music co., ltd.
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CONTENTS：
THE WORLD OF YASUAKI SHIMIZU（with interview）／JAPANESE AMBIENT & NEW AGE／SPECIFICITY OF ECM／ACCIDENTAL MUSIC IN SPAIN／ORGANIC／ETHNIC／PSYCHEDELIC／SPIRITUAL／EXPERIMENTAL／COSMIC／MEDITATIVE／FLOATING

It's xmas!!!

amazing, thanks for sharing

Immediately sent an e-mail to order a copy (have yet to hear back).

dead link! Need to order this. Do you remember the email address you used?

link to Chimizu's shop

Looks like a beautiful resource but... no English translation?

^^ that's my question too

i think the original edition was all in japanese apart from the titles, guessing that this will be the same

there's always word lens though (anyone ever used it?):

https://www.techradar.com/news/google-word-lens-ar-app-now-translates-japanese

I've been deliberately avoiding this book and the associated playlists because I'm afraid that it'll just take up too much of my time and probably money. Not sure if I'll be able to resist much longer.

I'm not even halfway through the ILM top 100 ambient albums yet

Looks like a beautiful resource but... no English translation?

all I see is instructions for overseas ordering?

xpost I was asking whether the book itself will be in English

ah sorry I misunderstood. As far as I know the texts are Japanese, with English translations for titles, dates and label information.

That's what I understood as well. I got a nice reply back and have a copy reserved for February 2020.

Same here. Thanks for the heads up.

I am going to check out his record store in Tokyo in March. Excited! Anyone been?

wow, plz report back!

Have not visited the store but he posts new arrivals regularly on his IG. Looks like a stellar shop.

Shipping now!

"+ tape" it said in the mail! That'll be the "special gift" then? Stoked.

sure looks like it

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8YS08oA_zC/

awesome

YSI?

Can't wait for this.

My copy has arrived! With cassette. Such a beautiful book, and the new chapters (on Yasuaki Shimizu, ECM, Japanese ambient etc) seem pretty bang on with what I want to listen to right now...

Anyone want to do a cover-to-cover listening thread?

BTW, I think some selections from the previous edition have been removed - the Mellow, Groovy, Tropical chapters are gone, and at a quick glance, Frida's Something's Going On has been removed...

ah i keep forgetting to order this! thanks for the reminder, when i get my copy i would be happy to embark upon a listening odyssey