Chee Shimizu - Obscure Sound (a music book)

My cassette is numbered 189/200, so looks like I got lucky. Reminds me I really must give it another listen.

i now have my Obscure Sounds! and my Walearic Disc Guide! really looking forward to digging through those with youtube accompaniment once my job stops being a whirlwind of panic

thank you so much bamboohouses! now all I need is a trackless, I expect it will pop up on Discogs soon enough

when I was looking for it I realized that Chee Shimizu has some other, older mixes as well

ffs trackLIST

Got my book delivered on Friday with the cassette (181/200). Haven’t had a chance to dig into either with my 4yo son bouncing off the walls due to COVID induced cabin fever. Hopefully soon.

few days ago a friend dropped off a tape deck, so i was finally able to hear the mix — it’s good !

it'll take a million years to read it with Google Lens.

not sure exactly what this is but will look into if that means having a rough translation of the blurbs. as is i’ve been enjoying paging through at random and then digging around on youtube or wherever to find a sound clip

How are you all reading this? Am I the only person who doesn't read Japanese? Want this book very badly but not to look at pictures.

Using the Google Lens app, you can get surprisingly decent translations by hovering your phone camera over the text. Might be a bit hard to read it cover to cover this way, but good for individual listings. Check it out!

Thanks for the tip cooldix. Never even realized this was a thing. Also I have the Wa-learic book onroute so this will be extremely handy for both books. Cheers!

OK, I just made my first random purchase based on this, and it's amazing (thanks Facebook vinyl trading group). Morgan Fisher - 'Flow Overflow'. Former Mott the Hoople (!) keyboardist moves to Tokyo and makes ambient/environmental/TV commercial music not unlike Yoshimura and co. I'll have to make a vinyl rip cos the only online I could find is from an uptight Soulseeker doing FLAC trade-only. His 'Water Music' is on social media and also quite lovely.

Anyone else made any discoveries?

Social media... I mean, streaming services.

I still dig the Glen Velez and Per Tjernberg records I discovered through that Spotify playlist

the mixtape is up on Discogs now, but with no tracklist - get to work, trainspotters!

https://www.discogs.com/Chee-Shimizu-Obscure-Sound-Revised-Edition/release/14978065

I'd love to hear the morgan fisher record if you ever get around to ripping it. Water music is nice.

Hey Deflatormouse (and anyone interested), I've made a vinyl rip of the Morgan Fisher record. Not sure the best way to share?

Some five months later but it arrived today and I love it! Seriously impressed with all obscure Dutch releases I've never even heard of.

Google translate lens app actually works, though it's tiresome to read the whole book in one go like that. The blurbs have a nice bitsize though. Looking forward to starting with the ambient section first. Will have to make sure slsk has enough feul in the tank to help me track some of this stuff down!

this Priscilla Ermel retrospective is really hitting the "obscure sound" sweet spot for me atm

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/origens-da-luz

i finally got round to listening to Chee's tape that comes with the book.

!@%$?

i got about two thirds through side 1. he's trolling with this, isn't he?

how so?? The tape is on my Discogs wantlist but of course it never turns up

lotta smooth acoustic guitars? that’s the impression I got surfing through the albums in the book

xp that was a legit q, haven’t heard it myself

it is the opposite of smooth acoustic guitars. more musique concrete head frying collage with the odd lapse into pleasant percussion before some more ganrly spoken word bit kicks in again. It slightly reminded me of early Current 93 type sound collages which I like just fine but wasn't really expecting here.

gnarly!

as I noted on the Discogs page, I would love to see even a partial tracklist of this cuz I have no fuckin clue

Side 2 is something else entirely. I would also love a tracklist of this side.

Not sure what thread to put this in tbh, but lost yasuaki shimizu album from 1984 being released on palto flats next year, sleevenotes by yer man chee shimizu:

https://ra.co/news/76561

there's a preview clip at the end of that story and lemme tell you, it sounds great

That clip sounds completely amazing! Thanks

Not sure what thread to put this in tbh, but lost yasuaki shimizu album from 1984 being released on palto flats next year, sleevenotes by yer man chee shimizu:

https://ra.co/news/76561🕸

this is absolutely incredible

do believe the hype.

Yep

cosign