span over a particularly fruitful period in the composer's career

Opening track “Ex Machina” with its ebbs and flows

their spiral idols and funeral decorations a meticulous method for transmuting to something else

” bridging the gap between Shaffer’s earlier work and the clarity of Patience

flickering sequencers and oscillations of luminous channels

V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LP Stoner span over a particularly fruitfulEmerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the rykka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s rykka recordings follows on from the Kouta Katsutaro tape we put out a couple of years back, and further captures the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread