Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki - New Sense of HearingFor Fans of: John Cage, Keiji Haino, Aki Onda. Available from Blank Forms for the first time since its original 1980 release on ALM Uranoia, New Sense of Hearing documents a collaboration between Takehisa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki, two luminaries of Japanese experimental music in the lineage of Fluxus. Blank Formss high quality reissue of the sought after, long out of print LP, is produced by musician artist Aki Onda and mastered from the original tapes

Featuring current single ‰Û÷Bad Habits‰۪

this is Adrian Sherwood’s ‘sound system’ take on the original sessions

which is the album’s centre-piece

but it also references the unflinching anarchism of German rock's ultimate outsiders

Gathered around a Tascam 4- track cassette recorder and a case of Miller High- Life

Planet Terra (Sao Paolo

Written on a netbook with various borrowed headphones and recorded and mixed in the cold European winter at Sunwheel II in Berlin and Hudson Mohawke‰۪s studio in London

the band's Western aestheticization is ironic given the direct critical treatment Tori's lyrics give to that sort of process (see "Epignosis" with its "the '60s carries weight with you // you like it better than your wife

helping distill the universal into something far more personal

Scott 3 contains a series of lush

The song ‘Group Of Death’

just the described experience of living through unimaginable domestic obliteration