Vertigo KO, by Phew

Vertigo KO

by Phew

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Vinyl LP in reverse board sleeve with 20 page 210x210mm wire-stitched fanzine on 115gsm uncoated paper.

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6 panel double disc digipak with 20 page photo + album essay booklet - contains Vertigo KO on first disc and Vertical Jamming on second disc

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1.	The Very Ears Of Morning 06:07	buy track
2.	The Void 05:09	buy track
3.	Let's Dance Let's Go 07:27	buy track
4.	The Very Ears Of Dusk 06:02	buy track
5.	All That Vertigo 05:00	buy track
6.	Midnight Awakening 06:37	buy track
7.	Hearts And Flowers 01:05	buy track

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A compilation of unreleased material from the Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore sessions alongside specially recorded new material, including a cover of “The Void” by The Raincoats. Both formats include a 20 page zine designed by Studio Tape Echo featuring photography from Masayuki Shioda and writing from both Disciples and Phew. It follows on from a limited edition cassette and digital release of Phew’s music on Disicples called Vertical Jamming, which compiled some of the cult Japanese artist’s longform drone works.

“This album is an unconscious sound sketch. It was recorded in Japan from 2017 to 2019, a closed and obstructive time. It is not a presentation of a worldview, but a personal documentary music of the late 2010s. The hidden message of this album is: What a terrible world we live in, but let's survive.” - Phew

Phew is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Starting out in 1978 fronting one of Osaka's earliest punk groups, Aunt Sally, and going on to collaborate with a whole host of notable names as a solo artist in the 80s, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Conny Plank, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, Alex Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. In recent years she's made music on record or live with Ana da Silva of The Raincoats, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Ikue Mori, and Yoshimi of OOIOO / Boredoms / Saicobab. For Disciples however, the most interesting aspect of Phew's work is the fact she has made her strongest musical work in the last few years, working entirely on her own. There's a lot of interest from crate-digger type labels in her early 80s new wave oriented work, and the names she's worked with are impressive, but there's no doubt in our minds that her two most recent records, Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore, are modern classics. It’s this period of her work that we were keen to explore with these releases, a contemporary archive of incredible and unique music.

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released September 4, 2020

Phew: recording, synthesizers, voices

Hiroyuki Nagashima: mixing, bass on The Void, synthesizer on All That Vertigo, Midnight Awakening

Commissioned and sequenced by Disciples

All songs written by Phew, published by Daisho, except The Void written by Ana da Silva, Vicky Aspinall, Gina Birch and Paloma Blanco, published by Kassner Associated Publishers Limited

Mastering: Stefan Betke
Photos: Masayuki Shioda
Sleevenotes: Selpic Sid, Phew
Design: Studio Tape-Echo
Video: Lisa Aoki

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Phew Tokyo, Japan

Phew's career began in the 70s fronting trailblazing Osaka punk group Aunt Sally (who released one album on Vanity Records in 1979). Ryuichi Sakamoto produced Phew's first solo release in 1980 and in 1981 Pass Records issued her debut LP, a classic featuring H. Czukay and J. Liebezeit of Can, and Conny Plank. She’s since collaborated with members of DAF, Neubauten, The Raincoats and more. ... more

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