katsumashi
makes me feel like I'm going to die very soon. but almost peacefully. not entirely peacefully, but with less fear than most. amazing
Favorite track: Plan for Solitude.
Presented in a deluxe tip-on Tri-Fold jacket with ink pigment foil stamping, gloss film laminate finish and printed inner sleeves and mounted booklet. It includes her extensive, heart wrenching final interview, translated for the first time to English alongside high-resolution archival images.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavenly Persona
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DIRECT ONLY Deluxe Double LP Tri-Fold + Shizuka "4" Cassette
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Presented in a deluxe tip-on Tri-Fold jacket with ink pigment foil stamping, gloss film laminate finish and printed inner sleeves and mounted booklet. It includes her extensive, heart wrenching final interview, translated for the first time to English alongside high-resolution archival images.
Includes a direct only cassette reproduction of Shizuka "4" - an apocryphal set of Shizuka's unaccompanied solo bedroom recordings, previously only available in an impossibly limited handmade edition. Strictly limited, one time only cassette editions only available as part of this bundle.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heavenly Persona
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Few artists have left behind a legacy as enigmatic and captivating as Shizuka Miura. Amidst the Tokyo underground, she was a spectral figure, creating ghostly, childlike dolls and writing haunting, other-worldly songs. She formed Shizuka in 1992 with Maki Miura, known for his staggering guitar work in legendary groups Fushitsusha and Les Rallizes Dénudés. Their music bloomed with a fragile, yet explosive mystical power; an atmospheric alchemy of psychedelic rock, folk and noise with Shizuka’s ethereal vocals invoking loneliness, yearning and dark providence. Since her passing in 2010, the group has steadily gathered a cult following.
Black Editions presents their sole studio album, 1994’s Heavenly Persona, a monumental, transcendent work originally issued by P.S.F. Japan on CD in 1994; Now newly remastered and in its first ever vinyl edition on double LP with a laser etched fourth side. Presented in a deluxe tip-on tri-fold jacket with ink pigment foil stamping, gloss film laminate finish and printed inner sleeves and mounted booklet. It includes her extensive, heart wrenching final interview, translated for the first time to English alongside high-resolution archival images.
credits
released April 7, 2023
Credits:
SHIZUKA (vocal, guitar, bells)
MIURA MAKI (guitar, music helper)
KOSUGI JUN (drums)
Goody Support Musicians
HAYAKAWA TAKEHARU (bass, cello)
NAGAHARA ICHIROU (piano)
All songs by Shizuka except 1, 4 & 5, Shizuka with Maki Miura
Arrangements SHIZUKA & G.S.M
Melty Photos TANAKA TETSUYA
Black & White Photos TAKEHIKO NAKAFUJI
Doll Photos
SHIZUKA
Recordings Engineer
AMANO ONKYO GIKEN
Very Special Thanks to
HAYAKAWA TAKEHARU,
IKEEZUMI HIDEO,
THE GODDESSES OF THE CLOSED MEDICAL WARDS
Album concept SHIZUKA
Directed by MIURA MAKI
Originally released on CD in 1994 by P.S.F. Japan
Additional Graphic Design by HENRY OWINGS
Translations by JUSTIN SIMON & TAKETO SHIMADA
Remastered by KRIS LAPKE
Black Edition Produced by PETER KOLOVOS
supported by 117 fans who also own “Heavenly Persona”
My introduction to Les Rallizes was via Haino. Heard about a rivalry between Mizutani and Haino (that may or may not be true), and was curious of Mizutani’s work. Boy was it a good choice. Live forever in peace, Takashi Mizutani! blcksrpnt
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