translated by Kato David Hopkins   Published by Public Bath Press, paperback, 368 pp, 2019   "This book, the only history of free jazz in Japan, has been reprinted many times in Japan and is finally available to readers overseas in English translation. From its earliest stirrings in the 1960s until it reached international recognition in the 1970s and after, free jazz in Japan is a unique music that has found its perfect scribe. Teruto Soejima was a writer who fell in love with a music and devoted his life to it as promoter, critic, label owner, tour organiser, and much more. "If you like jazz at all, if you like the unique voices of Japan at all, this book will open your ears to many sounds you haven't heard, or heard of, before. "Introduction by Otomo Yoshihide. All new photos in this edition, none used from the original Japanese volume." - Publisher Public Bath "Soejima Teruta was a legend on the scene of jazz and improvised music in Japan ... Much more than a critical observer, Soejima-san was a tireless supporter of music and musicians, and will always be remembered for his brilliant mind and gentle soul."- John Zorn

This is the real Japanese Noise bible. published: 2020Through extensive interviews, and his own knowledge as a first-hand observer, KD Hopkins provides a roadmap for heretofore totally uncharted territory in the history of extreme sonic exploration. Featuring the likes of Merzbow, Hijokaidan and Hanatarash alongside a bevy of lesser known freaks, Rumors Of Noizu compiles anecdotes and memories alongside flyers and photographs from the time, in an attempt to contextualize what is perhaps the most bewildering music scene in the history of the modern underground. Many critics have discussed the genre of noizu as a strange subculture arising in a strange place, Japan. In this book, Noizu is discussed as a natural organic expression arising in a country full of experimental culture. Tracing the earliest stirrings of noizu in various places, this micro-history, based on extensive interviews with participants and witnesses, will provide context to make sense of something that intentionally has no meaning.

A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success. She waits for their letters and imagines their contents. In a dream-like, torrid sequence, suffering, fear, fatigue and imperfection are apostrophised. Forgetting is examined and toyed with from every angle. Mythical hybrid creatures are invoked: a snake-headed lion, wolf-snakes, a wolf-peacock. How did this come to be? In a cunningly, wittily wrought rush, the unique, unpredictable voice of the narrator speaks from multiple perspectives to express powerful anguish and, ultimately, catharsis.Softcover, 255pp Silver Press, March 2026

Recorded Jan 2024 at SHUNK II, Edinburgh. Overdubs at TERT PALACE Edinburgh + MARSHALL TOWER, Falkirk.Cowboy Builder is Kieron, Mani, Jordan, JoshCowboy Builder is Drums, Metal, Prepared Guitar, Organ, Melodica, Megaphone, Sampler, DelayAll music written by Cowboy Builder 2020-25Dan Mutch from The Leg plays Wooden Flute on TOURIST, recorded in his living room.Recorded + mixed by Plastic Cowboy Builder. Mastered by James Dunn. Artwork by Cowboy Builder. Design by Jeroen Wille.Thanks to: Mike + Ruaridh, Musty Shed, Kangoo, P.A.J.McGhee, S.Frickleton, Caledonian Produce, Settlement ProjectsSince the emergence of their falling-down-around-you sound documented on The Name of the Demon is… (2021), Cowboy Builder have gotten slower and steadier. Organs EP (2023) saw the addition of, well, organs, and strange harmonies started to blend with their double drums. On COLD, Cowboy Builder are even more unhurried - disconsolate, see-sawing melodica and flattened bongos giving a stoic, funereal repetitiousness somewhere between Kurt Weill and Augustus Pablo. Their signature wok clang and clatter is treated with delay, the guitar’s strings crossed and warped; another bell to ring us back to earth. It’s bleak, industrial music for a time where ‘industry’ is working nightshifts for Amazon and drinking Lidl box wine. And yet, side-stepping the trappings of hauntology in favour of science fiction, the endurance of it all and its relentless pursuit gives welcome relief midst a nation of thumbs.

UK cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy's project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, M.B., Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.As Loud As Possible magazine first published the text by Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound label boss) in 2010, but it is expanded here with additional interviews; updates; a reprint of two issues of Broken Flag's fanzine, "Even When It Makes No Sense"; and reproductions of many of the label's cassette covers. A fascinating read and an indispensable piece of industrial music history.Softcover, 17x24cm, 144pp. Korm Plastics, 2025

The Adventures of Red Rat and BIGGO — The Present is a remake of Bram konijn en Piet de muis [Bram the Rabbit and Piet the Mouse], a 1982 children’s book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the Dutch punk underground who played with Rondos and The Ex, and who was the force behind Red Rat and Raket editions. The Present is a 2010 remake telling the story of a bully pig who terrifies a poor rat on a daily basis. After a while, the rat falls ill with fear and has to stay in bed. The lonely, evil pig has no one to play with and becomes depressed. The pig gives the rat a present — a bunch of beautiful flowers — and all is well. Now the two can play together. The 2010 remake, featuring different characters and intended for a North Korean audience, was never published. The 2025 English version opens with an introduction by Van de Weert, telling a bizarre story of a failed political career and an absurd vaudeville class struggle behind the seemingly harmless educational children’s book. Designed by Ott Kagovere, the book is printed in edition of 600.Staplebound, 17 x 22 cm (softcover, silkscreen and rispoprint), 32pp Rab-Rab, April 2026,   rab