Thank you No Data, very goog!

this is absolutely beautiful! haunting. thanks x

From the web: Tomo Akikawabaya is a mysterious minimal synth musician from Japan, who released sever al singles in the 1980s be fore disappearing.

He de buted with the single “Mars” in 1983, which was fol lowed by the 2×12” “The Castle” in 1984, “Anju” and “1985” in 1985, and “Kojiki To Onna” in 1986. These re leases were later col lec ted in a very li mited box set tit led “Rivage de la con vuls ion” (only 30 co p ies). Al­most all of his re cords (ex cept for “Kojiki to Onna”) fea ture the same model Rena Anju on cover. Her name in Japanese (安珠) as con fir ma­tion, she’s the same woman who played one of the main roles in YMO’s (bril liant) film PRO PAGAN DA. She’s an ex-fashion model and she’s ac tual ly quite a well known pro fes sion al photog raph er now. Akikawabaya de sig ned the dress that she’s wear ing on the cover of “The Castle”.

Not much is known about Tomo Akikawabaya as there are no pic tures of him, he never per for med live and never gave in ter views. The only in for ma tion avail able can be found on the sleeve notes of his re leases, all of them re cor ded at the same studio Bea Pot Studio, using the same en gine er Takaaki Han-ya, and re leased on his own label Castle Re cords.

Thank you [a] quite informative and helpful your research of this Japanese Artist.

My current strategy is to only download albums from this site that have minimal black and white covers. Mostly black. I’ve yet to be disappointed.

Unexpected reissue, obvee i bought it as soon as it came out … not a fan of Veronica and her label but it’s the same old story with MW, it’s either that or lose forever the chance to own some of the most beautiful music in this solar system.