Phew - Our Likeness (Limited Edition Clear Vinyl) - VINYL LP

A compilation of unreleased material from the Light Sleep and Voice Hardcore sessions alongside specially recorded new material, including a cover of InchThe VoidInch 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 of Phew's music on Disicples called Vertical Jamming, which compiled some of the cult Japanese artist's longform drone works. InchThis 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.Inch - PhewSide A1 The Very Ears Of Morning2 The Void 3 Let's Dance Let's GoSide B1 The Very Ears Of Dusk2 All That Vertigo 3 Midnight Awakening4 Hearts And Flowers Album Tracks 1. The Very Ears of Morning 2. The Void 3. Let's Dance Let's Go 4. The Very Ears of Dusk 5. All That Vertigo 6. Midnight Awakening 7. Hearts and Flowers

The longform instrumental pieces of Vertical Jamming first appeared on a self-released tour only CD in 2016. Subsequently they were issued in a mail order cassette edition by Disciples. The pieces have now been specially edited by Phew for this first time limited edition clear vinyl pressing, cut by Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. 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 has 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. Recorded at Phew's place in December 2015. Music by Phew. Originally issued on CD by Bereket and sold only at InchA New World TourInch in 2016.Side A Cheers [vinyl edit] (18 48) Side B Encore [vinyl edit] (19 45) Album Tracks 1. Cheers [Vinyl Edit] 2. Encore [Vinyl Edit]

Limited clear colored vinyl LP pressing. Renowned avant-garde artist Phew returns to Mute for the album, New Decade. Working within the medium of voice and analog electronics, New Decade's six tracks define Phew as a master of her craft - fusing her ghostly vocals with intense droning textures and clamorous guitar feedback. New Decade is a stark and haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese or manifest as wordless shrieks and groans, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics. Phew explains that there's a loose concept running through the album, relating to the perception of time InchDuring the '80s, and up until the '90s, things progressed along a line from past to present to future, but I think that's changed, especially since the start of the 21st century. Personally speaking, I've stopped being able to see a future that extends from the present.Inch Album Tracks 1. Snow and Pollen 2. Days Nights 3. Into the Stream 4. Feedback Tuning 5. Flashforward 6. Doing Nothing