Villagerrr - Tear Your Heart Out - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps Inchever more inward, Inch as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record's original introductory text-embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an Inchattitude of total self-containment.InchTomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month-from August 24 to September 25, 1977-at Tokyo's famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa's Inchscreaming philosopherInch vocals find their match with the orchestra's electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police's Toshi Ishizuka-who appears on Tomokawa's first three records and remains his collaborator to this day.InchThis is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh, Inch concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa's uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. InchYou call that life?Inch he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, Inchtry saying you're alive!Inch

As villagerrr, Mark Allen Scott's patient songs are mesmerizing and unmistakably Midwestern. On his latest record, 'Tear Your Hear Out,' the prolific Ohio artist pinpoints quiet, mundane experiences and imbues them with disarming emotional clarity. It's a record for long drives dappled with sunlight and small-town get-togethers. Chalk-full of home-recorded songs of tasteful indie rock with understated twang, the record solidifies Scott as an essential voice alongside the rising tide of his peers and collaborators. Originally released in 2024 by Darling Recordings, 'Tear Your Heart Out' was warmly received and thrived on the undercurrent, rippling out into a handful of sold out tape runs, tours with Real Estate, Horse Jumper of Love and Momma, and most recently, a record deal with Winspear, the LA-based tag that has issued breakout records from Slow Pulp, Barrie and Wishy. The tag will be issuing the LP on vinyl for the first time, and will also be releasing a Digital Deluxe Edition of the LP featuring five previously unreleased recordings. Now based in Columbus, Scott was raised in Chillicothe, Ohio alongside the Scioto River. It's a rural town that he says felt small and stifling growing up but, for all it's faults, now feels like home. InchI want to wear where I'm from and my family on my sleeve,Inch says Scott. InchI'm proud of the twangy influence in my music from corny country songs I'd hear on the bus rides to school. I feel like I'm reclaiming where I come from and making it my own.Inch villagerrr took form in early 2022 as a way for Scott to make music on his own terms by writing, recording, performing, and releasing everything himself. It was the start of an exceptionally prolific period for Scott. He released three albums, 'Brain Pain', 'Ohioan', and 'Like Leaves' as well as an EP, 'Something or Somewhere Else'. Initially, these releases were shared as quiet

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