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#Upcoming Ongaku Otaku was a thick annual zine dedicated to everything happening in Japanese underground music scenes in the ‘90s. Now bundled together into a 524-page hardcover book! Did I mention I contributed a few articles? Available via Korm Plastics (EU) and Soleilmoon (US), June 5th.

#Upcoming For the first time, the entire original run of MAD comics and magazine by creator, editor, writer, and cover artist Harvey Kurtzman is collected in a lavish five-volume collector’s box set, in oversized facsimile, with extensive notes and historical essays! Available via #Fantagraphics, O…

MAD: The Complete Harvey Kurtzman Years

#Upcoming To honor the 40th anniversary of Windham Hill’s “A Winter’s Solstice”, Six Degrees Records are compiling a new album inspired by the spirit of those recordings. https://www.kickstarter.com/pro…

#Upcoming “Agate (瑪瑙)” by #Meitei combines extended and newly rearranged works from across the Kofū cycle, refining material developed through years of performance and sustained practice. Available via KITCHEN. LABEL, April 17th.

#Upcoming “Behind the Great Curve” by #LennertJacobs celebrates the curious poetry in the faint background hum of modern life. Available in a limited edition of 200 copies via Blickwinkel, April 10th.

#Upcoming “Sol.Hz” by #Seefeel is their first full-length album in fifteen years. A hazy and blissed out collection of fractured melodies and vaporous textures. Available via Warp Records, May 1st. …

#Upcoming Deeply influenced by Eastern music, “Grain of Light” by #Rapoon evokes ritual and dream, memory and mirage. Available on CD via Unexplained Sounds Group, March 12th. …