Debut volume of this unbeatable PSF series dedicated to documenting current activity on Tokyo’s psychedelic underground. This one features world-beating exclusive tracks from Marble Sheep & The Run-Down Sun’s Children, High Rise, Ghost, Fushitsusha, White Heaven, Verzerk, Kousokuya and Keiji Haino. Highly recommended.

Collaboration album between Helena Espvall of Espers et al and Masaki Batoh of Ghost. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan in December 2008, the bulk of Overloaded Ark feels like an instrumental Ghost album, with traditional folk melodies threaded by ethnic strings, wordless vocal tones and the occasional deep-space drone. It feels pretty varied in its approach, with soaring celtic hymns seguing into Popol Vuh-style devotionals and early music instrumentals that could almost be William Lawes. Guest appearances from various Ghost members.

Collaboration album between Helena Espvall of Espers et al and Masaki Batoh of Ghost. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan in December 2008, the bulk of Overloaded Ark feels like an instrumental Ghost album, with traditional folk melodies threaded by ethnic strings, wordless vocal tones and the occasional deep-space drone. It feels pretty varied in its approach, with soaring celtic hymns segueing into Popol Vuh-style devotionals and early music instrumentals that could almost be William Lawes. Guest appearances from various Ghost members.