New solo album from the leader of the re-born Miminokoto with a more zoned folk/space vibe than the garage punk style of his group. Buried Sky... features ex-Fushitsusha/Kousokuya drummer Ikuro Takahashi on several tracks, cutting through voids of drone and F/X with martial explosions and starlight percussion in a way that touches on the horizontal take-off style of prime Tsurubami with added black monk throat-gargling and Mazzacane style moan giving it a devotional sky-kissing appeal that is pure bliss. Also features Richard Horneri on synths for one track. On Junzo’s own label. Recommended. 

Tour-only solo album from this excellent Tokyo-based Japanese underground guitarist/vocalist. Junzo's name might ring some bells via his various collaborative projects with Hiroshi Hasegawa of CCCC as part of Astro and Astral Travelling Unit, Mitsuru Tabata of Zeni Geva as part of 20 Guilders and Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple as well as his membership of key psych units Overhang Party and Miminokoto. This disc features his "country blues/folk oriented music with improvisation with ACID feeling" recorded live at Penguin House, Koenji, Tokyo November 10th 2001. Some of the convulsive six-string punctuation touches on the ferocious folk-poetry of Kan Mikami but there's also a ton of exquisitely dilated space which Junzo navigates with endless interlocked webs of chiming six-string guitar that's the equal of Christina Carter or Hisato Higuchi. His vocals touch on the more quizzical, breathy style of Keiji Haino and the tracks feel like they plot the vaguest contours of folk-blues logic before piloting deeper into increasingly unanchored explorations of single notes and sudden machine gun retorts isolated in dark, black space.