While Rother is listed as producer on the original Brain release

flickering sequencers and oscillations of luminous channels

The crown jewel is the album closer "Swordsman"

their spiral idols and funeral decorations a meticulous method for transmuting to something else

Opening track “Ex Machina” with its ebbs and flows

V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LP Stoner While Rother is listed asEmerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the rykka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s rykka recordings follows on from the Kouta Katsutaro tape we put out a couple of years back, and further captures the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread