umez night II

artwork by Yoichi Tamori.

please buy advance tickets from here.

list of record shops

the list below is a list of the record shops in the uk where you can get the releases from So I Buried Records.

*  means a record shop where you can get 'Foreign Affair Confidential' by Bo Ningen with Damo Suzuki
+ means a record shop where you can get 'Dream of Liquid' by Mandog

Birmingham

- Polar Bear Records (*, +)

10 York Road

Kings Heath

Birmingham

B14 7RZ

- Swordfish Records (*, +)

14 Temple Street

Birmingham

B2 5BG

Brighton

- Edgeworld Records (now, pop-up shop once a month) (*)

Blind Tiger

52-54 Grand Parade

Brighton

BN2 9QA

- Resident (*)

28 Kensington Gardens
Brighton
BN1 4AL

Bristol

- Rise (*, +)

70 Queens Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1QU

Cheltenham

- Rise (*, +)
Unit 19
Beechwood Shopping Centre
Cheltenham
GL50 1DQ

Glasgow

- Monorail Music (*, +)

12 Kings Court

Glasgow

G1 5RB

Leeds

- Crash Records (*)
35 The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 6PU

- Jumbo Records (*)

5/6 St Johns Centre
Leeds
LS2 8LQ

- Norman Records (*, +)

(online record shop)

Liverpool

- Probe Records (*, +)

Retail Unit 1

The Bluecoat

School Lane

Liverpool

L1 3BX 

London

- Rough Trade East (*, +)

'Dray Walk'

Old Truman Brewery

91 Brick Lane

London

E1 6QL

- Rough Trade West (*, +)

130 Talbot Road

London

W11 1JA

- Sister Ray (*, +)
34-35 Berwick Street
London
W1F 8RP

Manchester

- Piccadilly records (*, +)
53 Oldham Street
Manchester
M1 1JR

Newcastle

- Beatdown Records (*, +)

Clarendon House Basement

Bewick Street

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 5EE

- RPM Music (*, +)

4 Old George Yard

Cloth Market

Newcastle Upon Tyne

NE1 1EZ

Stockton on Tees

- Sound It Out Records (*, +)

15a Yarm Street

Stockton on Tees

TS18 3DR

Swindon

- Rise (*, +)

Unit 12

Brunel Plaza

Brunel Centre

Swindon

SN1 1LD

Worcester

- Rise (*, +)
C15B Chapel Walk
Crowngate Shopping Centre
Worcester
WR1 3LD

review of umez night

my friend, Will, reviewed the so i buried show held on 26th June. it's nice, please read the one below. thank you, Will.

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Music Review

by Will Huckerby (Soundofkwerk)

On the night of Tuesday, 26th June, Powerlunches on Kingland Road, Dalston, hosted 3 bands from the avant-garde Japanese music label, So I Buried. Although there is clearly potential for a review of all three bands, I must admit that pavement side conversation, peppered with excited anticipation of what we would experience on descending into the black sound box basement of Powerlunches, managed to keep me on the ground floor and outside of the venue for quite a while.

As the anticipation, and the amount of time we'd spent outside the venue peaked, we had a sudden thought: are we missing the music? The answer, yes! This was the catalyst for descending into the subterranean vault of noise. On entering, a warm wave of fuzz expanded to fill the room, akin to the peach coloured clouds we've been experiencing of late; dense, yet warm and colourful. We had entered the world of UMEZ.

Consisting of two members, Koichi and Sachiko, there is an interesting balance in the band: noise and pop; male and female; plucked, looped, spasmodic thrashing guitar and steady throbbing warm bass. UMEZ concoct a fresh, interesting and emotional sound, stemming from clear yet contrasting elements of Japanese music culture, and the notion of hearing a band that skilfully and tastefully dances to both tunes, so to speak, had me excited and curious for days beforehand.

And I really felt them when they were playing. UMEZ have unpicked these two well established genres and rewoven them into a heart warming ball of coloured noise that ascends, floats, soars and then sweeps down and around into a searing cloud of friendly distorted fuzz.

Two of their tracks in particular, reached out to touch me. Sadly the names escape me, although the feeling is still palpable. The first I'd like to mention is the one that grabbed me the most. I closed my eyes and felt as if my heart was expanding to fill my chest. They combine a sweet picked guitar melody that is looped and layered, with a warm and charmingly simple bass, moving at a reflective pace, then they unite towards the crescendo. I must be wary of exaggeration, I realise, but I felt as if I was flying for a moment.

The second track that stood out and asked to be noticed is a cover of a J-Pop song. A playful amalgam of saccharine pop melodies, but with the sugar being tempered by the vigorous waves of noise from the guitar and a Korg MS2000. Sweet without being sickening, romantic without being sentimental, it touches the heart without suffocating the mind.

All in all, I'd strongly recommend that you see them. Keep an eye on activities at So I Buried records for future events.

dommune

Mandog, who released an album, 'Dream of Liquid', from So I Buried Records last year, will be performing live on a japanese online programme called Dommune from 9.00pm on tue 19th in japan time and 1.00pm on the same day in uk time.

watch it. it's free.

umez night

artwork by Yoichi Tamori.

get advance tickets from here.

norman records II

also, they reviewed Bo Ningen with Damo Suzuki's 'Foreign Affair Confidential'. thank you very much.

this

another five stars. wow, wow.

norman records

got another amazing review of Mandog's 'Dream of Liquid'. thank you, Norman Records.

check this out.

five stars. wow.