Yasuo Sugibayashi The Mask Of The Imperial Family

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Sugibayashi founded Mimic Records in the early 80s, Inspired heavily by the aesthetic music of the late 70s, in particular the innovations of Brian Eno and David Cunningham. He purchased a Roland System 100M and started experimenting with tape.

Exploring ancient ethnic music, he wanted to combine his influences with daily experiences of city life. The short lived Mimic records was home to three of his solo releases, a self titled LP and two 7 inches, shortly after this period he went on to pursue other musical projects, in 1985 he was a founding member of the band Qujila, which is still active today.

"Both profound and profoundly jaw dropping, the esoteric moves of this massively rare and insanely obscure 300 copy Japanese marvel have until now remained the sole preserve of a handful of heavyweight collectors. It's time to let the cat out of the bag on this one. The dankly cavernous and unsettling acid maneuvers of Dome circa their first three LP's (though absent vocals) are the nearest antecedent I can summon for the principal thrust of the sound here. So too, there's a ritualistic dimension to this stuff thats also a bit suggestive of something like Vasilisk or The Hybryds, though the arcane initiatory atmosphere here is far more penetrating than anything I've heard either of those two muster." - Mutant Sounds