RIP Jutok Kaneko
 

This was posted by Alan Cummings on some mailing list or other.

Jutok Kaneko of Kousokuya suddenly passed away yesterday, January 24th, around 11am. He was just 48 years old.

Fuck man...so many good people dying recently. And so young too. I imagine this thread will sink like a stone just like the Uwe Nettlebeck one did.

I heard about this this morning via the list you speak of.
What a shame; such a young age!
He recorded an LP with my friend Rinji; I will give it a spin today in his honor. Kousokuya is a great band.

I'm always disappointed when people die before I have a chance to hear their music. Should I be concerned? Someone up me something good so I can be pissed off that I never saw him live.

I can't digitize vinyl, sorry.
Kousokuya included, for a time, Sachiko, who now plays in Overhang Party.
He also played back in the day with the likes of Narita and Haino. Kousokuya started in 1979 and endured many lineup changes, but endured as an entity for far longer than many of their contemporaries.

Sachiko as in Sachiko Matsubara (AKA M)? Or a different one?

Sachiko as in her:

whoa. real bad news... rest easy

I prefer this one:

Although as far as Japanese improv ladies go, and there seem to be a few, which is an utterly brilliant thing - catch up with Japan (again), rest of the world - I prefer Haco:

sachiko m's appeal is lost on me, maybe i just haven't heard the right things,

it's sad about jutok kaneko.

That's too bad.
I had been listening to his Endless Ruins album just before reading this. Big bummer.

cosmos is nice as ice. sachiko m and ami yoshida together.
i didnt know of kaneko, ill try and hear some if there are any recommendations of albums.

Kosokuya's 1st (PSF132) is one of the undisputed classics of the Japanese psych scene. If you're into Fushitsusha/High Rise/Les Rallizes de Nudes etc... you need this. After Fushitsusha Kosokuya were probably the darkest and heaviest group out of Japan. You can't really go wrong with them.

Kaneko also had a very nice (mostly) solo guitar and vocals album called Endless Ruins (also on PSF).

You can't go wrong with either.

cheers. ill have a mooch for something.