This is a reissue of the 2003 debut album by Suishou No Fune, a psychedelic rock band based out of Kuroneko Sabo in Asagaya, Tokyo.
Originally released as a self-produced CD-R, this album has been released on CD by a Beijing-based label. The artwork respects the original.
The album features six tracks culled from five live shows held at Muryoku Muzenji and Penguin House in Koenji, Tokyo, between July 2002 and June 2003.
Isogai Toshihiko (drums) plays on four tracks, with the exception of two featuring still-core members Kurenai Pirako (vocals, guitar) and Kageo (guitar, vocals). Takada Kiyohiro (bass), also known as Doronco, plays on two tracks, and Takahashi Yokai (bass), who was a member of Yoshino Daisaku & Prostitute around the time of "Dancing Until Death," plays on one track. Both bassists are also former members of "Les Rallizes Dénudés."
This recording could be considered a record of early Suishou No Fune, but it's nonetheless a very interesting work.
The stiffness and pretense felt by Pirako Kurenai, along with the rest of the band, is more vivid than in more recent Suishou no Fune, and in places it even evokes a sense of resentment.
The owner of Modern Music/PSF Records, with whom she began a relationship through this album, commented on her vocals, "She gets better with age," and it's no wonder her fresh singing from this period is exceptional.
The first track, "Forest Dance," is just under 16 minutes long and could be described as gothic-psychedelic.
The second track, "Where to?", recalls the tranquil songs on "Fushitsusha."
The third track, "Yami no Jokei," at nearly 13 and a half minutes, also evokes "Fushitsusha," but also exudes an eerie aura.
Pirako's vocals, if I may say so myself, have a death/doom/black metal vibe, and a rare kind of raspy voice rarely heard in Suishou No Fune's recent work.
The guitar sounds a bit like Keith Levene from his PiL days, and is both psychedelic and psychic.
The fourth track, just over 10 minutes long, is "Cherry," an early staple that has been performed occasionally at live shows over the past few years.
It's a quiet song.
The fifth track, contrary to its title, "Go Go Go," is laid-back.
In the sixth track, "Kuroi Maboroshi," Kageo's vocals quietly rumble.
His calm expression is amplified by his menace, and his strong vocal style, with a sense of rhythm and vocal talent that seems influenced by his friend Kaneko Jutoku of "Kousokuya," vibrates his throat.
Although refined, the roaring sounds of Suishou No Fune's recent live shows are largely absent. It's certainly "genuine" psychedelic rock, but it also sounds like doom rock.
In any case, you'll simply melt away with the Japanese wabi-sabi songs and sounds that sublimate curses into prayers.
A limited edition 8cm (approximately 3 inches) CD-R with a plastic case and jacket is included.
Recorded in the studio in July 2011, the lineup includes Kurenai Pirako (vocals, guitar), Kageo (guitar), Takada Kiyohiro (bass), and Mark Anderson (drums).
The album includes the eight-minute-plus instrumental track "Under the Sunset Sky," led by a powerful bass, and exudes a graceful, psychedelic feel that's directly connected to Suishou No Fune's current sound.



★Suishou No Fune "1st (Live)" (UFO CREAtions - UFOcds - 015)
Includes an insert with Kurenai Pirako 's liner notes printed in English.

Namekawa Kazuhiko (2026)
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More mind-blowing brand new “psychedelic ambient/painful noise and improvisational” moves from Tokyo’s psychedelic underground. Formed in 1999 Suishou No Fune’s name translates as The Crystal Ship and they’re assembled around the core duo of female guitarist and vocalist Pirako Kurenai and male guitarist and vocalist Kageo, accompanied by drummer Toshihiko Isogai and bassist Doronco with occasional contributions by alternate bassist Yokai Takahashi. Doronco and Yokai Takahashi are both ex-members of Les Rallizes Denudes. In Tokyo they’ve played live shows with Keiji Haino, Tori Kudo, Kan Mikami, Jutok Kaneko and Chie Mukai. In their own words: “At the beginning of the kick-off, they create a unique ‘psychedelic’ music sound. Songs with the theme of ‘darkness’, ‘light’, ‘raw’, ‘death’, ‘love’, ‘hatred’, will certainly touch your heartstrings. You can enjoy the sound of Japanese verse and its psychedelic introspections, if you don't understand Japanese. The CD has not been released yet from labels in Japan. Probably because the world of the songs of Suishou No Fune is so unique that it may not easy to be caught on with the recent music industry. Don't be disappointed! They produced a CD-R by themselves.” This is the self-released CD-R and it comes in a classic Haino-style black-on-black sleeve and disc. The music runs the gamut of massively distended nod-out treks ala the first Fushitsusha album through weird duo tracks that orbit a parallel universe where late-period John Fahey was the prime influence on Charalambides, infernal Dead C/Gate style guitar abuse and achingly beautiful comedown ballads. The twin vocalists are massively different in their approach, with Kurenai singing in a high wayward style that’s all throat and no lungs while Kageo works from the other end of the pipes with a ripped post-Yod/Morrison/Haino gutbucket approach. Simply one of the greatest out-of-nowhere slabs to come out of the Tokyo underground in days. This has been a staple on the Volcanic Tongue stereo of late, can’t recommend it enough.

(Volcanic Tongue U.K)