Phew (singer)
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Phew is a Japanese singer working in the areas of rock and jazz avant-garde. Since 1980 she has worked with musicians such as Holger Czukay
, Jaki Liebezeit
, Jah Wobble
, Bill Laswell
, Anton Fier
, Buckethead
, Nicky Skopelitis
, Ryuichi Sakamoto
and Alexander Hacke
. She was founder of punk rock
group Aunt Sally
before. Phew's CD, Five Finger Discount, is ranked 32nd in The Wire (magazine)
top 50 records of 2010.
Holger Czukay
Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described by critic Jason Ankeny as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde," Czukay is also notable for creating early important examples of ambient music, for exploring...
, Jaki Liebezeit
Jaki Liebezeit
Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"....
, Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble
Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...
, Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
, Anton Fier
Anton Fier
Anton Fier, , is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge , worked with Pere Ubu, was briefly in the Voidoids and founded The Golden Palominos...
, Buckethead
Buckethead
Brian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
, Nicky Skopelitis
Nicky Skopelitis
Nicky Skopelitis is an American guitarist and composer from Greek heritage. He is best known as a guitarist, but also performs on banjo, oud, lute, keyboards and other instruments....
, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto
After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
and Alexander Hacke
Alexander Hacke
Alexander Hacke is a guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, experimental / industrial / electronic musician from Germany....
. She was founder of punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
group Aunt Sally
Aunt Sally (band)
Aunt Sally were an avant-punk-psychedelic-rock group from Japan, active in the late 1970s.Members besides creative heads Phew and Bikke were Kataoka , Takashi Maruyama and Mayu ....
before. Phew's CD, Five Finger Discount, is ranked 32nd in The Wire (magazine)
The Wire (magazine)
The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...
top 50 records of 2010.
Solo
- Phew. Five Finger Discount (BeReKeT, bmp-001) (Japan) (CD), 2010
- Phew. Phew. Pass/P-Vine, SSAP-006, 2005
- Phew. View. P-Vine, PCD-7221, 2002.
- Phew. Phew Video. Boid, v-boid3, 2001.
- Phew. Phew. Pass/Sky Station, WAX-101, 2001.
- The Unknown Cases, and Phew. Koyasan. Fünfundvierzig, MCD 45122, 2001.
- Phew. Finale c/w Urahara. Pass/Sky Sation, WAX-12.
- Phew. Phew. Pass/Sky Sation, WAX-6.
- Phew, and Seiichi Yamamoto. Shiawase no Sumika. Tokuma Japan Communications, TKCH-71454, 1998.
- Phew. Himitsu no Knife. Alida/Creativeman, CMDD-00010, 1995.
- Phew. Our Likeness. LP/CD. Mute, 1992.
- Phew. Songs. 3" CD. Parco Secretary, QTCA-1002, 1991.
- Phew. View. LP, CI-70; Audiocassette, U4BC-98; CD, 30CH-258, 1987.
- Phew. Phew. LP. Pass, 1981.
- Phew. Finale c/w Urahara. 7" vinyl. Pass, PAS-203, 1980.
With bands and projects
- Aunt Sally. Aunt Sally. Undo, UNDO-001, 2002.
- Aunt Sally. Live 1978-1979. P-Vine, PCD-5629, 2001.
- Aunt Sally. Aunt Sally. LP. Vanity, vanity 0003-A, 1979; Kojima, 1984.
- Agata, Morio. Norimono Zukan. Bridge, BRIDGE-078, 2007.
- Agata, Morio. Norimono Zukan. Vanity, 0005, 1980.
- Big Picture. Big Picture. Little More, LMCA-1002, 2001.
- Big Picture. Big Picture. CD-R.
- Blind Light. The Absence of Time. Alida, ALIDA-001, 1994.
- Fier, Anton. Dreamspeed/Blind Light 1992-1994. 2-CD set. Tzadik, TZ 7609, 2003.
- Fier, Anton. Dreamspeed. Avant, AVAN-009, 1993.
- Most. Most Most. P-Vine, PCD-25010, 2003.
- Most. Most. P-Vine, PCD-5647, 2001.
- Most. 2000.11.26. CD-R. 2001.
- Novo Tono. Live. CD-R. 2001.
- Novo Tono. Panorama Paradise. Alida/Creativeman, CMDD-00038, 1996.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Dreams. Tzadik, TZ 7238, 2002.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Otomo Yoshihide Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita. P-Vine, PCD-5804, 1999.
Compilations
- Pass No Past. 2-CD set. Pass/P-Vine, SSAP-004/5, 2005.
- Improvised Music from Japan. 10-CD set. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-10CD, 2001.
- Mottomo Otomo: Unlimited XIII. Trost, TR076, 2000.
- Megabank Presents Tribute to New Wave. Megabank, MB-2.507CD, 1995.
- Rebel Incorporated. 2-LP set, Wax, 17WXL-3001/3002; CD, Wax, 32WXD-101.