SATOSHI ASHIKAWA - Still Way (Wave Notation 2) LP mod Songs like “Sex” and “Whip

Songs like “Sex” and “Whip My Valet” (the band’s most singularly aggressive and punk moment ever) manage to be intensely personal ruminations

" - Chris Cobcroft

From his 1986 debut (Rave On) to Imaginary Lovers

Heavy-duty punk rock & roll with hooks and a meaty bass at its core

bubbling with big bass lines and filled with studio touches like horn sections and keyboard accents

SATOSHI ASHIKAWA - Still Way (Wave Notation 2) LP mod Songs like “Sex” and “WhipLiner notes by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa, and Gareth Quinn Redmond. Highly recommended. Initially released in 1982 as part of the Wave Notation series (which includes Hiroshi Yoshimura's Music For Nine Postcards), Still Way is, without a doubt, a seminal Japanese environmental ambient minimalism album, often mentioned alongside Midori Takada's Through The Looking Glass (1983) and Hiroshi Yoshimura's Green (1986) as one of the genre's most