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Photo – Tatsuya Yoshida

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Photo – Kei Koganemaru

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“I’m probably going out on a limb here, but from my vantage point, this is not only the most brilliant of all contemporary Japanese bands, but perhaps the greatest group currently operating in the world” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS

“The place where seemingly inexhaustible imagination and unfaltering technique intersect” – The VINYL DISTRICT

“Japan’s Tatsuya Yoshida has seen it all… (and) is easily seen as a godfather of today’s blossoming art-rock-noise-pop scene” – PITCHFORK

“…takes punk and prog-rock to the opera house for an immaculately arranged mosh pit…simultaneously challenging and fun” – NPR

“Repeated listens reveal a calculatingly precise logic behind each and every mad progression, giving the band’s colorful music a sense of arresting inevitability” – BANDCAMP DAILY

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Photo – AH

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KOENJIHYAKKEI’s third album revamped, revisited and on vinyl for the first time. Years after its original 2001 release, band leader Tatsuya Yoshida and the current Koenjihyakkei line-up (as heard on “Dhorimvishka”) returned to the ‘Nivraym’ master recordings and went to work – adding new flourishes, additional overdubs and re-recorded drum tracks.

“After years of working with Tatsuya’s (other band) Ruins, we released Koenjihyakkei’s fourth album “Angherr Shisspa” in 2005. Then we brought their first, second and third albums out internationally.” – comments Mark Fischer, the founder and CEO of SKiN GRAFT Records. “In 2018, Koenjhyakkei returned to great acclaim with album number five “Dhorimviskha”, which we followed up with a vinyl release of “Angherr Shisspa”.  Now we’re bringing back the third album under the title “Nivraym (Revisited)”. It’s received an extensive overhaul since its original Japanese release. When the 2023 version is compared to the 2001 original, it is a huge difference”.

For its first ever vinyl release, the album has been remixed, remastered and re-sequenced for this revolutionary revisitation – the band’s purest, most uncompromising expression of Zeuhl music to date; blending progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion and neoclassicism with the energy of hardcore punk, the volume of metal and the attitude of rock in opposition.

“Nivraym Revisited” is coming out February 17th via SKiN GRAFT Records.

o Koenjihyakkei’s latest LP Dhorimvishka was selected as one of the year’s BEST ALBUMS by Bandcamp Daily.
o The worldwide vinyl debut includes a randomly mixed 2x colored vinyl edition and 2x black vinyl edition.
o Gatefold Double LP includes full color collectible Japan-style “Footlong OBI”
o Glass mastered CD comes packaged in a Six Panel Tri-Fold Jacket
o All formats include (3) new BONUS TRACKS recorded at Japan’s Club Goodman
o Bandcamp Exclusive Ultimate Edition bundles together all three formats in choice of COLORED or BLACK vinyl 

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Tracklist:

01. Nivraym
02. Becttem Pollt  
03. Lussesoggi Zomn
04. Medderro Passquirr
05. Maschtervoz
06. Axall Hasck
07. Vissqaguell
08. Vallczeremdoss
09. Gasstrumm
10. Becttem Pollt: Live
11. Nivraym: Live
12. Axall Hasck: Live

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Photo – Keiko Komori

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AMNPLIFY – DB