Out now!
光分解 / Hikari Bunkai 「8555」
The debut album by Tokyo's coolest, youngest, hottest, nicest, fucked-uppest multi-instrumentalist jazz-prog-punk trio.
Listen in full and buy (in full!) here:
call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555
Our friends at Blossom Rot Records in Australia are tantalisingly close to their $1K fundraising goal for the Desert Divas programme supporting female First Nations musicians. CAR acts P-iPLE, Grandma's Garden and Cyber Cherry all feature on this album:
blossomrotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blosso...
Today is the day the 光分解 album was supposed to be released, but this is your reminder that we've had to push it back a couple of weeks. Very sorry and please bear with us.
Bad news!
Due to a massive production snafu, the new Hikari Bunkai album release, which was scheduled for this Friday March 27th, has been put back 2 weeks to April 10th.
Huge apologies, especially to those of you who have pre-ordered the CD. The problem will be fixed soon.
Check out the Miu Mau EP for a slightly different window into some similar psychic raw materials: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
The Leaf Library, who recently remixed Miu Mau's "Furidashi" for us, just released their new album "After The Rain, Strange Seeds" and it's a masterpiece. It tightens and hones to perfection their expansive yet intimate, drizzle-swept yet sometimes sun-dappled, melancholy yet joyous musical vision:
The band have also made a music video for the song: youtu.be/Zns52ifb1M0?...
One more new preview track "min haya" is now available to whet your appetite for 光分解 (Hikari Bunkai)'s album 8555, out next Friday. Skronk freely here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555
We've updated the pre-order page for Hikaribunkai's blistering avant-punk-prog mindmelt debut album "8555".
You can now listen to the track "市のベージュ " in addition to "ランチ" which was made available last week.
You can check both tracks out here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555
We also did a remix for the new Miu Mau EP on @callandresponse.bsky.social (bringing the Flying Saucer Attack lo-fi drones to the original's sweet avant-pop):
call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
Bandcamp Friday is also a great opportunity to lay down an early preorder for our next release, 光分解 (Hikari Bunkai)'s forthcoming album of prog-skronk-jazz-punk mayhem "8555": call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555
Happy Bandcamp Friday!
If you've been holding off on buying Miu Mau's excellent new Motif 21 EP, now's your chance to make the biggest impact with your love!
call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
P-iPLE, Cyber Cherry and Grandma's Garden all participated in this online compilation from Australian indie label Blossom Rot Records.
It's released for International Women's Day 2026 to raise funds for a project supporting indigenous women in music.
blossomrotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blosso...
Fashion crisis presents An Alternative History of Popular Music Part 1: The 1960s. Date: 3/6 (Fri) Place: Koenji SUBstore Time: 19:00 Price: ¥500 + 1 drink DJs: - Evil Penguin - Mittu - BB Clarke - James Hadfield - Ian Martin
This year, our Fashion Crisis DJ nights are travelling through time, decade by decade, to figure out our alternative history of popular music. We're starting in the 60s (because none of us is confident we could do justice to the 50s) on March 6th.
Our next release!
"Tokyo Avant-garde Propeller Postcard Band" 光分解/Hikari Bunkai's wild ride of a debut album "8555" is open for pre-rders now, with the song "ランチ" currently available for early listening: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/8555
I've been a fan of Miu Mau for years and it's a profound pleasure to be able to finally put something by them out from my little label. That I've been able to get The Leaf Library to remix them as well is just a wonderful feeling.
This is a fantastic EP - very pleased to be able to contribute a couple of remixes to it. Hope you enjoy it.
It's past midnight here in Tokyo, which means Miu Mau's new EP Motif 21 is now officially out!
Two fantastic original indie/new wave/art-pop tracks plus two lovely remixes by Matt from @theleaflibrary.bsky.social
Listen to it, love it, buy it here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
Very happy to hear, via @koenjimusic.bandcamp.com, that Grandma's Garden were played the other day on X-Posure Daily with John Kennedy.
Check out the whole EP here: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...
Get in early with our upcoming cassette EP from alternately spiky/woozy art-pop/new wave trio Miu Mau: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
Another Bandcamp Friday treat for adventurous music fans is this wild journey of a covers album featuring 15 artists either on or connected to our little label. It's pop? call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/pop
This Bandcamp Friday, why not treat yourself to some spiky, riff-heavy garage-punk from Tokyo: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...
New Looprider coming in a couple of months. Get your ears ready!
We'll be putting out their debut album very soon! It's currently being mastered and we're aiming for late next month.
I've two remixes on this new Miu Mau EP, one as @theleaflibrary.bsky.social and one as Roland Prague (long story). Enjoy!
New TLL remix on here!
Oh, I'd never thought about the comparison so directly but I can see it! I think it says a lot about Trish's cadence and Masami's tone that the parallels come across like that even in a structurally quite different language.
It's also a delight and honour to have, in addition to two new Miu Mau tracks, two wildly different remixes of the song Furidashi by @matthewjashton.bsky.social of @theleaflibrary.bsky.social (who CAR-spotters may recognise from the fabulous Afternoons At The Library album with Sea Level).
NEW RELEASE OUT 2/27!
Miu Mau have been friends of the label forever and guitarist Hiromi's old band 百蚊/Hyacca were one of the foundational pillars of early CAR. So it's a profound pleasure to welcome them in all their evolving art-pop glory to our label call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/motif-21
Matt from The Leaf Library has done fantastic stuff with us recently — with Sea Level, our recent covers comp, and on the forthcoming Miu Mau cassette — but their upcoming album is fucking fantastic and will still be up there with your year’s favourites come December. Treat yourself to a good time.