Oxz - Along Ago: 1981-1989The mid '80s were an exciting time for music in Kansai (Osaka Kyoto), Japan. There were more stages for bands to play on, more releases by independent labels and a variety of bands playing in different styles. The 80s were also a time when women's rights in Japan, though a topic of conversation, were not widely visible in the real world. There were very few women in the underground music scene at the time, but none of them dressed like punks or dyed

united too by the fact that they are rarely to be heard on the concert platform

"Bottle Up And Go"

followed by the recently released All Roads Lead Home by band members Molina

plus rare cover versions of famous Elvis tunes - including some from the UK - and quite a few on CD for the first time

in the languages of the Iñupiat and Gwich'in peoples of Alaska

It's testament to how fertile England's mid-80's musical landscape was that the splintering of short-lived post-punk pioneers Southern Death Cult seeded so many memorable but divergent groups - from widescreen rock legends The Cult to romantic pop duo Into A Circle to "the Asian Public Enemy

Here Morning Heroes is paired with the original 1926 version of Bliss's orchestral Hymn to Apollo

bassoon and strings

thick smoke and loud

Making his debut on Chandos

after a gap of twenty turbulent years that had witnessed the emigration of Weinberg from Poland to Russia

The complete recording on the CARUS label