MUKAI,CHIE + JUSTIN SIMON - Hi Tsuki

Mesh-Key is pleased to announce the release of a lavish, limitededition run of this heretofore unheard collaboration, finally seeingthe light of day 15 years after its recording. Acoustic instrumentationand synthesizers meet Mukais haunting voice for four sparse,minimalistic compositions unlike anything in either artists previousoutput.Each record comes folded inside thick Italian pastel paper, and eachcopy has been individually decorated with a design in sumi ink bySimon. The titles and inserts were silkscreened by Keegan Cooke at TheCircadian Press.Chie Mukai is a composer and musician from Osaka, Japan, best known forher underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU (PSF), which she founded in1981. In addition to her song-based work, Mukai has been an activeimproviser since 1975, when she joined the East Bionic Symphonia groupunder the leadership of Fluxus violinist-composer Takehisa Kosugi atthe Biggako Art School of Tokyo. She has since collaborated with KeijiHaino, John Duncan, Agata M