PHEW - Our Likeness LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition clear vinyl.

Nicely priced. One copy only.

On her 1992 album, the iconoclastic vocalist and her band of German experimentalists pushed each other to virtuosic extremes, spanning styles and genres.

In 1981, a young man sat quietly in Conny Plank’s legendary Cologne recording studio, watching Japanese singer Phew record her debut album. She had been whisked from Osaka to Germany at only 20 years old on the strength of her first single with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Her backing band included krautrock legends Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit of Can, some of the only musicians in the world who the young iconoclast adored. The band decided to improvise, and Phew wrote lyrics on the spot. Miraculously, her voice, though sometimes small and uncertain, gradually found its place amid Czukay and Liebezeit’s bang and clatter.