Phew (singer)
Phew is a Japanese singer and analogue electronics improviser working in the areas of experimental and avant-garde music.Music career
1978–1980
She was a founder of punk group Aunt Sally in Osaka.1980–present
Aunt Sally broke up after releasing one LP. Since 1980 she has mostly worked solo with musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Chrislo Haas, Alexander Hacke, Yuji Takahashi, Seiichi Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Nagashima, Otomo Yoshihide in the group Novo Tono, Dieter Moebius on Phew's Project Undark Radium Girls project, Jim O'Rourke and Ana da Silva.
Her 'Five Finger Discount' was ranked 32nd in 2010 and 'Voice Hardcore' was 23rd in 2017 as voted by writers in the UK music magazine The Wire top 50 recordsDiscography
Solo
Most
- Most. P-Vine, PCD-25010, 2003
- Most. P-Vine, PCD-5647, 2001
- Most. 2000.11.26. CD-R. 2001
With bands and projects
- Island with Ana da Silva
- Island with Ana da Silva only
- Project Undark Radium Girls 2011 with Erika Kobayashi Bereket 2012
- Morio Agata. Norimono Zukan. Bridge BRIDGE-078, 2007
- Morio Agata. Norimono Zukan. Vanity 0005, 1980
- Big Picture. Big Picture. Little More, LMCA-1002, 2001
- Big Picture. Big Picture. CD-R
- Blind Light. The Absence of Time. Alida, ALIDA-001, 1994
- Anton Fier. Dreamspeed/Blind Light 1992–1994. 2-CD set Tzadik, TZ 7609 2003
- Anton Fier. Dreamspeed. Avant, AVAN-009, 1993
- Novo Tono. Live. CD-R. 2001
- Novo Tono. Panorama Paradise. Alida/Creativeman, CMDD-00038, 1996
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Dreams. Tzadik, TZ 7238, 2002
- Otomo Yoshihide. Otomo Yoshihide Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita. P-Vine, PCD-5804, 1999
- The Unknown Cases, and Phew. Koyasan. Fünfundvierzig, MCD 45122, 2001
- Phew and Seiichi Yamamoto. Shiawase no Sumika. Tokuma Japan Communications, TKCH-71454, 1998
Compilations
- Pass No Past. 2-CD set Pass/P-Vine, SSAP-004/5, 2005
- Improvised Music from Japan. 10-CD set. Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-10CD, 2001
- Mottomo Otomo: Unlimited XIII. Trost, TR076, 2000
- Megabank Presents Tribute to New Wave. Megabank, MB-2.507CD, 1995
- Rebel Incorporated. 2-LP set, Wax, 17WXL-3001/3002; CD, Wax, 32WXD-101
