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TSURUMI RECORDS

With a focus on our love for vinyl, Tsurumi Records has one simple goal: Release music that truly moves the listener. In support of our artists and audience, we are a record label dedicated to pressing, promoting, and selling records. We've modeled our label based the days when you could purchase an album without a sample listen, simply because of your trust in the label that released it. We feel it's most important we remain a trustworthy source for refreshing and interesting music.

These are the new records from Tsurumi. They are all designed as full-length albums, with distinct side 1 and side 2 experiences. Each of them tackle the human condition with spell binding lyrics.

Tour Dates

The Grave from Out of Which We Briefly Wander Cover
  • The Grave from Out of Which We Briefly Wander
  • Rock, Alternative
  • The Second Academy
  • 04/28/2009
  • The Second Academy - The Grave from Out of Which We Briefly Wander
Liner Notes: Recorded mostly in a metal shop in Ballard. Mixed, mastered by Aaron Mason at Bell Sound studios in LA CA. The Second Academy is Eric Balaban, with Troy Lund (drums) and Brent Powell (bass) on The Wasp, Liam Hon (piano) and Nan Schwarz (cello) on Pretty One (LP only). Special thanks to Jeff Robertson for playing the tape in the background during the recording of Bad Thoughts. It takes a special flame to light the fire. more info: www.tsurumirecords.com
  1. The King and Queen of Filth...
  2. Bad Thoughts!
  3. Little Sister
  4. The Right Woman
  5. Adventure Tuesday
  6. Monkey Shines
  7. The Wasp
  8. Aftergrass
  9. Posthumous Lullaby
  10. Earl
  11. Downhill
Golden Cover
  • Golden
  • Rock, Alternative
  • Golden
  • 04/28/2009
  • Golden - Golden
Liner Notes: All songs written by Kota Saito, except: Gray Sky, Morning Sea written by Saito/Kojima/Tashiro. Each songs recorded and mixed at several places in deferent seasons by Ken Matsuoka and GOLDEN, except: (baby, your love is truly) Golden, Go,Gal, Gray Sky, Morning Sea and European Fly recorded and mixed by GOLDEN. Black Star Shining, The Stranger and North Gate mixed by Yoshinori Ohashi. All re-mastered in Seattle. Lyrics translation was helped by Yuko Sueta and Tobby Driver, New York. Cover drawing by Kota Saito. Inside photograph by Eric Balaban. Band photograph by M. Thanks: Jeff Davis and his family, Eric Balaban, Tsurumi Records stuffs, Macky Ramone, Ken Matsuoka, Yoshinori Ohashi, Yuko Sueta and Toby Driver, Hiroaki Masuda, Miwako, Rika, and all of my families and friends. (p)2008 TSURUMI RECORDS, (c)2008 GOLDEN, all rights reserved. More Information: http://www.goldlore.net http://www.tsurumirecords.com
  1. Horse With No Rider
  2. Black Star Shining
  3. Solo
  4. (baby, Your Love Is Truly) Golden...
  5. Go, Gal
  6. The Stranger
  7. Blue Bird, Murder
  8. Gray Sky, Morning Sea
  9. European Fly
  10. Girl On a Horse
  11. North Gate
  12. Slow Number
Chikara Cover
  • Chikara
  • Rock, Alternative
  • The Beautiful Mothers
  • 05/02/2009
  • The Beautiful Mothers - Chikara
Liner Notes: A man I had never met, who spoke very little English to my even poorer Japanese, grabbed me by the arm as I walked through a crowd in Shimisu after a set. He licked his lips and wrung his hands as he wavered, almost as high as was his friend next to him. He was grimacing, and I couldn’t tell if he was angry or not. He held me by my shoulders and said “you…” a few times, as he wrestled with what he was trying to say, and I admit I started to get a little nervous as his friend moved in closer. Then, in frustration he shook his fists and said “chikara!” and wrote the huge character on the front of my shirt. We spent that night, and many others, partying in his shack above the ocean. That’s how Billy-san unknowingly named this album. - TBM Chikara was assembled and mastered by Jack Endino - Tracks 1-4. The LA Sleaze Session. These songs were originally released on demo-like CD called Hikikomori, and re-recorded in LA at Bell Sound Studios by Aaron Mason. On the way back from Japan, Rob and Jeff put the basic tracks to tape while Eric was stranded in San Francisco with a mysterious and unsettling inner ear imbalance. Track 5. Part of the out-of-print, clear vinyl Rock N Roll 7” recorded & mixed by Jack Endino at Hanzek studio. Features Jeff Silva on drums. Track 6. A lost tape. Recovered and completed for this album. Vocals recorded and track mixed by Jack Endino at Soundhouse in Seattle. Tracks 7-10. These tracks are remastered from a compilation CD recorded by Jesse O’Donnell at Autopsy Room in Tacoma Washington. Track 11. The Seattle Garage Session. Originally intended for a split 7” with Japanese band Sparks and Twinky and the Mothers. Recorded at the metal shop in Ballard, WA during Sparks and Twinky’s American tour with DJ Mackey Ramone. Sachiya plays guitar on this version of Sheltered. Thanks to all the following, and probably many others: DJ Mackey Ramone, Hiroki, Kota Saito and Golden, Howling Guitar, Sachiya, Mr O., Billy-san, Tsuyoshi and the Shell Rockets, the Buzz Crew, Jack Endino, Aaron Mason, Brian Traynum, Bar 107, Jesse O’Donnell, KEXP, KXLU, Hell’s Kitchen, & everyone who came to see us live. more info: www.tsurumirecords.com
  1. Cold Sweat
  2. Kraegers
  3. Among the Suicides
  4. Last of the World's Gentlemen...
  5. Let It End
  6. The Idiot's Argument
  7. Orphans
  8. Smart Ass and the Dumb
  9. The Great Taming Force
  10. Gaijin Super
  11. Sheltered (w/Sachiya)