Bitter Lake
PORTRAY HEADS - s/t 2LP
Japanese minimal wave band.
Limited to 999 copies on 160 gram double vinyl, presented in high quality matte gatefold jackets featuring a rare photograph and the story behind the band.
Portray Heads rarely had the opportunity to perform live and eventually disbanded with their two releases quietly becoming collector's items. Upon making contact, band leader Tohru Tomita revealed to us two unheard demo recordings, one from each vocalist featured on their records. These recordings are not merely disposable studio experiments, but actually rival or surpass in quality the group’s released music. With this double LP, Minimal Wave Records and Bitter Lake Recordings present to you the recorded discography of one of the most overlooked and underrated minimal synth projects coming out of Japan in the 1980s.