Pongchak Art 1001

The world’s first Pongchak cassette art book reveals the shared history of music and art in Korea. Produced in astonishing quantities from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and almost completely unrelated to mass media, the package art featured in this anthology is drawn from a collection that was launched 40 years ago, thanks to the Phantom Masterpiece Liberation League. Its three members – special manga artist Kei Nemoto, music critic Manabu Yuasa, and freelance writer Hideo Funabashi – have made efforts to unearth forgotten masterpieces, not necessarily obscure albums. Few things can compare to diverse range of expressions you will encounter here.