Sean Wolcott – Lady Swordfighter: Escape from Hachijo-jima (LP pre-order)

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Pre-Order: Ships late July 2025 (limited 300). 
Includes digital WAV and MP3 files on digital release date (May 23).

Sean Wolcott returns with “Lady Swordfighter: Escape from Hachijō-jima”—his ninth library album and a prequel to the global underground hit. This 19-track odyssey descends into a brutal prison island and ascends in a blaze of vengeance.

Delivering an earth-shattering dose of psychedelic jazz-funk, jidaigeki, and haunted exploitation score, it fuses traditional Japanese instrument masters—shakuhachi, koto, shinobue, taiko, and Noh—with neck-snapping grooves, fuzzed-out psych, ritual drums, soaring horns, and soul-drenched ballads.

All songs written, produced, arranged, and recorded by Sean Wolcott at Soundview Analog Recorders.

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Tracklist:
A

1. The Story of the Broken Blade (01:08)
2. (Theme From) Escape from Hachijō-jima (02:56)
3. Death in Defense at Shimabara Yūkaku (02:28)
4. Massacre at Minamiarima (02:06)
5. Ballad of Prisoner 47: The Betrayed (01:24)
6. At the Gates of an Unwelcoming Buddha (03:15)
7. Ballad of Prisoner 34: The Avenger (01:22)
8. Sisters of the Iron Chain (02:45)
9. Punishment of the Sword Tester (02:55)
10. Ballad of Prisoner 55: The Fortune Teller (01:16)

B

11. Bad Girls Go to Hell (02:31)
12. Ballad of Prisoner 13: The Bandit (01:24)
13. Uprising in Cellblock Seven (01:57)
14. Bloom of the Barren Cherry Blossom (01:44)
15. Ko-omote Mask of Warden Ichirō (03:44)
16. Ballad of Prisoner 68: The Wrongly Accused (02:04)
17. Blaze at the Devil’s Island (01:46)
18. Together We Are Free (03:12)
19. On the Shore of Revenge (03:10)