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The Fulukotofumi is the most important and ancient historical chronicle of Japan. The content of this work becomes an inspiration for the creation of a sound transposition of the legends and myths that most marked the spirit and inspiration of Hiromasa Suzuki, as a musician and as a high-level composer. The music that is concentrated between these grooves is a representation of the best that moved in the early seventies in the jazz-rock orbit at an international level; in addition, very strong infiltrations of tradition, characterized above all by the extremely calibrated and perfectly ad hoc interventions of the Biwa (lute of the Japanese tradition once used by blind monks to recite poems) and the Wadaiko drum. From its entirety, a highly evocative and magical sketch in nine suites emerges, a viaticum towards the most ancestral past of Japan, but at the same time also immersed in the modernity and expressive relevance of the land of the rising sun. A masterpiece that, buried for too long in the archives, is finally back reissued on vinyl with original graphics on its gatefold cover and enriched by an insert with the translations of the precious introductory essay contained in its original edition. Accompanying Suzuki's acoustic and electric piano is the crème of Japanese jazz that gives free rein to one's primordial instincts. Some passages come close to progressive, especially thanks to Kiyoshi Sugimoto's Allan Holdsworth style guitar.

Trackliste

A1 あめのいわやど = Ame No Iwayado
A2 ハヤブサワケとメドリのオホキミ = Hayabusawake To Medori No Ohokimi
A3 アシハラシコオ = Ashihara Shikoo
A4 ウルワシトさ寝しさ寝てば = Uruwashito Sanechi Saneteba
B1 カムヤマトイワレヒコ = Kamuyamatoiwarehiko
B2 肥の川 = Hinokawa
B3 あなにやしえをとめを = Ananiyashiewotomewo
B4 ワタツミのイロコノミヤ = Watatsumi No Irokonomiya
B5 やまとしうるはし = Yamatoshi Uruhashi