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MAKI ASAKAWA 2xLP/1970's Japan/Chanteuse/Modal Jazz/Enka/Blues/Scott Walker
Sold Date:
November 6, 2021
Start Date:
September 22, 2021
Final Price:
$34.98
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MAKI ASAKAWA 's/t' Double LP (UK, Honest Jons Records, Catalogue #HJRLP111) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2015 Honest Jons Records label Double LP edition/collection of legendary 1970's recordings of Modal Jazz/Nightclub Blues/Enka from legendary Japanese Chanteuse Maki Asakawa.
(NOTE: ALL RECORDS ARE PACKED AND SHIPPED IN PROFESSIONAL, SUPERIOR QUALITY RECTANGULAR SHAPED, CORNER PROTECTING CORRUGATED CARDBOARD RECORD MAILERS WITH FILLER PADS. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED!)
(NOTE: BRAND NEW/FACTORY SEALED ITEM!)
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa (1942-2010). Deep-indigo, dead-of-night enka, folk, and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone. A traditional waltz abuts Nico-style incantation; defamiliarized versions of Oscar Brown Jr. and Bessie Smith collide with big-band experiments alongside poet Shūji Terayama; a sitar-led psychedelic wig-out runs into a killer excursion in modal, spiritual jazz. Existentialism and noir, mystery and allure, hurt and hauteur. With excellent notes by Alan Cummings and the fabulous photographs of Hitoshi Jin Tamura. "Japan's answer to Scott Walker, with a visual aesthetic and a death-decadent appeal that is straight out of the Keiji Haino songbook." --Volcanic Tongue
- A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa (1942-2010).
- Deep-indigo, dead-of-night enka, folk, and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone, from sitar-led psychedelic wig-outs to killer excursions in modal, spiritual jazz.
- With excellent notes by Alan Cummings and the fabulous photographs of Hitoshi Jin Tamura.
- "Japan's answer to Scott Walker, with a visual aesthetic and a death-decadent appeal that is straight out of the Keiji Haino songbook." --Volcanic Tongue
Tracks on this Double LP are as follows
A1Nemuru No Ga KowaiA2Chicchana Toki Kara (Live)
A3Blue Spirit Blues
A4Fushiawase To Iu Na No Neko
A5Govinda
B1Chicchana Toki Kara
B2Boro To Furutetsu
B3Aisa Nai No Aise Nai No
B4Uramado
B5Kamome
C1Machi
C2Gogo
C3Zenkamono No Christmas
C4Hikkoshi
D1Cabaret
D2Konna Fūni Sugite Iku No Nara
D3Onna
D4Yuki Ga Furu
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