Sunday, August 16, 2020

VA - Even a Tree Can Shed Tears. Japanese Folk and Rock (1969-1973) [2017]




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VA - Even a Tree Can Shed Tears. Japanese Folk and Rock (1969-1973) [2017]


The first-ever fully licensed compilation of this music to be released outside Japan. In mid-to-late 1960s Tokyo, young musicians and college students were drawn to Shibuya's Dogenzaka district for the jazz and rock kissas, or cafes, that dotted it's winding hilly streets. Some of these spaces doubled as performance venues, providing a stage for local regulars like Hachimitsu Pie with their The Band-like ragged Americana, Tetsuo Saito with his spacey philosophical folk, and the influential Happy End, who successfully married the unique cadences of the Japanese language to the rhythms of the American West Coast. For many years Dogenzaka remained a center of the city's New Music scene. Meanwhile a different kind of music subculture was beginning to emerge in the Kansai region around Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. Far more political than their eastern counterparts, many of the Kansai-based "underground" artists began in the realm of protest folk music. They include Takashi Nishioka and his progressive folk collective Itsutsu No Akai Fuusen, the "Japanese Joni Mitchell" Sachiko Kanenobu, and The Dylan II, whose members ran The Dylan cafe in Osaka, which became a hub for the scene. Even a Tree Can Shed Tears also includes the bluesy avant-garde stylings of Maki Asakawa, future Sadistic Mika Band founder Kazuhiko Kato with his fuzzy, progressive psychedelia, the beatnik acid folk of Masato Minami, and the intimate living room folk of Kenji Endo. Nearly 50 years on, this New Music is born anew. (Amazon)

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VA - Even a Tree Can Shed Tears. Japanese Folk and Rock (1969-1973) [2017]
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VA - Even a Tree Can Shed Tears. Japanese Folk and Rock (1969-1973) [2017]

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Track lists
01    Kenji Endo    Curry Rice    3:02
02    Kazuhiko Yamahira & the Sherman    Sotto Futari De    2:52
03    Sachiko Kanenobu    Anata Kara Toku E    3:30
04    Fluid    Rokudenashi    2:52
05    Kazuhiko Kato    Arthur Hakase No Jinriki Hikouki    5:46
06    Happy End    Natsu Nandesu    3:15
07    Takashi Nishioka    Man-In No Ki    4:07
08    Masato Minami    Yoru Wo Kugurinukeru Made    3:27
09    Maki Asakawa    Konna Fu Ni Sugite Iku No Nara    3:57
10    Fumio Nunoya    Mizu Tamari    2:28
11    Haruomi Hosono    Boku Wa Chotto    3:56
12    Takuro Yoshida    Aoi Natsu    3:05
13    Akai Tori    Takeda No Komori Uta    3:09
14    Gu    Marianne    6:28
15    Tetsuo Saito    Ware Ware Wa    5:44
16    Gypsy Blood    Sugishi Hi Wo Mitsumete    3:56
17    Hachimitsu Pie    Hei No Ue De    6:29
18    Ryo Kagawa    Zeni No Kouryouryoku Ni Tsuite    4:01
19    The Dylan Ii    Otokorashiitte Wakaru Kai    4:41

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5 comments:

  1. I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so ... ♪♫♪

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    1. Hi D,
      Did you vapors in your eyes? :)
      What a great album. I have listened to this one many times over and always find something new. Enjoy.

      Cheers.

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  2. Just finished. This is a real treat! Thank you so much

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    1. Hi Nancy McClelland,
      Glad you got something from this great set. I thought is was a real treat and find too.

      Cheers.

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  3. This was a good one! You are correct.. a real treat. I appreciate it.

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