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01. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Aoshi
02. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Dany Boya
03. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Ankotsubaki Gaiden
04. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Taria
05. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Kamome
06. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Furusato
07. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Narayamabushiko
08. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Maronie
09. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Shiroi Inu
ARTIST
TITLE
Live at Cafe Oto
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ROKU 013CD ROKU 013CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/22/2017

Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin-shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people Mikami made his way to Tokyo in search of a life different from that of his parents. Since then he has forcefully carved out a space for himself in the culture as a modernist poet, a raging folk singer, an author, an actor, an engaging TV personality, and one of Japan's most uniquely powerful performers. For most of Mikami's career as a singer, he has performed solo; just him and his electric guitar against the world, creating jagged A-minor vamps to drive along the surreal wisdom of his lyrics. But he's equally at home in more demanding improvisational contexts such as those provided here by John Edwards on bass and Alex Nielson on drums. Their dense propulsive textures seem to spur on Mikami, his voice arcing powerfully into fragmented spaces, his guitar darting, colliding, shedding jagged and angular splinters of sound. A pulsing, raging maelstrom of serrated-edged energy. Gruff, rough, honest and very, very real.