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01. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Aoshi
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02. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Dany Boya
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03. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Ankotsubaki Gaiden
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04. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Taria
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05. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Kamome
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06. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Furusato
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07. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Narayamabushiko
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08. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Maronie
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09. MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN - Shiroi Inu
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ARTIST
MIKAMI/JOHN EDWARDS/ALEX NIELSON, KAN
TITLE
Live at Cafe Oto
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
OTOROKU
CATALOG #
ROKU 013LP
ROKU 013LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
1/12/2018
LP version. 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.
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