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01. MAKI ASAKAWA - Nemuru No Ga Kowai
02. MAKI ASAKAWA - Chicchana Toki Kara (Live)
03. MAKI ASAKAWA - Blue Spirit Blues
04. MAKI ASAKAWA - Fushiawase To Lu Na No Neko
05. MAKI ASAKAWA - Govinda
06. MAKI ASAKAWA - Chicchana Toki Kara
07. MAKI ASAKAWA - Boro To Furutetsu
08. MAKI ASAKAWA - Aisa Nai No Aise Nai No
09. MAKI ASAKAWA - Uramado
10. MAKI ASAKAWA - Kamome
11. MAKI ASAKAWA - Machi
12. MAKI ASAKAWA - Gogo
13. MAKI ASAKAWA - Zenkamono No Christmas
14. MAKI ASAKAWA - Hikkoshi
15. MAKI ASAKAWA - Cabaret
16. MAKI ASAKAWA - Konna Funi Sugite Iku No Nara
17. MAKI ASAKAWA - Onna
18. MAKI ASAKAWA - Yuki Ga Furu
ARTIST
TITLE
Maki Asakawa
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 111LP HJR 111LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2015

2023 repress; double LP version. 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