Buy tape or download here:
https://deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/longing-for-the-shadow-ry-k-ka-recordings-1921-1939
Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryūkōka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music.
This collection of 1920s & 30s ryūkōka recordings follows on from the Kouta Katsutaro tape we put out a couple of years back, and further captures the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread influence of western pop music during post-war US occupation.
Tracklist:
01 Seki Taneko - Akemi's Poems 0:00
02 Kusunoki Shigeo - Longing For The Shadow 3:26
03 Yayoi Tanaka - Sad Gull 7:01
04 Akasaka Koume - Please Forgive Me 10:25
05 Ichimaru - If You Go Down The Tenryu 13:37
06 Mitsuko Nemoto - Cosmos Elegy 16:52
07 Ichiro Fujiyama - Tokyo Daughter 19:38
08 Chiyako Sato - Skyscraper 22:22
09 Yayoi Tanaka - The Dream Is Short Lived 25:32
10 Ichiro Fujiyama & Masao Koga - Is Sake Tears Or Sighs? 28:38
11 Otomaru - Yoneyama Sanri 32:05
12 Hamako Watanabe - I Don't Forget 35:30
13 Akasaka Koume - Asama Smoke 38:43
14 Yoshio Tabata - Farewell Ship 42:24
15 Ichiro Fujiyama - Farewell Youth 46:02
16 Kouta Katsutaro - Stand Up Tomorrow 48:48
0 Comments