Burned rare groove wildcards for dedicated
diggers here. The label in japan 180g released some incredible albums. This set of
Japanese funk evokes the fragrance of a Tokyo izakaya in the mid 1970s.
The
term "wamono" is used to refer to vintage Japanese records that sizzle
with lounge type charm - specifically disco, funk and jazz from the 1970s
and '80s. This latest collection of wamono from the 180g label
highlights the work of arranger Kiyoshi Yamaya, who works here with koto
player (A Koto is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument) Toshiko Yonekawa and shakuhachi player (is a Japanese end-blown bamboo flute) Kifu Mitsuhashi to
formulate a groove that sits between traditional music and decadent
Blaxploitation groove. These are the kind of sounds you'd expect
to bubble up from the celluloid in a midnight movie double-bill, the
themes are eerily familiar, but the instrumental selections give each
riff a spark of fresh life. Needless to say, sections of these tracks
feel as if they've been tailor-made for sampling or creative mixing.
Good stuff.
AMM
The Tasters!
Tracks & Credits
A1 Nanbu Ushioi-Uta (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
A2 Isohama Bon-Uta (feat. Toshiko Yonekawa)
A3 Hohai-Bushi (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
A4 Otemoyan (feat. Toshiko Yonekawa)
A5 Aizu Bandaisan (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
B1 Saitaro-Bushi (feat. Toshiko Yonekawa)
B2 Soma Nagareyama (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
B3 Yagi-Bushi (feat. Toshiko Yonekawa)
B4 Asadoya Yunta (feat. Kifu Mitsuhashi)
B5 Konpira Fune Fune (feat. Toshiko Yonekawa)
Arranged By – Kiyoshi Yamaya
Artwork – Nicolas Kerembellec
Bass – Kimio Koizumi (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B1, B2, B4), Kunimitsu Inaba (tracks: A4, B3, B5)
Drums – Kazuyoshi Okayama
Executive Producer – Greg Gouty, Maxime Brottes
Guitar – Kiyoshi Sugimoto (tracks: A2 to B5), Mitsuo Murakami (tracks: A1)
Koto – Toshiko Yonekawa
Lacquer Cut By – JSA
Mastered By – Jukka Sarapää
Percussion – Hiroo Umezawa (tracks: A5), Osamu Nakajima (tracks: A4)
Piano – Hiromu Hisatomi (tracks: A2, B1), Keisuke Egusa (tracks: A3, A5, B2, B4), Naoya Matsuoka (tracks: A1)
Shakuhachi – Kifu Mitsuhashi
Tenor Saxophone – Jake Concepcion (tracks: B3, B5)
Trombone – Tadataka Nakazawa (tracks: B3, B5), Yoshitsugu Nishimura (tracks: B3, B5)
Trumpet – Takehisa Suzuki (tracks: B3, B5), Tetsuo Fushimi (tracks: B3, B5)
Vibraphone – Isao Kanayama (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B2 to B5), Ryusei Matsuzaki (tracks: A2, B1)
12 comments:
This must have been a wonderful time in Tokyo's jazz clubs ... Thanks for review, P.
Thanks AMM for the instrument descriptions else no idea.
Great Review Thank you AMM
This looks interesting .
Let's get started on the wamono trip. Thank you AMM.
You convinced me because I liked this LP in this musical style which is a bit off the beaten track.
Thank you for this discovery.
Yves
Very interesting... many thanks for this review AMM
BigD
thanks for this i never knew!
Great review of these great performers
Cheers Pedro
Another thanks!!
Great looking album, looking forward to taking a listen Reb
More great Asian fusion. Like the koto work. Hiroshima was the group that hooked me o that sound. Thanks!!!
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