Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 /

Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 / Various

2017 collection, the first-ever fully licensed compilation of this music to be released outside Japan. In mid-to-late 1960s Tokyo, young musicians and college students were drawn to Shibuya's Dogenzaka district for the jazz and rock kissas, or cafes, that dotted it's winding hilly streets. Some of these spaces doubled as performance venues, providing a stage for local regulars like Hachimitsu Pie with their The Band-like ragged Americana, Tetsuo Saito with his spacey philosophical folk, and the influential Happy End, who successfully married the unique cadences of the Japanese language to the rhythms of the American West Coast. For many years Dogenzaka remained a center of the city's New Music scene. Meanwhile a different kind of music subculture was beginning to emerge in the Kansai region around Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. Far more political than their eastern counterparts, many of the Kansai-based "underground" artists began in the realm of protest folk music. They include Takashi Nishioka and his progressive folk collective Itsutsu No Akai Fuusen, the "Japanese Joni Mitchell" Sachiko Kanenobu, and The Dylan II, whose members ran The Dylan cafe in Osaka, which became a hub for the scene. Even a Tree Can Shed Tears also includes the bluesy avant-garde stylings of Maki Asakawa, future Sadistic Mika Band founder Kazuhiko Kato with his fuzzy, progressive psychedelia, the beatnik acid folk of Masato Minami, and the intimate living room folk of Kenji Endo. Nearly 50 years on, this New Music is born anew.
Country USA
Brand AGAINST THE GRAIN.
Manufacturer Light in the Attic
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber LITACD 156
ReleaseDate 2017-10-20
UnitCount 1
Format Compilation
UPCs 826853015622
EANs 0826853015622

Country	USA
Brand	AGAINST THE GRAIN.
Manufacturer	Light in the Attic
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	LITACD 156
ReleaseDate	2017-10-20
UnitCount	1
Format	Compilation
UPCs	826853015622
EANs	0826853015622

Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 / Various

You might also like...