MAKI ASAKAWA [Honest Jon's]
€32.00
Catalogue : Honest Jon's / HJRLP111
Format : 2LP, Reissue
Condition : New
Country : UK
Released : 2015
Genre : Jazz, Soul
A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of the great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa. 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, defamiliarised versions of Oscar Brown Jr and Bessie Smith collide with big-band experiments alongside Shuji Terayama and spiritual jazz. With excellent notes by Alan Cummings and the fabulous photographs of Hitoshi Jin Tamura, a true masterpiece.
Format : 2LP, Reissue
Condition : New
Country : UK
Released : 2015
Genre : Jazz, Soul
A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of the great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa. 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, defamiliarised versions of Oscar Brown Jr and Bessie Smith collide with big-band experiments alongside Shuji Terayama and spiritual jazz. With excellent notes by Alan Cummings and the fabulous photographs of Hitoshi Jin Tamura, a true masterpiece.