Release Date: 16 October 2015
Label: Honest Jon's Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 827670414124
Genres: World Music  
Release Date: 16 October 2015
Label: Honest Jon's Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 827670414124
Genres: World Music  
Description
A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of this great Japanese singer and countercultural icon.
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; 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.
Tracklisting
Tony Allen
Various
Simone White
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Toumani Diabate
Guts
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Lolita
Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers
Lux Musicae London
Various Artists
Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt