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Longing for the Shadow: Ry​ū​k​ō​ka Recordings, 1921​-​1939

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VUKARI
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VUKARI Lovely singing and great music. I can really feel the emotion behind each song and how it's sung. The mix of east and west sounds is very inspiring. Long before we had wars we had each others music and were drawn to the sound. The music is beautiful.
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Robert Bloemkolk Western music meets traditional Japanese folk and it works out quite incredible. Favorite track: Sad Gull.
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big leg tender comp likely to turn ur vision black + white and frayed at the edges Favorite track: The Dream Is Short Lived.
Deferent Golgi
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Deferent Golgi Although the collision of old and new in the interwar period was more or less universal, Japan’s experience has a special drama and poignancy, and these brittle shellac records manage to be intensely full of life and yearning even now, separated from us by a century. Favorite track: Asama Smoke.
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orsonwiles It almost sounds like real 1920s Japanese people. Favorite track: Asama Smoke.
PadraigC
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PadraigC I bought this cd before the first track was finished. An amazing album, it really does take you away to another time and place. Great production and the music itself is class. The vocal are truly brilliant. Favorite track: Akemi's Poems.
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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.

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released June 25, 2021

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