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| Management number | 205700502 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $91.60 | Model Number | 205700502 | ||
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Title: String Of Paper Cranes Clenched Between My Teeth
Artist: Kazuki Tomokawa
Label: Blank Forms
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 769791978904
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2022-05-20
Number of Discs: 1
In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps "ever more inward, " as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record's original introductory text-embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an "attitude of total self-containment."Tomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month-from August 24 to September 25, 1977-at Tokyo's famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up: paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa's "screaming philosopher" vocals find their match with the orchestra's electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police's Toshi Ishizuka-who appears on Tomokawa's first three records and remains his collaborator to this day."This is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh, " concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa's uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. "You call that life?" he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, "try saying you're alive!"
Tracks:
1.1 Opening Theme
1.2 Try Saying You're Alive!
1.3 Kill or Be Killed
1.4 Memory
1.5 Got a Problem
1.6 Namahage
1.7 My Hometown Is Also Inside a Dog
1.8 The Boys of Hachiryü
1.9 The Donpan Song Goes Off the Rails
1.10 Runaway Boy
1.11 Missed My Time to Die
Artist: Kazuki Tomokawa
Label: Blank Forms
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 769791978904
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2022-05-20
Number of Discs: 1
In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps "ever more inward, " as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record's original introductory text-embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an "attitude of total self-containment."Tomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month-from August 24 to September 25, 1977-at Tokyo's famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up: paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa's "screaming philosopher" vocals find their match with the orchestra's electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police's Toshi Ishizuka-who appears on Tomokawa's first three records and remains his collaborator to this day."This is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh, " concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa's uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. "You call that life?" he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, "try saying you're alive!"
Tracks:
1.1 Opening Theme
1.2 Try Saying You're Alive!
1.3 Kill or Be Killed
1.4 Memory
1.5 Got a Problem
1.6 Namahage
1.7 My Hometown Is Also Inside a Dog
1.8 The Boys of Hachiryü
1.9 The Donpan Song Goes Off the Rails
1.10 Runaway Boy
1.11 Missed My Time to Die
Folk
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