Maki Asakawa – Maki Asakawa [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield letting every thought and feeling

letting every thought and feeling whisks itself away up in the air

iPhone overload

but the overall mood here is sober and introspective

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In Love Song (2016)

Maki Asakawa – Maki Asakawa [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield letting every thought and feeling"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