[acid folk] Kazuki Tomokawa

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Kazuki Tomokawa

2003 Nakahara Chuya Sakuhinnshu



Kazuki Tomokawa is a prolific Japanese acid-folk singer, poet, author, artist and racing tipster, active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. He is often described as a “screaming philosopher” due to his idiosyncratic singing style. Whether screaming his lungs out while thrashing his guitar within an inch of its life (his legendarily wild performances frequently end up with all strings snapped during a single song), creating gorgeously romantic and limpid tone-scapes, Tomokawa never remains any less than himself. He walks a path of untutored intelligence, piercing sensitivity, and fully exorcised passions all too rare in the shallow husk of today’s debased world. Very nice music if you are into this kind of stuff.

As of recently, his music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Koji Wakamatsu, and he also appears in person in Miike’s Izo (2004).

Tracklist:

01. Circus (4:46)
02. Rinjyu (2:36)
03. Kojyo (3:50)
04. Kikyo (3:07)
05. Kuwana no Eki (3:49)
06. Natsu no Hi no Uta (2:50)
07. Yogore-chimatta Kanashimi ni (2:54)
08. Haru no Hi no Yuugure (3:10)
09. Rokugatsu no Ame (4:31)
10. Boya (2:57)

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