Longing For The Shadow: Ryukoka Recordings 1921-39- Longing For The Shadow: Ryukoka Recordings 1921-39
Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryukoka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s ryukoka 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.
Tracklist:
- Akemi's Poems
- Longing for the Shadow
- Sad Gull
- Please Forgive Me
- If You Go Down the Tenryu
- Cosmos Elegy
- Tokyo Daughter
- Skyscraper
- The Dream Is Short Lived
- Is Sake Tears or Sighs?
- Yoneyama Sanri
- I Don't Forget
- Asama Smoke
- Farewell Ship
- Various Artists - Farewell Youth
- Stand Up Tomorrow
Emerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the ryukoka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s ryukoka 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.
Tracklist:
- Akemi's Poems
- Longing for the Shadow
- Sad Gull
- Please Forgive Me
- If You Go Down the Tenryu
- Cosmos Elegy
- Tokyo Daughter
- Skyscraper
- The Dream Is Short Lived
- Is Sake Tears or Sighs?
- Yoneyama Sanri
- I Don't Forget
- Asama Smoke
- Farewell Ship
- Various Artists - Farewell Youth
- Stand Up Tomorrow