Straight from the Throat (Reissue)

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Vinyl LP

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Kazuki Tomokawa catapulted into Tokyo’s avant-garde scene in the 1970s with his cathartic and utterly electrifying performances. The artist's second album Straight from the Throatreleased in July 1976 by Harvest Records, finds the musician in his truest form: as the “screaming philosopher” he would come to be called – cynical but fair, cheeky and melancholic, and looking at the world with truth-seeking eyes. In Straight from the Throat, Tomokawa shrieks and shouts and wallows with ritualistic abandon – his avant-folk stylings are cosmic and, at times, well to ground-shaking rock. He speaks of adolescence, passing hearses, and wedding chapel cars in a poem to his younger brother, Tomoharu, and watches ice melt on the Mitane River with spring’s turn. Tomokawa’s sound is, as Kiichi Takahara would later dub it, “I-music”: revelatory and deeply intimate songs that turn to the everyday and the interior. They are portraits of a man in search of meaning, who is taking stubborn control of his life by doing so. As he croons in 'The Spring Is Here Again Song', “I’ll drink till I’ve had my fill / And fall in love until I die.”

 


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