Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 Various Artists SKU: LITA156LP Barcode: 826853015615 33.00 £33.00 Genre: Folk Label: Light In The Attic Released Date: 20th October 2017 Buying Format: 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info * First-ever fully licensed compilation of this music to be released outside Japan. * Double LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket. * Artwork by illustrator Heisuke Kitazawa. * Includes extensive liner notes. There was something in the air in the urban corners of late ‘60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post-war years. Rejection of the Beatlemania-inspired Group Sounds and the squeaky clean College Folk movements led the rise of what came to be known in Japan as “New Music,” where authenticity mattered more than replicating the sounds of their idols. Some of the most influential figures in Japanese pop music emerged from this vital period, yet very little of their work has ever been released or heard outside of Japan, until now. Light In The Attic is thrilled to present Even a Tree Can Shed Tears, the inaugural release in the label’s Japan Archival Series. This is the first-ever, fully licensed collection of essential Japanese folk and rock songs from the peak years of the angura movement to reach Western audiences. In mid-to-late 1960s Tokyo, young musicians and college students were drawn to Shibuya’s Dogenzaka district for the jazz and rock kissas, or cafes, that dotted its winding hilly streets. Some of these spaces doubled as performance venues, providing a stage for local regulars like Hachimitsu Pie with their The Band-like ragged Americana, Tetsuo Saito with his spacey philosophical folk, and the influential Happy End, who successfully married the unique cadences of the Japanese language to the rhythms of the American West Coast. For many years Dogenzaka remained a center of the city’s “New Music” scene. Meanwhile a different kind of music subculture was beginning to emerge in the Kansai region around Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. Far more political than their eastern counterparts, many of the Kansai-based “underground” artists began in the realm of protest folk music. They include Takashi Nishioka and his progressive folk collective Itsutsu No Akai Fuusen, the “Japanese Joni Mitchell” Sachiko Kanenobu, and The Dylan II, whose members ran The Dylan cafe in Osaka, which became a hub for the scene. Even a Tree Can Shed Tears also includes the bluesy avant-garde stylings of Maki Asakawa, future Sadistic Mika Band founder Kazuhiko Kato with his fuzzy, progressive psychedelia, the beatnik acid folk of Masato Minami, and the intimate living room folk of Kenji Endo. Nearly 50 years on, this “New Music” is born anew. Artist Various Artists Genre Folk Label Light In The Attic Buying Options 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Curry Rice 2. Sotto Futari De 3. Anata Kara Toku E 4. Rokudenashi 5. Arthur Hakase No Jinriki Hikouki 6. Natsu Nandesu 7. Man-in No Ki 8. Yoru Wo Kugurinukeru Made 9. Konna Fu Ni Sugite Iku No Nara 10. Mizu Tamari 11. Boku Wa Chotto 12. Aoi Natsu 13. Takeda No Komori Uta 14. Marianne 15. Ware Ware Wa 16. Sugishi Hi Wo Mitsumete 17. Hei No Ue De 18. Zeni No Kouryouryoku Ni Tsuite 19. 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