V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LP

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V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LPEmerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the rykka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s rykka 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

Bringing the recording studio to the bedroom is the tenet to stalwarts of the lo-fi movement

Packaged in an exact duplication of the original Zambian issue of this album

He played and recorded the piano

The songs then developed while on tours around Europe

Known for their intense

yet his work is closer in spirit to Kieran Daly’s slowly unfolding monophonic MIDI investigations

Its captivating atmosphere

“Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids

who was openly gay in Reagan-era Texas

It was an environment that would shape the band - a Bristol four piece made up of Barney Matthews

produces contemporary music and video game scores

is more thematically consistent