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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Kazuki Tomokawa
t i t l e : Sora No Sakana
d a t e : 1999
l a b e l : PSF PSFD-8003
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : nov-17-2004
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 53,0 MB
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This was the seventh CD in the 13-CD Kazuki Tomokawa "Box"
released by PSF on 25 June 2003 (PSFD-134--146).
Translation of the title mentioned on the spine: "Sky fish".
For reasons of continuity I keep the Japanese transcription.
"Latest album from Tomokawa -- Japan's other greatest
underground folk singer, not to mention accomplished poet and
painter, inveterate on-stage drunk, and now successful
bicycle-race tipster. Eight new tracks of deeply zoned,
uniquely identifiable, pure folk-soul communication, that range
from melodies of limpid beauty, to sudden plunges into
viciously hammered guitar, that voice rising, now screaming,
and cracking into violent fragments as the other instruments
following into a flailing and cathartic rhythmic purge. On Sora
No Sakana, Tomokawa returns to some familiar obsessions -- the
possibilities of the nursery rhyme form, musical settings for
the poems of Japan's tragic symbolist poet Chuya Nakahara (in
the '70s Tomokawa recorded an entire album of Nakahara's
poems), and deceptively opaque natural imagery. At the centre
of each song is Tomokawa's acoustic guitar and unmistakable
voice, augmented with an unusually resourceful and sympathetic
group of longterm collaborators (including Toshiaki Ishizuka
from Vajra). A unique individualist talent worthy of more
support." -- Alan Cummings
The original titles are in Japanese characters, but for the
first time all the track titles are translated in the booklet.
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01-Spring Comes Again [03:03]
02-People From Dreamtown [04:16]
03-The Kindly Good-For-Nothing [07:00]
04-Children Who Carry The Times [02:02]
05-No Matter How Old I Get, I Still Wanna Play [04:15]
06-The Man Who Joined Hands With The Sky [03:21]
07-A Life Of Mistakes [01:43]
08-Sky Fish [06:25]
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32:05 min
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