Maki Asakawa – Maki Asakawa [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Burial and Basic Channel

Burial and Basic Channel

the only thing that I could naturally create was noise

An awkward thwack marathon of crumbled guitar noise

letting every thought and feeling whisks itself away up in the air

but the overall mood here is sober and introspective

Maki Asakawa – Maki Asakawa [2LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Burial and Basic Channel"A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of this great Japanese singer and countercultural icon. Deep indigo, dead of night enka, folk and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone. A traditional waltz abuts Nico style incantation; defamiliarised versions of Oscar Brown Jr and Bessie Smith collide with big band experiments alongside Shuji Terayama; a sitar led psychedelic wig out runs into a killer excursion in modal, spiritual