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CHIEMI ERI

CHIEMI ERI (LP)
Label AKUPHONE
Catalog AKULP1002
Format LP
Discs 1
Category WORLD/OTHERS/REGGAE
Street Date 2017-10-13
Description
This edition includes exclusive liner notes and a rich calligraphed booklet containing the romanization of lyrics. Akuphone has brought together 16 songs from 10” albums originally released by King Records (Japan) between 1958 and 1962. Chiemi Eri is considered as one of the most famous Japanese singers of the 20th century, more precisely of the Showa era (1926-1989), named after the Japanese emperor of the time, better known under his westernized name Hirohito. Both a singer and an actress – she played in more than 50 films - she definitely made a mark in the post-war Japanese cultural landscape, along with fellow singer-actresses Izumi Yukimura and Hibari Misora.The success of these true national icons, who were nicknamed « the three sisters », can be connected to the specific context of the time, that is the cultural opening of Japan which, although initiated a century before, accelerated with the US military occupation of the archipelago (1945-1952). This period saw the import of popular musical styles of the time: jazz, be-bop, swing, mambo, etc, as well as the development of a hybrid musical style - the Kayokyoku - which consists of a delicious mix of so-called “western” music with Japanese music. Combining vocal jazz, Latino rhythms and Japanese folk, this new compilation of Chiemi Eri offers an original musical syncretism. Supported by Tadaaki Misago and the Tokyo Cuban Boys – the oldest and most prolific latin-jazz group in Japan – Chiemi Eri sings themes, in Japanese, that are mainly taken from the traditional folklore.. Chiemi Eri also reveals the vocal prowess specific to the Min’yo, in particular the kobushi, a sort of melisma – this vocal technic that consists in singing a single syllable while moving between several different notes in succession.
tracklisting
1. Okosa-bushi
2. Shinonome-bushi
3. Otemo-yan
4. Dodoitsu
5. Mamuro-gawa Ondo
6. Hanagasa Odori
7. Tabaru-zaka
8. Itsuki-no Komoriuta
9. Yakko-san
10. Fukagawa Kuzushi
11. Kiso-bushi
12. Kushimoto-bushi
13. Sano-sa
14. Kuroda-bushi
15. Sado Okesa
16. Saitaro-bushi
 

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