日本のレコード業界における初期段階で出現した「流行歌」を収めたコンピレーションに第2弾が登場! 西洋のクラシック、ブルース、ジャズの要素を日本の伝統音楽とクラシック音楽に取り入れた流行歌。本作に収められた1920年代と30年代のコレクションは、数年前にリリースした小唄勝太郎のテープに続くものであり、文化的融合が始まったころの独特ともいえるスタイルを見事に収めている。
A further volume of rykka recordings, covering the end of the 1920s though to the late 1930s, supplementing the recent Longing for the Shadow collection...
Emerging 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.
Is It Really Goodbye? further collects pre-war rykka records which capture the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread influence of western pop music during post-war US occupation.
ソングリスト
1.Fumiko Yotsuya - Let's Dance the Tango
2.Kiyoshi Utsumi & Asami Kuji - A Wandering Journey
3.Kusunoki Shigeo - White Camellia Song
4.Michiyakko - Oh, That's It
5.Nakano Rhythm Boys - Kazuhisa Yamadera
6.Noriko Awaya - Blues for Farewell
7.Kouta Katsutaro - Kanaka's Daughter
8.Sato Chiyako - Tokyo March
9.Wantanabe Hamako - I'll Forget It
10.Dick Mine - Yukari's Song
11.Fujiyama Ichiro - Recollection
12.Kouta Katsutaro & Shigeo Kusunoki - Tairiku Bushi
13.Issei Mishima - Over the Kuroshio
14.Fumiko Yotsuya - The Izu Dancer (Dancer's Song)
15.Hanko Kagurazaka & Toshiro Oumi - Hatsukoi Nikki
16.Akasaka Koume - Is It Really Goodbye?
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