{"product_id":"杉本キクイ-杉本シズ-難波コトミ-瞽女唄-goze-1","title":"杉本キクイ, 杉本シズ, 難波コトミ – 瞽女唄 (Goze)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: 川辺書林 – T-590594\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cassette, Album, Box Set\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Japan\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 16 Oct 1995\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Folk, World, \u0026amp; Country\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Folk, Min'yō\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntense and otherworldly documentary book\/tape hybrid capturing the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003etranscendental\u003c\/span\u003e power of Japan's mystical Goze people - that is blind, itinerant woman who travel door to door singing ancient folk tales for money.  With beautiful picture booklet.  Hard to find!!!! (NM)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGoze is a term that relates to visually-impaired female musicians who roam the countryside (mostly in the rugged North Westerly region of Niigata), scraping a living going door-to-door playing a particular style of vernacular folk music with voice and shamisen.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eTheir stripped back and emotionally-intense improvised folk songs focus on sexually explicit content laced heavy with innuendo, double-love suicides or other dramatic \/ taboo content.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBeing outliers in a typically ridged Japanese society, they were often ostracised and persecuted, forming bonds within their own unit utilising a form of tactile language.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eAlthough, they carried the oral traditions of the countryside, almost as living history books of regional stories, tales and tragedies but as their numbers are dwindling, their culture is becoming extinct, leaving this box as an archival document of their heritage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTheir minimal min’yo style is totally hypnotic.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eStripped-back cylindrical motifs on the shamisen, with a detached but at times emotionally-piecing vocal delivery, often solo but occasionally in an accompanying trio.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIt’s rare that music really transcends language, lyrically its way beyond ours (and most’s) comprehension, but years of struggle and hardship is heavily entwined within their sound like wrinkles on skin which speaks deeply to the human condition.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWe’ve still never really encountered anything as revelatory, profound and beautifully presented as this within the world of ethnographic music.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eA really special isolated artefact.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA        葛の葉の子別れ    26:44\u003cbr\u003eB1        かわいがらんせ    1:11\u003cbr\u003eB2        新磯節    5:36\u003cbr\u003eB3        新井甚句    5:42\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"387\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyIUxL2yL1k\" title=\"杉本キクイ - 葛の葉の子別れ\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56529076912510,"sku":"T-590594","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_0655_0ad38a33-3a98-4aee-a8f5-3705ba087b81.jpg?v=1762526686","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/%e6%9d%89%e6%9c%ac%e3%82%ad%e3%82%af%e3%82%a4-%e6%9d%89%e6%9c%ac%e3%82%b7%e3%82%ba-%e9%9b%a3%e6%b3%a2%e3%82%b3%e3%83%88%e3%83%9f-%e7%9e%bd%e5%a5%b3%e5%94%84-goze-1","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}