{"product_id":"難波コトミ-杉本キクエ-五十嵐シズ-金子セキ-加藤イサ-中静ミサ-越後の瞽女唄-2","title":"難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ, 五十嵐シズ, 金子セキ, 加藤イサ, 中静ミサ – 越後の瞽女唄","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: CBS\/Sony – SODZ 1-3\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBox Set, OBI\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCountry: Japan\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: May 1975\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Folk, World, \u0026amp; Country\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStyle: Minimal, Min'yō, Folk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eExpansive, eye-opening, one of a kind 3LP boxset documenting the musical activities of Japan’s dwindling Goze community.\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  \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  \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  \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  \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  \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  \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  \u003c\/span\u003eA really special isolated artefact.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e(NM\/NM - with booklet and OBI).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e高田瞽女 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA1 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 門付唄（かわいがらんせ・こうといな・雨降り唄） 6:01\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA2 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 新保広大寺 2:54\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA3 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 地蔵和讃 3:25\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA4 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 話し松坂 9:42\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB1 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 松前（越後追分） 10:03\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB2 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 磯節 3:20\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB3 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 庄内 3:55\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB4 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 県づくし 7:11\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eC 難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ*, 五十嵐シズ– 葛の葉子別れ 23:47\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eD1 難波コトミ– 三人心中口説き 12:25\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eD2 難波コトミ– へそ穴口説き 10:25\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e長岡瞽女 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eE1 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 門付唄 3:04\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eE2 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 葛の葉子別れ 19:43\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eF1 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 松前（越後追分） 10:10\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eF2 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 磯節 4:07\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eF3 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 飯坂小唄 3:24\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eF4 金子セキ*, 加藤イサ*, 中静ミサ– 佐渡おけさ 4:20\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cwidgetic adaptive=\"414\" autoscale=\"on\" height=\"350\" width=\"500\" resize=\"fill-width\" id=\"64d394e9ecb2a155138b4567\"\u003e\u003c\/widgetic\u003e \u003ciframe title=\"難波コトミ, 杉本キクエ, 五十嵐シズ \u0026quot; 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