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Kazuki Tomokawa - Straight from the Throat
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In
the
1970s,
Kazuki
Tomokawa
catapulted
into
Tokyo's
avant-garde
scene
with
his
cathartic
and
utterly
electrifying
performances.
Straight
from
the
Throat,
Tomokawa's
second
album,
released
in
July
1976
by
Harvest
Records,
finds
the
musician
in
his
truest
form:
as
the
"screaming
philosopher"
he
would
come
to
be
called—cynical
but
fair,
cheeky
and
melancholic,
and
looking
at
the
world
with
truth-seeking
eyes.
In
Straight
from
the
Throat,
Tomokawa
shrieks
and
shouts
and
wallows
with
ritualistic
abandon—his
avant-folk
stylings
are
cosmic
and,
at
times,
well
to
ground-shaking
rock.
He
speaks
of
adolescence,
passing
hearses,
and
wedding
chapel
cars
in
a
poem
to
his
younger
brother,
Tomoharu,
and
watches
ice
melt
on
the
Mitane
River
with
spring's
turn.
Tomokawa's
sound
is,
as
Kiichi
Takahara
would
later
dub
it,
"I-music":
revelatory
and
deeply
intimate
songs
that
turn
to
the
everyday
and
the
interior.
They
are
portraits
of
a
man
in
search
of
meaning,
who
is
taking
stubborn
control
of
his
life
by
doing
so.
As
he
croons
in
"The
Spring
Is
Here
Again
Song,"
"I'll
drink
till
I've
had
my
fill
/
And
fall
in
love
until
I
die."
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