Various Artists - (2021) Is It Really Goodbye? More Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929-1938

 

Death Is Not The End – DEATH050

A further volume of Ryūkōka 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 Ryūkōka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music.

Is It Really Goodbye? further collects pre-war Ryūkōka 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.

Tracklist

1. Fumiko Yotsuya – Let's Dance the Tango (03:07)

2. Kiyoshi Utsumi & Asami Kuji – A Wandering Journey (03:23)

3. Kusunoki Shigeo – White Camellia Song (03:20)

4. Michiyakko – Oh, That's It (02:52)

5. Nakano Rhythm Boys – Kazuhisa Yamadera (03:14)

6. Noriko Awaya – Blues for Farewell (03:27)

7. Kouta Katsutaro – Kanaka's Daughter (03:13)

8. Sato Chiyako – Tokyo March (02:37)

9. Wantanabe Hamako – I'll Forget It (03:13)

10. Dick Mine – Yukari's Song (03:21)

11. Fujiyama Ichiro – Recollection (03:37)

12. Kouta Katsutaro & Shigeo Kusunoki – Tairiku Bushi (03:18)

13. Issei Mishima – Over the Kuroshio (03:07)

14. Fumiko Yotsuya – The Izu Dancer (Dancer's Song) (03:03)

15. Hanko Kagurazaka & Toshiro Oumi – Hatsukoi Nikki (03:04)

16. Akasaka Koume – Is It Really Goodbye? (03:20)

Total length: 51:16