Friday, December 24, 2010

Toshiaki Yokota & Primitive Community - "Primitive Community" {Japan} [1971]

Merhaba dostlar! What we got here is probably Japan's best kept secret. For somedays i was amazing myself listening this album over and over again. Toshiaki Yokota's "Flute Adventure" album is one of my favorite, and i was wondering "Primitive Community" like many others. Since album is private press, 300 copies were made, and since it costs some thousands; we wanted everybody to taste this delicious album. My regards and thanks goes to Toshiaki Yokota himself, to give me a chance to introduce this album to you. A real treasure for the lovers of 70s prog/fusion..

"Born in 1944 in Tokyo. Started his musical carrier at 17 years old. Led his own group 'The Beat Generation' and 'Primitive Community' for 10 years, as well as playing lead flute in Takeshi Inomata's Sound Limited. A pioneer of jazz flute in Japan. Now, He lives in Izu-Inatori and maintains his own studio with beautiful and magnificient sea view. There Yokota creates his original instruments taking nature for a friend. The instruments created by Yokota are mainly fue(Japanese flute or pipe),that is shakuhachi, ceramic flute,YAYOI-BUE and other original instruments of his own ideas. He has been doing several live performances using those instruments."

"Toshiaki Yokota and Genshi Kyodotai is at the meeting place of jazz and rock. That exciting time at the turn of the 1970 decade, long before what is commonly referred to as fusion, when the ambition of free jazz met with rock's exciting psychedelic nature. It wasn't important to display Berklee-trained chops, but rather it was about texture, atmosphere and creativity at its most radical. But fortunately it stops short of free jazz's reckless abandon - that point where it's just noise for the sake of noise. There is meaning to every note, instrument and pattern. As well, we get a peek-through-the-bushes look at a Japanese sacrificial ritual as described by the tribal drumming, Hammond organ shards, wordless monk chanting, Yokota's flute and Mizutani's acid fuzz guitar blazing a wah wah trail all to be one with Kami. And that's before we get to the Hare Krishna chorus. An album like this becomes mythical because it is mystical. It's in the same league of sixth dimensioners like Älgarnas Trädgård's "Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden", Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho's "Paêbirú" or Pierrot Lunaire's "Gudrun". If Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser had heard this band, they would have been signed to the Ohr label on the spot...read more here"

Toshiaki Yokota and Primitive Community
Toshiaki Yokota  (Flute / Indian / Alto&Bass Flute), Shunzou Ohno (Trumpet), Kimio Mizutani  (Elec. Guitar), Kimio Koizumi (Elec. Bass / Acorstic Base), Yuhsuke Hoguchi (Hamond Organ), Larry Sunaga (Percussion), Pedro Umemura (Percussion), Tadaomi Anai (Percussion), Yoshinori Nohmi (Percussion), Fujio Saitoh (Percussion), Minoru Ishiyama (Percussion), Chito Kawachi (Drums)

related links;
http://tutibuefuki.inatori.info/e/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/fuefukijp
http://unencumberedmusicreviews.blogspot.com/2010/12/toshiaki-yokota-beat-generation-flute.html
http://cdreissuewishlist.blogspot.com/2010/12/toshiaki-yokota-and-genshi-kyodotai.html
http://www.amazon.com/Flute-Adventure-Toshiaki-Yokota/dp/B000M5BADO/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214246350&sr=8-10

hAre kRishNA...

our thanks goes to Shige :)

20 comments:

nahavanda said...

http://lix.in/-97c008

Mara Bunta said...

THANKS Bros. That Hare K sounds really smashing so this album promise to be a magic box full of great sounds. ;)
Many thanks to Shige and PNF.

pollux said...

Wow, thanks a lot !

Margot F. said...

Impossible not to pick this one! Thanks a lot.

Margot
http://moonmusick.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

Thank you!

Unknown said...

thanks & cheers..

Patrick said...

Amazing music, thanks for sharing this Toshiaki Yokota.

buzzbabyjesus said...

Thank-you for improving the quality of my life.

Unknown said...

very good thank you

Anonymous said...

http://www.radionomy.com/fr/radio/progressiv-nation

Anonymous said...

It just keeps redirecting to the same page. Can't dl.

isabelbc said...

link download >>> http://lix.in/-97c008 then click "Continue"

Anonymous said...

I get as far as the mirrorpage, but no matter which dl link I click, it just opens the same mirrorpage in a new window/tab.

isabelbc said...

hi Anonymous,

until now 1957 people download this album without problems, i guess
please, try another browser: Chrome, Firefox etc
good luck!

Isabel :)

tymusic said...

thank you this is marvellous stuffff

Radek said...

Incredible! Thank you very much.

adamus67 said...

Wow! This really looks amazing,this is a brand new discovery for me,I can't wait listen to it,this is music for my soul. Many Thanks

smithson1952 said...

love this album incredible thanks

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your effort in posting unknown
records.
DANILO
PS.:Can´t get through with my google account.

Anonymous said...

Marvelous!!!! thank you for sharing :)

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