Thursday, November 24, 2011

村岡実 『恐山』 Minoru Muraoka "Osorezan"(1970,Japanese jazz rock)

original edition
Minoru Muraoka was born in 1923,and began to studying shakuhachi  (=Japanese bammboo flute) officially in 1939.Later in 1959,he started to mix shakuhachi music with popular music.By playing with  Herbie Mann,a famous jazz flute plaer,in 1967,Minoru playing shakuhachi was known to  a lot of jazz fans.

This album "Osorezan" is a live recording.
The concert was held on April 7th ,1970 .
It had two parts.
First part was named "Soul shakuhachi" and tracks they played were American blues songs, Bossa Nova,Japanese traditional songs ,rock music....and so  on.
Second part was named "New Dimension  " and the tracks they played were "Take Five""Come Together""Oiwake""Kawanakajima""Ma""Kobushi" and so on.
And the last track they played was an epic "Osorezan".
In this album,"Osorezan"was the first track,but actually,was the last track at the concert.

second edition

In mid 70s,this album was released as the second edition with the different cover  .but one track called "Take Five"was deleted from the album.I don't know the reason.

For more information ,there are scans in the file.
I hope it will be released as the perfect live CD some day.
Some of Minoru Muraoka's albums are very interesting to prog fans ,however , most of them are too difficult to get for us......
You know them at these sites.
http://hccweb6.bai.ne.jp/~hfc81001/html/muraoka/muraoka.html
http://blog.livedoor.jp/imq/tag/Shakuhachi




Side A
1.恐山 Osorezan (15:58)....Takashi Ikeda
2.Take Five (5:50).... The Dave Brubeck Quartet
3.追分 Oiwake (6:54)....Japanese trad.

Side B
1.褐色のブルース Blues de Memphis (7:00).....theme music from the French cinema
2.Bamboo Rock (10:05)...Japanese trad
3.間 Ma (6:47)...Japanese trad

Osorezan (Tr-1)


ripped from original LP (usung both 1st edition and 2nd edition).
Equipments I used are....
turntable....DENON DP-47F
CD recorder....Pioneer PDR-D5
phono equalizer...ONKYO PE-155
stereo graphic qualizer....Technics SH-8075
sazanami......scratch noise remover(PC software)
sound engine .....PC software to change the sound quality of WAVE files.

31 comments:

Mit said...
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K.L.I.R. said...

Thank you very much for sharing these very hard to find Japanese recordings that many of us in the Western world never heard of or could have hoped to find some day. You are a true master!

K.L.I.R. said...

It seems like atleast 1 part is missing from the wav-files Master !!! When unpacking it says to include part 6 but there is only 5 at the moment.

Mit said...

Hi,K.L.I.R.
Thank you very much for telling me my mistake.
DL once again and enjoy this Japanese gem with high sound quality!!!!!

WAV(including scan)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZZZG0WLW
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F6595VPA
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AM6OCH9K
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3CIU97K2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U7OQNL7Q
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B2KFC976

mp3(including scan)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=598A69DX

K.L.I.R. said...

Thank you for the rapid fix of the missing link Shige 8)

Mit said...

Hi,K.L.I.R.
Enjoy the music.
Next my rip will be Gideon "eight reasons why"(1981,Canada).
Wait !!!!!

isabelbc said...

hi Shige,
Minoru Muraoka is great! lovely flute...
thank you very much my dear friend!
Isabel :o)

isabelbc said...

sending "Bamboo Rock" to Youtube, with your permission :D

Mit said...

Hi,Isabel.
Thank you very much for UL to Youtube.
I'm afraid that Minoru Muraoka's rare LPs' price will get higher and higher....of course,joking.^^)

K.L.I.R. said...

Canadain Gideon sounds very great Master Shige, i will look forward to this next upload from you. Thank you in advance.

Mit said...

Hi,K.L.I.R.
About Gideon's rip,the remixed version will be more excellent result than the original rip,I believe....Wait !!!!!

Anonymous said...

thanks so much for this.i am having problem with pt 4 of the wavs.any one else?

[(Sub)] said...

A very great LP
Thanks a lot

Anonymous said...

Hello!

It looks like Megaupload has been taken down. As terrible as that is, in the meantime would anyone be able to put this on Rapidshare?

Anonymous said...

It looks like Megaupload has been taken down. As terrible as that is, in the meantime would anyone be able NOT to put this on Rapidshare?

Do torrents!

Anonymous said...

Does anyone have these anymore? I'm interested in the entire CD but can only find a track or two.

isabelbc said...

new link http://netkups.com/?d=e5ac24986e1f5

Anonymous said...

Thank you VERY much for the quick response!

Anonymous said...

Take Five may have been removed from the re-release because of Copyright reasons (originally a Dave Brubeck number).

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0VTc9tO43k&feature=related

mentions a number of other songs. Is there are particular reason those are not included in the netkups link?

Anonymous said...

Wow what a gem ! Could you re-up the wav version? Would be really appreciate !

Thanks a lot for your freakydeaky blog, full of mysteries :)

Rob

Alex said...

Does anybody have a link for "Bamboo" album (1970)?

Anonymous said...

Dear Shige,
would it be possible to reup this?

Aldus

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Dear Shige,
would it be possible to reup this in wave?

Aldus

Unknown said...

Does anybody have a link for "Bamboo" album (1970)? [2]

isabelbc said...

link http://netkups.com/?d=e5ac24986e1f5 above works well

Unknown said...

@isabelbc that's the link for Osorezan. We're after this album - http://i47.tinypic.com/2dayaet.jpg

isabelbc said...

opsss @grief i'm sorry... i was thinking in Bamboo song from this album... i haven't this album... looking for too...

Unknown said...
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Anonymous said...

If somebody knows a way to get this album it would be great... :)

Unknown said...

http://goo.gl/Kv9mDc

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