Some nice surprises at the library book sale the other day. They must have been pruning their music section -- I came away with a nice stack of music education and electronic music books from the 70s. I also found this mysterious Japanese children's book with blue flexi-discs. The only characters I can make out are 'Kodama,' which I think is the name of the press. I love the little tabs attaching the flexi-disc to the book. Good system.
I didn't expect a song as sad as that.
ReplyDeleteAttaching-wise, this must be the holy grail of flexidiscism.
Amazing! You are lucky!
ReplyDeleteOh man what a find! The person responsible for the illustrations is Rokuro Taniuchi (often shortened to Roku): http://50watts.com/filter/rokuro
ReplyDeleteI love this guy. I'm going to have to feature these scans on 50 Watts too.
Hello dispo and mio-mio!
ReplyDeleteWill, thanks for the info. I was wondering who "roku" is. Those scans on your blog are amazing. Are they all from one book? You're totally welcome to repost.
A beautiful song, Ben - just the kind of thing I wanted whilst finishing off my coffee this morning, thank you.
ReplyDeleteInteresting though, isn't it - it's clearly Japanese, but the melody phrasing has a touch of the Eastern European about it; to my ears anyway.
- Jb.
Yeah, it sounds a little like Malá Morská Víla. The kids chorus reminds me of this
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they mostly come from a nice collection of his work edited by Tadanori Yokoo - that's out of print but turns up occasionally - a few collections were published in Japan in the last couple years but they seem to go oop quickly - definitely worth looking for any or all
ReplyDeleteI have heard this melody somewhere before. It is the theme for the character Piston Honda in the video game Punch Out for the NES. http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Mike_Tyson%27s_Punch-Out!!_(NES) I agree with Jon, it does not sound authentically Asian, more like Asian flavor for westerners, sort of like "Oriental Riff" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_riff
ReplyDeleteHa, that's awesome. It does seem like the same song!
ReplyDeletethis is so beautiful. domo arigato
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