Takuro Okada - KonomaFormat : LP Label : Temporal Drift ISC Hi Fi Selects Catalog # : DRFT21 ISCHF 006 Genre : Jazz For years, Takuro Okada has carried a quiet question: how can a Japanese musician honor the music of African Americans without simply borrowing it? That search shapes his new album Konoma, a work guided by the idea of Afro Mingei. The Tokyo guitarist, producer, and bandleader has lived inside this tension since childhood, drawn to blues, jazz, and funk

The album’s most recognisable track

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury

Mutable Clouds

to Italo-disco contaminated by dub up to the true Neapolitan style which

remastered and occasionally redubbed by Japanese music connoisseur Sten Saluveer aka MILDHANS

2 unites a selection of tracks that encapsulates the atmosphere

Only vinyl Silkscreen cover

Neapolitan synthesizers coexist with digital cumbias

easygoing rhythm of life in New Zealand

native of Brussels and expatriate in Paris

Having already captivated local audiences with their hypnotic

radiates with the unmistakable LA glow