Kosuke Ichihara and 3L / Now Sound '75 Departure from Japanese Folk Songs (LP)

A floating synthesizer, a mysteriously echoing guitar, and a phantasmagoric saxophone/flute. The extreme north of folk song jazz rock led by a sound that combines madness and elegance. There are many jazz-rock works on the theme of folk songs, but this work "Now Sound '75 / De-Japanese Minyo" is one of the far north songs that has gained cult popularity. Tight grooves, floating synthesizers, mysteriously reverberating guitars, and ever-changing sax/flute. Deep, psychedelic and elegant. There is even madness in the sound. Aiming to "exclude" Japanese folk songs, what appeared was a one-of-a-kind music world with an overwhelming degree of perfection, albeit a strange one. Kosuke Ichihara, a saxophonist/flatist from New Hard, worked on this album. This work is also the final work of the legendary group Love Live Life, led by Ichihara and widely supported by psychedelic-rock-jazz-rock.



A1. Okesa Sado/Folk Song of Niigata Prefecture
A2. Yasugi-bushi/Shimane folk song
A3. Kisobushi/Nagano folk song
A4. Esashi Oiwake/Hokkaido folk song
A5. Yosakoi Bushi/Folk Song of Kochi Prefecture
A6. Sansa Shigure / Miyagi Prefecture Folk Song
B1. Hienobushi / Miyazaki Prefecture Folk Song
B2. Tsugaru Mountain Song/Aomori Folk Song
B3. Nambu Ushioi Uta/Folk Song of Iwate Prefecture
B4. Tancha Mae Bushi/Okinawa Prefecture Folk Song
B5. Kuroda Bushi/Fukuoka Folk Song
B6. New Soma Bushi/Fukushima Folk Song