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In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualismforging a sound and sensibility marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps ever more inward, as Kiichi Takahara writes in the records original introductory textembracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an attitude of total self-containment.
Tomokawa recorded the album over the course of a monthfrom August 24 to September 25, 1977at Tokyos famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up: paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawas screaming philosopher vocals find their match with the orchestras electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Polices Toshi Ishizukawho appears on Tomokawas first three records and remains his collaborator to this day.
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