makoto's listening room #16

i explain the titles a little that i chose for Makoto's Listining Room in this week.

-Choeur Occitan Rosamonda/Se Canta...vol.1 [Gallo]

this group was directed by Gerard Zuchetto who leads Troubadours Art Ensemble too. i'm not sure Troubadours Art Ensemble is good or not...i have their 3 records...but i feel too much conception from their album...i cannot feel so much good spirits like the same atomosphere of Thomas Binkley... but this album is better than Troubadours Art Ensemble for me. especially they play many my favorite Occitan songs by acapella. Troubadours Art Ensemble has been many country. so maybe you can find their cds not so difficult. if you're interested in Occitan music and Troubadours, you can check it up. anyhow TAE's cds are good for the beginning to know what Occitan Music is. also if you can get Rosina de Peira's acapella album "Nadal Encara", you should compare it with this album. so you can know how great Rosina de Peira is.

-V.A./Tetsugohshi-Aika [CTA]

these songs are from Japanese jail. all song is imitated from famous ENKA (Japanese old fashioned popular music). i love this kind atomosphere... much the same with Delta Blues. although of course the sounds are very different... i can guess Mikami Kan had many influence from this kind of music. i can say this is the real Japanese Blues!

-The Beach Boys/The Beach Boys Today! [Capitol]

i love Beach Boys very very much! especially their "Crazy" chorus"!!! when i was a teenager, i loved Frank Zappa so much...then i loved their strange chorus too. but when i could find Beach Boys' crazy mind, i prefered it to Zappa. also their mix is very strange...why the sounds become sometime small sometime loud in the song??? they imagined like Wave??? i don' prefer so much late 60's Beach Boys sounds as "Psychedelic Rock". i love only early Beach Boys! they were the oldest and the greatest Psychedelic band for me! maybe their brain were melted down by too much sunshine???