{"id":639422,"date":"2024-09-24T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-japanese-folk-legend-rides-again\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:09:28","slug":"a-japanese-folk-legend-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-japanese-folk-legend-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Japanese folk legend rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a232970914c7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-japanese-folk-legend-rides-again\/#Based_in_California_for_the_past_50_years_Japanese_singer-songwriter_Sachiko_Kanenobu_will_perform_four_rare_northeast_shows_following_a_vinyl_reissue_of_her_1999_album_Fork_in_the_Road\" >Based in California for the past 50 years, Japanese singer-songwriter Sachiko Kanenobu will perform four rare northeast shows following a vinyl reissue of her 1999 album Fork in the Road.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Based_in_California_for_the_past_50_years_Japanese_singer-songwriter_Sachiko_Kanenobu_will_perform_four_rare_northeast_shows_following_a_vinyl_reissue_of_her_1999_album_Fork_in_the_Road\"><\/span>Based in California for the past 50 years, Japanese singer-songwriter Sachiko Kanenobu will perform four rare northeast shows following a vinyl reissue of her 1999 album <i>Fork in the Road<\/i>.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div 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1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/a0217507361_10_bugd4d\/i-fork-in-the-road-i-album-cover-a-target-_new-href-https-sachikokanenobu-bandcamp-com-album-fork-in-the-road-lp-via-bandcamp-a.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"A Japanese folk legend rides again\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      <i>Fork in the Road<\/i> album cover <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sachikokanenobu.bandcamp.com\/album\/fork-in-the-road-lp\">via Bandcamp<\/a>.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264372\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>Discover Blogly is The FADER\u2019s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264373\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">By the time<\/span> Japan\u2019s Underground Record Club released Sachiko Kanenobu\u2019s debut album <i>Misora<\/i> in 1972, the Osaka-born singer-songwriter was already gone. Decamping to Northern California with her then-fianc\u00e9, the American music journalist and <i>Crawdaddy!<\/i> magazine creator Paul Williams, she effectively retired from music for a decade to focus on raising their two children. Unpromoted, the album quickly fell into obscurity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            The act of leaving <i>Misora<\/i> behind before its proper release was like abandoning a child, Kanenobu told KQED in 2019, months after Light in the Attic gave the album its first official U.S. release. It had been a battle to record the project in the first place: The overwhelmingly male staff of URC, one of Japan\u2019s first independent labels, were skeptical of Kanenobu\u2019s ability to sell records as a solo artist and only agreed to back <i>Misora<\/i> once Haruomi Hosono, a future founding member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, signed on as its producer. 50 years later, the album counts Jim O\u2019Rourke, Steve Gunn, Wim Wenders, Devendra Banhart, Parquet Courts, and Yo La Tengo among its acolytes.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264374\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3FnRt5aR3UNby43dumedN9?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/%E3%81%BF%E7%A9%BA\/1674482553\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264375\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Listening back to <i>Misora<\/i> in 2024, the album\u2019s genius is undeniable. Its opener and title track, a halting acoustic ballad, im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely evokes the early work of Joni Mitchell. But there\u2019s a strange, deeply forlorn quality to her delivery that\u2019s more akin to the wilder, more instinctual music Sybille Baier was making at home in rural Germany around the same time, for no one but herself and her family. And \u201cAoi Sakana,\u201d a mid-album cut that\u2019s found a global fan base after featuring in Wenders\u2019s 2023 film <i>Perfect Days<\/i>, rings with the jaunty country-rock confidence of Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Kanenobu returned to music as the \u201970s rolled into the \u201980s, partly due to encouragement from Philip K. Dick, whom she\u2019d befriended through her husband. Dick planned to fund <i>Misora<\/i>\u2019s follow-up, but the project evaporated when he died suddenly in early 1982. Kanenobu and Williams divorced the same year.<\/p>\n<p>            Later in the \u201980s, Kanenobu went on to lead a rock band called Culture Shock, recording with the group through the early \u201990s. She continued to release her own music sporadically in the ensuing years while working with California\u2019s In-Home Support Services as a caretaker for clients with disorders such as dementia, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis. According to her KQED interview, she retired from that position on the day of <i>Misora<\/i>\u2019s American release.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264376\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3fF8wY0vEgGaoxY26jsRlr?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>            <iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *;\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"450\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/%E3%81%BF%E7%A9%BA\/1674482553\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264377\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            Last October, Temporal Drift released a rerecording of a 1999 Sachiko Kanenobu album titled <i>Fork in the Road<\/i>. Produced by Makoto Kubota \u2014 a member of Les Rallizes Denudes who has been working to rerelease the legendary Kyoto noise-rock outfit\u2019s long-bootlegged albums in studio quality for the past few years \u2014 the reimagined record also features Gunn, Carwyn Ellis, and members of the recently dissolved Tokyo psych-rock group Kikagaku Moyo.<\/p>\n<p>            <i>Fork in the Road<\/i> is a lovely collection of songs, including feats of songwriting like the ingeniously eerie \u201cStrange Melody\u201d and the quietly anthemic \u201cTake Me to the Ocean,\u201d and surprising acts of rogue production like the bluesy slide guitar on \u201cI Saw the Sunset\u201d and the shimmering sitar that pops up throughout the album. Vibrant and stylistically diverse, it\u2019s both a celebration of Kanenobu\u2019s career and a demonstration of her continued vitality and varied taste at 76. <\/p>\n<p>            The album concludes with a 1970 demo of \u201cMisora,\u201d overdubbed and electrified in 1984. Over insistent, repetitive hand-struck percussion and chintzy yet majestic synths, Kanenobu\u2019s voice glows joyfully from the past, pulled from obscurity into the here and now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-264378\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>A vinyl reissue of <\/i>Fork in the Road<i> arrived via Temporal Drift last month. Sahicko Kanenobu will play four northeast shows \u2014 her first since 2019 \u2014 starting October 5 at Johnny Brenda\u2019s in Philadelphia.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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