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Six​-​O​-​Seven Blues

by Ryo Takematsu 武末亮

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あのノアルイズ・マーロン・タイツの天才(変態)ギタリスト、武末亮が構想10年、満を持して発表する1stソロ・アルバム。

ジョン・フェイとバックワーズ・サム・ファークが憑依したかのような演奏、デジタル・ジャングルを徘徊するサイバーカウボーイによる全6曲 + 神田朋樹氏(CRUE-L Records)の最高リミックス収録! 100年前の戦前カントリーブルースの体裁をした2010s現在形TOKYO音楽最先端。長年自分を見失わなかった素晴らしさ。

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released April 10, 2018

"If there exists something called Young Weird Tokyo, Ryo Takematsu is living at the heart of it." (Clive Bell, The Wire)

Tokyo's Ryo Takematsu proves the universality and timelessness of the blues on his debut solo release Six-O-Seven Blues. Recorded mainly in a Japanese bedroom, Takematsu's heartfelt and sincere acoustic guitar playing filters his love of pre-war American country blues through the more relatively recent influences of John Fahey and Backwards Sam Firk; the seven pieces here, on three 7" records, slingshot these influences through space and time, from America in a previous century to 21st-century Japan and on to the wider world. Bookended by opening and closing collaborative tracks, Takematsu, one of the founding members of EM Records stalwarts Noahlewis' Mahlon Taits, rides solo for the bulk of the tracks, sounding relaxed and focused. The opening title track, by Takematsu, features some guest percussion from his bandmates, and the final track is a remix, by Tomoki Kanda, of John Fahey's "On Doing An Evil Deed Blues". Two more tracks by Fahey appear, plus songs by Skip James and William Moore.

Cover art by moOog yamamOTO (Buffalo Daughter)

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