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Miyazawa
Deeper Than Oceans
$17.99
Kazufumi Miyazawa is the founder of the popular Japanese/Okinawan band Boom, known for their fusion of local folk with rock and pop sounds in the 1980s. This is Miyazawa’s 5th solo recording since leaving the band. He blends funk, folk and jazz from Africa, Brazil, and of course, Japan and Okinawa. There are touches of traditional instruments and melodies from Okinawa, but they are only a small part of a much larger global attitude.
Caveat: this is an interesting recording, but it is also one that I only offer with a warning: it can get a bit schmaltzy for my taste, purveying some pretty slick, sweet Brazilian attitude, the kind of stuff that I'll let someone like Caetano Veloso get away with because hsi voice is just so fantastic. Miyazawa is a fine singer, but he's no Veloso, and some of the tracks here fall far short of the best of the bunch.
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