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Ishikawa, Japan (1970 – 2010)

Maki Asakawa, born in 1942 in Ishikawa, Japan, was a female and singer, lyricist and composer. She sang at US Army bases in Japan before getting her big break in a series of concerts. Maki’s first album was recorded and released in September 1970. It came into being after an alliance with enfant terrible of the Japanese avant-garde Terayama Shuji (of Tenjosajiki fame).

Maki’s black clad and sugarless, petroleum dark coffee voice gets set against a folk-avant-jazz and psych backing. Between the tracks of each song, the listener gets treated to some filed recording like musique concrete insertions, that augment the overall atmospheric quality of this late night alcohol and nicotine stained recording. Stunningly fantastic female vocals and utterly rare.

Becoming popular in the 1970s, she made more than 30 releases by the end of the 1990s, after which she was mostly known for performing live. She collaborated with musicians such as Yosuke Yamashita and Ryuichi Sakamoto. In addition to writing and composing, she also released cover versions of US traditional folk and blues, translated to Japanese, such as “Asahi ni ataru Ie” (“The house of the Rising Sun”).

She continued performing live until the time of her death.
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