Kifu Mitsuhashi & Kiyoshi Yamaya

• JAPAN IMPORT

• COVER WITH OBI edition

This work was the beginning of a folk song crossover series created in the 1970s by Nobuo Hara and composer/arranger Kiyoshi Yamaya from the Sharps & Flats, and was performed by Takikaze Mitsuhashi, one of Japan's leading shakuhachi players. Debut album. One of the triptych of ``Shakuhachi Mountain Poetry'' and ``Shakuhachi Village Poetry''.

PERSONNEL:

• Kifu Mitsuhashi - (shakuhachi)
• Isao Kanayama - (vibes)
• Hiromu Hisatomi - (piano)
• Kiyoshi Sugimoto - (guitar)
• Kimio Koizumi - (bass)
• Kazuyoshi Okayama - (drums)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Esashi Oiwake
• A2. Oshima Bushi
• A3. Sado Okesa
• A4. Soran Bushi
• A5. Isohama Bon Uta
• A6. Kaigara Bushi

• SIDE B
• B1. Kushimoto Bushi
• B2. Iso Bushi
• B3. Saitaro Bushi
• B4. Konpira Fune Fune
• B5. Tosa No Sunayama
• B6. Tanchame