Sunday, October 22, 2023

Shoji Aketagawa - Tabi (旅) (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQG3N0ABlgI

Tabi is an extremely unusual album for Aketagawa, consisting of four hour-long discs. I'm not sure why the decision was made to release these as a set, they work great as separate albums, but not so well together. Nevertheless, I believe these recordings are exclusive to this release (many Aketa releases are like this), and they haven't been reissued since. Of course, this means the original album is stupidly rare. I was very thankful that someone uploaded these as lossless files to a certain music sharing website about a year ago. Due to the rarity of this set, I have uploaded it here in its entirety for the world to enjoy once again. Disc 1 - fukushima take passe'temps/aketagawa shoji solo 0:00 sangaibushi 3:35 take passe'temps 19:02 toyosawa lake 25:44 alone together 35:03 el humahuaqueño 44:04 strange wood blues 49:19 ocarina medley (孝の鹿、常動曲、アイ・リメンバー ・タカシ、若き蒙古、シメロンの灯、 初夢、南部牛追唄) Disc 2 - at the kyorin/aketagawa shoji session 1:01:08 at the kyorin 1:17:41 now's the time 1:29:03 hernia blues 1:32:20 babel 1:44:25 nanbu ushioiuta Disc 3 - hanamaki osawa onsen/aketagawa shoji yoshino hiroshi duo 1:56:49 heart jump osawa 2:13:41 oi go omaenaa 2:29:39 aketa's blues 2:40:29 poem in lovely Disc 4 - i lived with hiroshi itaya/aketagawa shoji & aketa nishiogi sentimental philharmony orchestra 2:56:27 airegin rhapsody 3:17:12 african dream 3:44:03 nanbuushioiuta〜oyo hyakusawa

now, this one, is for the traveller, which explains why aketa wanted it to last for 4 hours.