V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LP Funeral Doom including drumless versions of his

including drumless versions of his disco classics “Let’s Go Swimming

which would be highlights on anyone’s LP

“To get that sense of place and time

he’d come of age during the west coast jazz explosion of the 1950s

Úlfarsson gave Bertoni a carte blanche for how to handle the instrument

V/A - Longing For The Shadow: Ryūkōka Recordings, 1921-1939 LP Funeral Doom including drumless versions of hisEmerging during the early stages of the recording industry in Japan, the rykka style adopted western classical, blues & jazz elements into traditional and classical Japanese music. This collection of 1920s & 30s rykka recordings follows on from the Kouta Katsutaro tape we put out a couple of years back, and further captures the hauntingly unique sound of a cultural merging that was starting to reflect itself via popular song, ahead of the widespread