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Genre: Electronic / Jazz / Rock / Folk, World, & Country Album: Osamu Country: US Released: 1977 Style: New Age, Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Smooth Jazz, Prog Rock MP3 version RAR size: 1874 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1850 mb WMA version RAR size: 1607 mb Rating: 4.3 Votes: 849 Other Formats: AU AIFF MP1 MP3 DMF MP4 VOC

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A1 Sui-In 1:03 A2 Frost Flowers 5:24 A3 Hear The Rain, See It Fall 6:03 A4 Endless Steps 3:52 Yesterday And Karma A5 4:59 Vocals – Minnie Riperton B1 Purple Hills And Crystal Streams 6:11 B2 Elemental Spirits 5:22 B3 Fur, Fin And Feather 7:11 B4 Sui-Yo 1:30

Credits

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Koto, Biwa, Vocals, Arranged By [Co-arragments] – Osamu Kitajima Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Arranged By [Co-arragments] – John Hug Art Direction – Deirdre Morrow Drums, Percussion, Arranged By [Co-arrangements] – Geoffrey Hales Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass, Arranged By [Co-arangements] – Dennis Belfield Electric Guitar, Arranged By [Co-arrangements] – George Marinelli Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Organ [Yamaha], Clavinet, Synthesizer [Arp Odyssey And String Ensemble], Keyboards [Chamerbain], Arranged By [Co-arrangements] – Brian Whitcomb Engineer [Sound] – Larry Hirsch Management – Jack Nelson Mastered By – John Denham Producer – Kinji Yoshino, Osamu Kitajima Shakuhachi, Arranged By [Co-arrangements] – Tatsuya Sano

Notes

While there are distinct tracks on this album the music on each side is continuous.

Recorded and mixed at Paramount Studios L.A., CA., Feb. 3-Mar.28, 1977 Mastered at Randum Recorders, Burbank, CA. April, 1977

Ms. Ripperton appears courtesy of Epic Records

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year Osamu Osamu (LP, ILS-80936 Island Records ILS-80936 Japan 1977 Kitajima Album) Osamu Osamu (LP, ILPS 9426 Island Records ILPS 9426 US 1977 Kitajima Album) Osamu Osamu (CDr, East Quest 1837787 1837787 US 2010 Kitajima Album, RE) Records Island ILPS 9426, Osamu Osamu (LP, ILPS 9426, Records, Canada Unknown ILPS-9426 Kitajima Album) ILPS-9426 Island Records Osamu Osamu (LP, ILS-80936 Island Records ILS-80936 US 1977 Kitajima Album, TP)

Comments about Osamu - Osamu Kitajima

ARE This is the third album by Osamu Kitajima, one of Japan's most prolific artists from the ethno rock, world music and progressive department. You can certainly not divide all the mentioned stylistic aspects from each other for they were all incorporated in a homogenious sound and complex arrangements. It is the same with his other albums like „Benzaiten“ and or his fourth „Masterless Samurai“; traditional Japanese music meets Western jazzrock and progressive sounds to form a new style unheard by most people in Western countries at the time. Osamu Kitajima easily plays with elements of reggae and funk, fusion jazz and colorful pop while staying true to his Japanese roots with bits and pieces of traditional melodies and the use of old Asiatic instruments. The Japanese influence makes this music uniqe and still it gets as close to Western rock and pop sounds as it could. An adventurous journey through the world from East Asia to West Africa and to the steaming metropolises of the UK and USA is your reward when you put this perfectly produced album onto your turntable. The former PINK FLOYD comparison coming with „Benzaiten“ is not totally out of place with this selftitled 1977 album here but there is much more latitude in the allover style. Osamu Kitajima gathers a few well talented musicians around him on this record despite playing and arranging most of the instrumental passages himself. He, the multi instrumentalist who discovered progressive rock music in the early 70s during a stay in London where he released a first album under the monicker „Justin Heathcliff“ before moving to California around the mid 70s. And this group of musicians creates something special that sticks out of the mass of similar art pop and fusion bands in the late 70s. Osamu Kitajima is something like the Japanese answer to Mike Oldfield, and others equal in vision and output! Conjuril This is the best of Osamu's output. The performance by Minnie Riperton ranks as one of the greatest female vocalizations i have heard. she used her FIVE OCTAVE range in its uppermost registers to perfectly portray the effect that Osamu envisioned. truly a masterwork on everybody's parts.the rest of the album is top notch with real stereo recordings of such things as a campfire with bursting embers, a two cycle motorcycle revving its engine over and behind rolling hills and a babbling brook that occupies actual space in a location that you would expect. the Japanese pressing is the best but owning any clean copy should be the goal of any music lover that appreciates the genre that seems to be its own-Japanese Fusion. the instrumentation and expression exhibited here command attention and could cause the initiation of the unique genre that i have given a name. I would hope that Osamu-san would continue this direction that he started with the release of Benziaten and continued through to another disc that i have of his: Epitome. They would all benefit from release on hi-rez, high quality vinyl re-releases utilizing the 45rpm/2 disc method that brings out the vividness and verisimillitude hidden in the master tapes and allowed escape via LP playback. There is a movement going on right now that some audio enthusiasts (with big budgets) are using and that is open reel tape releases in two track, half track, 15 IPS format. this would be a good candidate for this format. ...hifitommy Rleillin this should be played at 45rpm, very mathy sounding

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