Ike Reiko
Kokutsu
Cat.No: BAMCD7005
Label: Bamboo

¿Reissue of legendary ¿70s Japanese ¿Pink Violence¿ album
¿digitally remastered
¿LP replica card wallet

¿an unprecedented maelstrom of eroticism and sexual depravity. Ike's vocals breathe with an astonishing naturalness, dripping honeyed and golden-tongued into the ears with angelic ease¿ mutant sounds

Track Listing

1.Women Cannot Endure It
2.You Can Be The Twilight
3.Giddiness
4.After The Rain Stops
5.Wandering Guitar
6.I Am A Woman
7.Rainy Day Blues
8.Love Slave
9.Experience
10. Not An Angel
11. Bond Of Love

Although Ike Reiko was a mere 17 years of age when she recorded Kokotsu no Sekai, she was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Despite the tough-gal image, the music is pretty darn life-affirming, so don't think for a second you're getting an easy listening album here - this is about as sexual as music can get. Throw 'French Kiss' out of the window and kiss goodbye to your Serge Gainsbourg records goodbye, Ike Reiko is more sizzling than a branding iron as it makes it's mark on the farmer's herd. The sex is literally dripping from every note on this record - I'm told that the style is 'Iroke Kayôkyoku' or erotic kayôkyoku (kayôkyoku being a style of Japanese pop) but the sort of naïve jazz and pseudo spy theme movie music is all draped in a shroud of sexual shouts, screams and coos from the clearly excited Reiko. One must assume that she was in some kind of state of euphoria in the recording studio from the evidence on offer here, either that or she's a pretty realistic faker - it's a smouldering collision and that's about all that needs to be said. 'Kôkotsu no Sekai' has to be one of the finest gifts for the music fan in search of that killer oddity