PAUL ADOLPHUS-The Dawn Wind-mellow folk JAPAN 1973-CD

PAUL ADOLPHUS -

The Dawn Wind,

JAPAN 1973

(SHADOKS 76)
NEW CD

jewelcase with 8 page booklet
The Australian artist Paul Adolphus recorded the album in Kyoto/Japan.
My first visit to Japan was in 1968 after living in India and Sri Lanka. My wife at the time arrived in Kyoto, and had our first child there. We really loved it. We returned to Sweden then went back to Kyoto and had our second child there. We lived in a two hundred year old farm house in a village outside Kyoto.

It was a great scene at the time. Japanese artists, bohemians, and visiting foreigners making art music poetry etc. I was  playing music with different people, then developed a musical relationship with Mitsu Harada. We did concerts and toured to other cities in japan together. Before leaving Japan Mitsu organised to record the album together. Mitsu¿s father was the grand master of a calligraphy school. In a large room in the school Mitsu set up mikes and a big stereo recorder consul. Most of the playing was by Mitsu and myself, an American friend played a little guitar and percussion to fill some holes.

A group of friends sat around, so it was a bit of a living room concert feel. It was my material, Mitsu engineered as well as playing. I think there were 200 copies pressed, the covers were hand made, so it was released into the small arts community of Kyoto and Tokyo. Not long after  the recording I travelled with the family to Australia, I had been away from here for a decade. I worked on a lot of projects here, composing for theatre and dance. I had a group called Living Music- an African drummer, Indian tabla, didjeridoo, winds etc. It was earlydays, not too many people were ready for world music.
Incredible rare and sought after mellow folk album with beautiful songs and harmonies, like a Japanese version of EXTRADITION.

Paul Adolphus ‎– The Dawn Wind
Label:
Shadoks Music ‎– 076
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue
Country:
Germany
Released:
2007
Genre:
Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Folk, Psychedelic, Experimental
Tracklist
1     A Day Is Born     6:06
2     Good Morning     4:02
3     She Might Love Me     2:55
4     Butterfly     2:03
5     It's Raining     2:49
6     The New Year     7:47
7     Looking At The World     2:53
8     Golden Shore     4:28
9     Evening Wind     3:30
10     Forest Lore     2:44
11     Zandala     5:06
12     At Day's End     3:25
13     Untitled     1:57
Credits

    Composed By [All Tracks Composed By], Vocals, Guitar, Flute [Flutes], Shakuhachi – Paul Adolphus
    Piano, Organ, Koto, Engineer [Engineering], Producer [Production] – Mitsu Harada*

Notes
© 1973 Himico Records, Kyoto, Japan

Comes with an 8 page booklet in a clear tray jewel case.

Track durations do not appear on the release.

Track 13 is not included in the tracklist.
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Barcode: 801670007623

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