ARTIST : V.A.
TITLE : SOUND STORING MACHINES: THE FIRST 78RPM RECORDS FROM JAPAN, 1903-1912
LABEL : SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
FORMAT : LP
日本で録音された最初期のSP音源が SUBLIME FREQUENCIES の手により復刻。ロシア・中国との戦争、第二次世界大戦、近代化、西洋のメディアの猛攻撃。そんな激動の時代を潜り抜けたレコードの中から厳選されたトラックを収録。内容は雅楽、尺八、三味線、読み聞かせ、民謡など様々で、極めて簡素なものから複雑な構造を持つもの、なじみ深いものから未知のように感じられるものまで、世界に門戸を開き始めたばかりの当時の日本を実に鮮明に記録しています。
A1 Suenaga Togi and gagaku musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra - Bairo (recorded 1903)
A2 Toyosawa Heikichi - Senryou Nobori (recorded in 1904)
A3 Azumaya Kamanosuke - Chikumagawa (recorded in 1906)
A4 Sumako of Shinbashi - Kappore (recorded c. 1903)
A5 unknown artists - Hokai-bushi Oiwake-bushi (recorded in 1903)
A6 Uehara Sakima, Takahashi Kiyokusa, Fukushira Kado - Matsukaze [Wind in the Pines] (recorded in 1903)
A7 Yanagiya Kosan - Rakugo: Ukiy-buro [Scene in a Public Bath] (recorded 1903)
A8 Suenaga Togi and gagaku musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra - Taishikichou (recorded in 1903)
B1 Mimasuya Kachiguri - Shiokumi Kasatsukashi [Collecting Water] (recorded 1906)
B2 Umewaka Manzaburo, Umewaka Rokurou of the Kanze Noh school - Yokyoku [from the noh drama Kakitsubata] (recorded c. 1907)
B3 Nokiken Hanadou - Sanjusangen-do Kiyori (recorded in 1906)
B4 Shimeju of Yoshiwara - Neko Ja [cat dance] (recorded c. 1904)
B5 Takemoto Sumitayu, Toyozawa Danpei and Toyozawa Sennosuke - Horikawa Sarumawashi [The Monkey Trainer] (recorded c. 1909)
B6 Takemoto Haruko Tayu, Toyozawa Shinzaemon - Sakaya no dan [from Sankatsu Hanchichi-The Double Suicide, or The Love Suicides] (recorded c. 1910)
B7 Toyozawa Shinzaemon, Inoue Satokishi - Joruri Taiko-ki Ju Danme (recorded c. 1912)
