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Japanese singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shintaro Sakamoto returns with a new full-length, Let’s Dance Raw, which Other Music Recording Co. (distributed by Fat Possum) releases on September 16. The album is the follow-up to Sakamoto’s solo debut, the otherworldly folk-pop masterpiece How to Live with a Phantom (2012, Other Music).

While How to Live with a Phantom was the first many around the globe knew of Sakamoto, he has long been an icon in his homeland, having long fronted the psychedelic phenomenon Yura Yura Teikoku, a Tokyo-based band that emerged from Koenji’s legendary UFO Club scene and, across their 20-year trajectory, achieved mainstream success throughout the country. Following the group’s break-up in 2010, Sakamoto began working on How to Live with a Phantom, a bold stylistic departure that eschewed Yura Yura Teikokou’s psychedelic freak-outs for a much quieter and harder-to-define sound.

From first glimpse of the cover of Let’s Dance Raw, it’s clear that once again, we are entering uncharted territory. The record’s sleeve, painted by Sakamoto, features the artist sitting upon a black throne, a steel guitar resting on his knee like a child being protected from the ominous mushroom cloud of smoke billowing behind him. A grinning skull has replaced Sakamoto’s face. This dichotomy of bright, innocent beauty and subtle perversity is the essence of Let’s Dance Raw, with Sakamoto moving even further from the tough underground power-trio psychedelic rock of his former band.

He hinted at the new sound throughout his solo debut, and here the music is blown wide open, with the steel guitar as the unifying force throughout. Sakamoto purchased and learned how to play the instrument just prior to writing and recording Let’s Dance Raw, and it enriches the post-apocalyptic exotica on these ten songs, fusing together the bright and breezy shimmer of Hawaiian slack-key hula melodies, the dusty shuffle of southwestern desert blues, and the space-age bachelor-pad music of postwar suburban dreamers. The result is an album that revisits the soundtracks of musical escapism made popular in postwar American and Japanese cultures—and deftly updates them.

It’s all anchored by deep, jazzy grooves straight out of a 1970s AM radio broadcast, and peppered with flourishes of Brazilian and Latin percussion throughout. Atop the music, Sakamoto sings of the human race’s downfall, the weight of the lyrics made contrastingly perverse via duets with robotic vocoder voices and helium-voiced cartoon chipmunks cooing in an unsettling fashion alongside him. While Sakamoto once again handles the bulk of the instrumental duties, faithful drummer and percussionist Yuta Suganuma also returns for this set, as well as bassist AYA, on loan from fellow Japanese psychedelic explorers OOIOO.

– Mikey IQ Jones –

It seems that DVD & Blu-Ray of the rock opera “Middle Panic in a high school! Small clash!!”, witten and produced by Kankuro Kudo,

in which Shintaro Sakamoto also participated by music composition, have been available in store today (28th August).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZXuPgNDLM

Let’s Dance Raw / Shintaro Sakamoto

SIDE-A

01. Future Lullaby

02. Birth of The Super Cult

03. Extremely Bad Man

04. Let’s Dance Raw

05. Like An Obligation

SIDE-B

06. Gently Disappear

07. You Can Be A Robot, Too

08. Why Can’t I Stop？

09. Never Liked You, But Still Nostalgic

10. This World Should Be More Wonderful

It seems that Sakamoto’s new album “Let’s Dance Raw” will be released from “Other Music Recordings Co.”,

which label launched by NYC record shop Other Music and Fat Possum.

It seems that CD & LP will be available in September 16 US and 15 UK, EU.

http://www.othermusicrecordingco.com/

http://www.thefader.com/2014/07/01/watch-j-rock-visionary-shintaro-sakamotos-trippy-birth-of-the-super-cult/

RECORD STORE DAY 2014 (limited edition)

(*US edition: A: Mayer Hawthorne / AA: Shintaro Sakamoto)

Side AA: In a Phantom Mood / Mayer Hawthorne

Performed & Translated by Mayer Hawthorne

Written & Produced by Shintaro Sakamoto

Recorded & Mixed by Soichiro Nakamura

Recorded at Peace Music, Tokyo, Japan 2011

Guitar, Bass & Keyboard: Shintaro Sakamoto

Drums, Conga & Percussions: Yuta Suganuma

Chorus & Chorus Arrangement: Junko Nogi

Art Work: Shintaro Sakamoto

Mayer Hawthorne appears courtesy of Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

cat no.: zel-011 (zelone edition) / B0020262-21 (UNIVERSAL/Republic edition)

release date: April 19 (sat) 2014

price: ￥1,080 (in tax）