{"product_id":"kan-mikami-im-the-only-one-around","title":"Kan Mikami - I'm The Only One Around","description":"Genre: Folk\/Blues\/Japanese\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: LP \u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BE00713\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eB\/C: 881626565568 \u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 24th May 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1st ever LP issue.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHoused in Gold foil stamped Old Style Tip-On Jackets.Non-Returnable.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNewly Translated lyrics.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMikami’s debut for P.S.F Records.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncludes DL card.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor 50 years, Kan Mikami has stood as a master of the Japanese blues and outsider folk. His unmistakable, powerfully evocative voice and surrealistic poetry reveal a gritty, transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocations of sex and violence, religion and romance. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased in 1991, I’m the Only One Around was Mikami’s first album with Tokyo’s legendary P.S.F. label and heralded an artistic renaissance. It marked the beginning of an incredibly productive and wildly creative era for Mikami that extends to the present day. This opening salvo presents the essential core of Mikami’s music; With nothing but his voice and a stripped-down electric guitar, the album is a powerful, effortlessly emotional statement filled with moments of both brutal passion and gentle revelation. It is unrestrained, direct, brutally honest. It embodies Mikami’s philosophy: “If you’re going to make music, stake your life on it – it’s worth it. Making music is an intensely human act.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the newly translated notes to the album, Hiroyuki Itsuki, one of Japan’s most renowned writers perhaps put it best: “What erupts here is all the fury and grief of Jōmon Man (the prehistoric people of the Japanese archipelago), lobbed into the middle of a 1990s city. Kan Mikami is unchanging, yet definitely in motion. He advances not forwards, but backward. Not a retreat, rather he consciously progresses backward. At the final destination for his full-steam astern poésie lies a massive, gaping black hole, exuding a dazzling, black light. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the image evoked by the world of Kan Mikami that you can hear on this album.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMikami would go on to release 15 solo albums with P.S.F. as well as numerous collaborative efforts with other giants of the Japanese underground including Motoharu Yoshizawa, Masayoshi Urabe and Keiji Haino, with whom, along with Toshiaki Ishizuka he formed the group Vajra.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklist:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm The Only One Around, Black Point Hirano, Shinanomachi Sisters, Emporer of the Half Globe, Up the Chimney, Cow and Long Hair, A Kerosene Stove For Two, Dance, Flower Hat!, In Front of Hachiko, Movie Number 69\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39984842440860,"sku":"BE00713","price":27.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/BE00713_265ea723-64f2-4396-931a-5f7f542ae249.jpg?v=1621892332","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/kan-mikami-im-the-only-one-around","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}