Been obsessed with Japanese music lately. In another life I'm sure I was a kabuki singer. I've always loved that style. One thing I've learned is that "timing" in Japanese music is done not by counts, but by breathing. That's why is sounds out of time by people who are not familiar with it. Think I'm going to dig pretty deep into Enka, a rather melodramatic form of popular music from the 1950s through the 1970s. Examples! OK back to studying
Takashi Hosokawa
Meiko Kaji
