MKWAJU ENSEMBLE Mkwaju LP/1981 Japan/Midori Takada/Avant-garde Percussion/NEW

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MKWAJU ENSEMBLE 'Mkwaju' LP (Switzerland, /We Release Whatever The F*** We Want Records, Catalogue #WRWTFWW025) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2018 We Release Whatever The F*** We Want Records label LP edition of highly sought-after 1981 Japanese ambient/minimalist/avant-garde percussion masterpiece album 'Mkwaju' by the Mkwaju Ensemble, led by Midori Takada. Originally released in 1981 in Japan on the Better Days label.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

WRWTFWW Records announces the highly anticipated official reissue of holy grail album MKWAJU by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's MKWAJU Ensemble, sourced from the original masters: vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of Deutsche Grammophon.) Originally recorded in February and March 1981 and released by fabled Japanese avant-garde label Better Days (home of Ryuichi Sakamato's debut album, Yasuaki Shimizu's Kakashi (1982), Colored Music's self-titled LP (WRWTFWW 024LP, 2018) and many more) MKWAJU is the fruit of the collaboration between Takada's crew and world-famous composer/musical director Joe Hisaishi, the man behind most of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli anime soundtracks and over 100 other films scores, including Takeshi Kitano's Sonatine (1993), Hana-Bi (1997), and Kikujiro (1999). The ensemble's transcendental wonder is, in fact, the first-ever Midori Takada album and the first-ever Joe Hisaishi-produced album: historic. Led by Midori Takada on marimba, gong, vibraphone, and tom tom, MKWAJU is an inventive and riveting take on Eastern and Western minimalist traditions, African rhythms, and early electronica. Drawing from its jazz-rooted polyrhythmic improvisations in the most inventive ways, the album covers a wide spectrum of sounds, from colorful dance floor-ready percussion pieces that stand somewhere between proto-techno and experimental synth-pop, to cinematic ambient landscapes and ethereal drone delicacies. The feverishly sought-after full-length is a stepping-stone in Midori Takada's career and an all-around pioneering album. Alongside Takada and Hisaishi (who not only produced the album but also played synthesizers), personnel on MKWAJU includes famed Japanese musicians Yoji Sadanari and Hideki Matsutake of KI-Motion (WRWTFWW 026LP, 2018) fame, Junko Arase (heard on Satoshi Ashikawa's legendary Still Way - Wave Notation 2(1982)), and Pecker (whose stacked resume boasts collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jun Fukamachi).

- WRWTFWW Records presents a reissue of MKWAJU by acclaimed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's MKWAJU Ensemble.
- MKWAJU is the fruit of the collaboration between Takada and Joe Hisaishi, the man behind most of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli anime soundtracks.
- Led by Takada, MKWAJU is an inventive and riveting take on Eastern and Western minimalist traditions, African rhythms, and early electronica.
- LP on 140 gram vinyl; 350 gram sleeve, with sticker.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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