Hako Yamasaki – 飛・び・ま・す (E/E) – LP, JP 1976, With OBI

飛・び・ま・す is an LP by Hako Yamasaki from 1976 released on the Aard-Vark label.

About this album

Hako Yamasaki’s 飛・び・ま・す is a stark, poetic album that helped define the more introspective side of 1970s Japanese folk and kayōkyoku. Released in 1975, it pairs her deeply expressive vocal delivery with restrained, finely judged arrangements that give the songs a tense emotional weight. Yamasaki’s writing and performance turned private feeling, travel and longing into something vividly immediate, making the record stand out in a period when Japanese pop was broadening its expressive range. Its enduring reputation comes from the way it balances folk-rooted directness with a quietly unsettling mood.

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