Paul Adolphus – The New Year [Australia/Japan ; Psychedelic Folk] (1973)

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• ˝Paul Adolphus is an Australian musician whose only recording is his 1973 psychedelic-folk album “The Dawn Wind”. Adolphus playing guitar, vocals, flutes, and shakuhachi, recorded the album in Kyoto, Japan, with engineer-slash-multi-instrumentalist Mitsu Harada.˝

  *”My first visit to Japan was in 1968 after living in India and Sri Lanka. My wife at the time arrived in Kyoto, and had our first child there. We really loved it. We returned to Sweden then went back to Kyoto and had our second child there. We lived in a two hundred year old farm house in a village outside Kyoto. It was a great scene at the time. Japanese artists, bohemians, and visiting foreigners making art music poetry etc. I was playing music with different people, then developed a musical relationship with Mitsu Harada. We did concerts and toured to other cities in Japan together. Before leaving Japan Mitsu organized to record the album together. Mitsu’s father was the grand master of a calligraphy school. In a large room in the school Mitsu set up mikes and a big stereo recorder consul. Most of the playing was by Mitsu and myself; an American friend played a little guitar and percussion to fill some holes. A group of friends sat around, so it was a bit of a living room concert feel. It was my material, Mitsu engineered as well as playing. I think there were 200 copies pressed, the covers were hand made, so it was released into the small arts community of Kyoto and Tokyo. Not long after the recording I travelled with the family to Australia, I had been away from here for a decade. I worked on a lot of projects here, composing for theatre and dance. I had a group called Living Music – an African drummer, Indian tabla, didjeridoo, winds etc. It was early days, not too many people were ready for world music.”*

  (source: https://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Adolphus/+wiki )

  March 25, 2023 at 2:37 pm

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