Asagaya - Light of the Dawn

I listened to Asagaya at the first time in a Jakarta compilation album. Track called Washy P is still one the best tune on this list (besides Ta-ku). So, according to the LP cover of Light Of The Dawn, Asagaya is a Japanese man convinced to be the heir of a cherokee chief and the album tells his story, his travels - his music is chamanism and chaos. Great intro, for me it has too much mannerism but it is okay. We understand that this is very important for the artist - but you'll also get this from his music.

This album was produced by Guts, and it sounds crazy. Something in the way could be a great intro - but it is an outro. It doesn't matter, I will defineteley use this track as an intro in my sets. The album has a lot of great vocals. E.g. awesome and catchy hiphop beats like Suncat, Washy P, Penguin Beach and Women The lyrics are easy to remember - they are not difficult - and it needs some time to make you like them. There are more soulful, funky stuff with trumpets and female vocal: Elusive Delusive, The Nature Creature. Redneck Parade has very intense RJD2 impressions. Armenian Princess is like a western OST, a call for Ennio Morricone fans. In the Mountain of Bliss is a great shaman blues ballade, somewhere next to Captain Beeefheart and Katie Melua.

I like very much this vinyl. It is diverse, hiphop, blues, shamanism, I guess there are more and more music that uses native American motives (e.g. see Romare).

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Jefe