Edito de Guy Blackman In JapanChapter Music boss Guy Blackman left Melbourne in September 2002 to find adventure in Tokyo, Japan. There, he discovered an amazing world of tiny venues, friendly musicians, and a group of bands connected by ideas of spontaneity, improvisation and a kind of drug-free psychedelia. Guy Blackman In Japan is a ragged but atmosphere-rich document of his musical activity there, featuring five songs recorded in one afternoon, with one microphone, the weekend before he got on a plane back to Melbournein early 2004, plus three songs recorded at the last live gig he played in Tokyo. Accompanying Guy are members of many of the bands featured on Chapter?s Japanese compilation Songs For Nao, including Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tenniscoats, My Pal Foot Foot and Andersens. The EP also includes a live cover of Nat King Cole?s Answer Me My Love, sung as a duet with Tenniscoats vocalist Saya. Guy?s own songs display a subdued intensity quite different to his last band, the poppier Sleepy Township. Songs like Older, written on his 29th birthday, and Mortified, about the confusing world of Tokyo gay nightlife, have an emotional vividness that breaks through the somewhat cloudy fidelity. And as Guy says in the CD?s liner notes, ?the recordings are very rough, but to me they sound like Japan.? Lire la suite