友川かずき(Kazuki Tomokawa)

"Japanese acid-folk singer, poet, author, artist and racing tipster, 

active in the Japanese music scene since the early seventies. 

Often described as a “screaming philosopher” due to his 

idiosyncratic singing style. Whether screaming his lungs out 

while thrashing his guitar within an inch of its life (his 

legendarily wild performances frequently end up with all 

strings snapped during a single song), creating gorgeously 

romantic and limpid tone-scapes, Tomokawa never remains 

any less than himself. He walks a path of untutored intelligence, 

piercing sensitivity, and fully exorcised passions all too rare

in the shallow husk of today’s debased world." 

Discogs

[studio albums] 
1975 - Finally, The First Album 
1976 - A Natural Voice 
1977 - Senbazuru Wo Kuchi Ni Kuwaeta Hibi 
1978 - Poems That Won’t Stop Crying From Within Me 
1980 - Within the Country of Falling Cherry Blossoms 
1981 - The Sea Is Silent, The Voice’s Soul Is Suffering 
1986 - Beauty Without Mercy 
1994 - Fault Of Flowers 
1994 - Playing with Phantoms 
1995 - Dance A Bonodori Alone 
1996 - Fat in the Morning Light 
1998 - Day by Day Dreams Die With Blithe 
1998 - The Process of Stars 
1999 - Sky Fish 
2000 - Red Polyanthus 
2001 - The Eyes of Elise 
2002 - A Blow By Kenshin 
2003 - Nakahara Chuya Sakuhinnshu ['78 re-interpretation]  
2008 - Blue Water, Red Water 
2009 - A Bumpkin’s Empty Bravado 


[live albums] 
1979 - A Dog - Live in Akita 
1995 - GOEN: Live In Nihon Seinenkan 
1995 - Shibuya Apia Document 
2005 - Live 2005 Osaka Banana Hall 


[compilation album] 
Itsuka, Toku O Miteita 


[extra songs] 
Can’t Comprehend the Meaning Behind these Emotions 
The Spring that Never Comes

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