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Hiroki Tamaki’s career has been defined by a resistance against traditional form. Born in Kobe and raised in a Zen temple, the young violinist found his first professional engagement with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and immediately rebelled against the 12-tone temperament on which Western classical music was built. A proponent instead of just intonation, Tamaki returned to the fold in 1975 to release Time Paradox, a sweeping prog-rock odyssey that featured synth maestro and honorary “fourth member of YMO” Hideki Matsutake. It would be another four years until Tamaki found himself once again working with an orchestra, this time for the synth and strings epic Kumoino Hototogisukoku.
A year before its release Tamaki came across the teachings of infamous religious leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho, and by 1980, Tamaki had translated this new-found obsession into a full-on tribute album named after Rajneesh himself. “I have no confidence that I understood Rajneesh's teachings properly, but in my own understanding, life is a powerful protest against those who cannot move freely due to habits of all kinds, regardless of religion or system,” he wrote in the liner notes that accompanied a 2009 CD reissue of the album.
It’s not hard to see why Tamaki’s renegade tendencies were attracted to a doctrine of self-actualisation such as this. With artwork by Japanese graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo (whose credits include Haroumi Hosono, Santana and Tangerine Dream) Tamaki’s Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh contributes two tracks on this compilation, ‘Kawa’ and ‘Beautiful Song’.
Sitting by the river,
You share.
Clouds drift by, and time flows on,
You share.
Clouds drift by, and time flows on,
You share.
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from Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980,
released February 9, 2024
Composed, written, arranged & produced by Hiroki Tamaki
Licensed by Nippon Columbia Co.,Ltd
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