Carmen Maki Blues Creation

by Carmen Maki & Blues Creation

Carmen Maki Blues Creation cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Denon
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 43:25
  • Community rating: 3.52/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pairing the celebrated Japanese vocalist with the country's heaviest blues-rock ensemble resulted in a dark, blistering masterpiece of heavy psych. Maki's haunting, Janis Joplin-inspired wails perfectly complement Kazuo Takeda's devastating, proto-doom guitar riffs and feedback-drenched improvisations. It stands as an undeniable, collaborative pinnacle of Japan's early 1970s underground rock explosion.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Understand (5:00)
  2. And You (2:59)
  3. Lord, I Can't Be Going No More (3:33)
  4. Empty Heart (8:32)
  5. Motherless Child (6:56)
  6. I Can't Live For Today (4:37)
  7. Mean Old Boogie (5:02)
  8. St. James Infirmary (6:43)

Credits

  • Rank Grafikdesign - artwork
  • Andreas Nad - bass
  • Mark Pendry - clarinet [clarinetto]
  • Konrad N盲geli - classical guitar [additional]
  • Luz Marsen - drums
  • Anna Batke - flute
  • Julia Schweiger - flute [additional]

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