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UPC: 3700604766698

Release Date: 2/21/2025

 

Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Wewantsounds continues it's extensive Meiko Kaji reissue program in partnership with Teichiku Records and Meiko Kaji herself, with the release of Gincho Wataridori, her debut album from 1972. The album features the song "Gincho Wataridori" a theme song for the eponymous gangster film released by Toei Films in 1972 (and known outside of Japan as "Wandering Ginza Butterfly"). On the cover of the album, Meiko actually wears the kimono she wears in the film. The song showcases Kaji's distinctive singing over a funky backbeat and fuzz guitar. Ginchou Wataridori was produced by two seasoned Teichiku producers, Yorifumi Ito and Kenji Nakajima and features a superb mix of pop songs ("Hakodate Monogatari"), funky ones ("Koini Inochio," "Shitto") and atmospheric ones ("Jingi Komoriuta") making the perfect setting for Meiko Kaji's unique singing, reflecting the cool, dangerous atmosphere of the films she would star in. The first of a series of five LPs produced for Teichiku between 1972 and 1974, Gincho Wataridori marks the beginning of Meiko Kaji's fruitful career as a recording artist and is a unique testament of her singing talent which Wewantsounds reissues in it's full glory with gatefold sleeve, remastered from the original master tapes.

 

Track     

 

Title

 

1Ginchou Wataridori (3:10)
2Jingi Komoriuta (3:19)
3Koini Inochio (3:17)
4Ginchou Buruusu (2:50)
5Hakodate Monogatari (3:40)
6Inochino Namida (3:30)
7Hamabeno Meruhen (3:06)
8Yogirino Sukina Anata (3:32)
9Kanashii Egao (3:42)
10Kokoro Nokori (3:01)
11Shitto (3:10)
12Aieno Kitai (2:23)

Meiko Kaji - Gincho Wataridori

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