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Choro Club With Vocalistas,Choro Club

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The Shoro Club's milestone, the highly acclaimed "Takemitsu Toru Songbook" is now complete with 13 additional tracks! In July 2011, "Shoro Club", a string trio consisting of Ou Akioka (bandolin), Shigeharu Sasago (guitar), and Joji Sawada (double bass), performed the songs (pop songs) left by the great contemporary musician Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) with seven vocalists (Ann Sally, Sizzle Ohtaka, Yuichi Ohata Yuichi Ohata, Chie Sawa, tamamix, Mio Matsuda, and Takashi Matsudaira), and released as "The Toru Takemitsu Songbook. The Shoro Club spun the feelings that the contemporary composer entrusted to "songs," also known as pop songs, with vocalistas, and the album has been listened to as a masterpiece ever since its release. In 2020, the album was moved to the BETTER DAYS label, and was released as a complete set of all the songs with additional unrecorded material, including live recordings. Miyuki Hatakeyama and Yuuga joined as vocalists, and Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most famous poets of our time who has created many works with Toru Takemitsu, participated in the live recording.The striking cover photo is by Tetsuya Fukui, as in the previous issue, and an additional two shots of Toru Takemitsu and Shuntaro Tanikawa are taken from a photo by Shozo Kitashiro (from the collection of the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art).