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Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet.

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Options May 4, 2022: Maki 1970-80
An all-vinyl immersion into the first decade of Asakawa Maki (浅川マキ), one of Japan's most beloved underground singers, featuring some of her greatest folk, blues, jazz, and avant-garde tracks

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 
Intro   Options
Bodega Pop 
2022 
 
0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 時には母のない子のように（黒人霊歌）   Options Asakawa Maki's World 浅川マキの世界  1970    0:04:21 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Strange Fruit 奇妙な果実   Options Blue Spirit Blues ブルー・スピリット・ブルース  1972    0:06:51 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  That Guy Played the Piano あの男がピアノを弾いた   Options One  1980    0:13:20 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  That Man Left あの人は行った   Options Cross the Stream 流れを渡る  1977    0:18:12 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Such a Woman Is the First Blues あんな女ははじめてのブルース   Options Maki VI  1974    0:22:43 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Rear Window 裏窓   Options Live Evening ライヴ 夜  1978    0:28:00 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  The House of the Rising Sun 朝日のあたる家   Options Maki II 浅川マキ II  1971    0:32:56 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Gasoline Alley ガソリン・アレイ   Options Live  1972    0:39:23 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  St. James Infirmary セント・ジェームス病院   Options Rear Window 裏窓  1973    0:45:07 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Too Much Mystery   Options Lonely Days 寂しい日々  1978    0:52:18 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Ikuko Harada 
Exclamation Mark and Sigh 感嘆符と溜め息   Options
Kemono to Mahou 
2008 
 
0:55:38 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Dead Spring 死春記   Options Live  1972    1:01:25 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Rags and Old Iron ボロと古鉄   Options Maki VI  1974    1:05:55 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  At Dawn & A Cat Named Fushiawase 夜が明けたら & ふしあわせという名の猫   Options Asakawa Maki's World 浅川マキの世界  1970    1:14:00 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Great Dust 大砂塵   Options Blue Spirit Blues  1972  Really not sure about the translation of this title. Could be Johnny Guitar. Help?  1:20:44 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Pignose and Letters と手紙   Options One  1980    1:24:15 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  For You あなたに   Options Cross the Stream 流れを渡る  1977    1:42:06 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Boy 少年   Options Maki II 浅川マキ II  1971    1:47:34 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  If It's Going to Pass Like This こんな風に過ぎて行くのなら   Options Rear Window 裏窓  1973    1:51:01 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Remnants 面影   Options Lonely Days 寂しい日々  1978    1:54:48 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Ikuko Harada 
Exclamation Mark and Sigh 感嘆符と溜め息   Options
Kemono to Mahou 
2008 
 
1:57:36 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Cross the Stream 流れを渡る   Options Cross the Stream 流れを渡る  1977  Lyrics are translated from Langston Hughes  2:04:49 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  PM 午後   Options One  1980    2:13:44 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Town 町   Options Blue Spirit Blues ブルー・スピリット・ブルース  1972    2:21:10 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Without You あなたなしで   Options Live Evening ライヴ 夜  1978    2:24:44 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  It Snows, I Don't Love You I Can't Love You, Blues on Friday the 13th, Sanga Ariki 雪が降る, 愛さないの愛せないの, 十三日の金曜日のブルース, 山河ありき   Options Asakawa Maki's World 浅川マキの世界  1970    2:28:51 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Blister Flower めくら花   Options Maki II 浅川マキ II  1971    2:46:49 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Red Bridge 赤い橋   Options Live  1972    2:50:28 (Pop‑up)
Asakawa Maki 浅川マキ  Moving 引越し   Options Rear Window 裏窓  1973    2:54:08 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ:
Bodega Pop 
Hei La Bodega   Options
Hei La Bodega - Carnaval! 
2000 
 
2:57:53 (Pop‑up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm listener james from westwood:

Evening, Gary and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm Gary:

Howdy James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm Gary:

Oops, volume, haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm Webhamster Henry:

tageña, everyone!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm WR:

there it is,
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm caroline from atlanta:

hey folks!
  7:05pm headcleaner:

Maki!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm Gary:

Hey there, Henry, WR, Caroline, and Headcleaner!
Avatar ♥ 7:08pm The Knave:

Hi folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm Gary:

Hey there, it's The Knave! Welcome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:11pm Rich in Washington:

Hellos!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm Gary:

Rich!
Avatar ♥ 7:12pm Flash Strap:

hell yeah Gary, excited to hear this one
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm chresti:

Nice voice!

Hi Gary popper show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm Gary:

Chresti and Flash!
  7:35pm headcleaner:

Infinitely better than most Anglo versions
  7:37pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Hi Gary! Just got home to House of the Rising Sun playing. Excited to delve in to this Maki immersion!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm Gary:

Hola, Sax's daughter!
  7:38pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Otherwise known as Tracy R.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm Gary:

I suspected!
  7:39pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

He ha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm Gary:

I sent all the girls an invite to this one b/c I thought ya'll would appreciate Maki
  7:42pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Thanks for that! Loving the covers- gotta go back and listen to your 1st and 2nd track picks
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:43pm WR:

Fun hearing her do Rod Stewart version,
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:46pm WR:

You missed your copy / paste. Gasoline Alley is:
ガソリン・アレイ
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm Gary:

Good catch, WR! Fixed it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm Franco Twinkie:

Gary, I'm gonna go get tacos. You want something?
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm WR:

According to Discogs the track is credited:
Too Much Mystery
Lyrics By [日本語詩] – 浅川マキ* (Maki did the Japanese lyrics)
Written-By – B. Crutcher*, H. Banks*, R. Jackson* and yes Otis Clay did a Hi records/Memphis recording of it.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Good Evening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm Gary:

RevRab and Franco! I just had fresh ramps, rainbow chard, and spring garlic & rice, but thank you kindly
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:04pm drowsy:

Loving the education, Gary. Thank you!
  8:05pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Mesmerized by Dead Spring...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm Gary:

Drowsy! Loving the company and if you want to learn more about Maki, best place is the Honest Jons compilation that came out in 2015 -- mostly different tracks from what we're playing tonight, too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05pm Franco Twinkie:

Actually, I would rather have what you had Gary, but I'm starving and want to eat right NOW!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm Gary:

This one's an Oscar Brown Jr. track from 1960 -- where did she find it, I want to know. I need a Maki biopic or graphic novel bio
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm WR:

Interesting that on Dead Spring Maki is credited with the music and the lyrics are credited to writer / manga artist Mori Masaki. Enka flavor on that one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm Gary:

Barefoot Gen!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm Zipperhead7:

Gary! Just signed in and Maki sounds great! Never heard of her before. Thanks for the introduction!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm Gary:

Zipperhead!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thinking of Marianne Faithful somehow.
  8:26pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Revolution Rabbit- Yes!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:26pm Zipperhead7:

Sounds like Lester Bowie meets Arto Lindsay
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:37pm chresti:

Yeah RR, smoky
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:39pm WR:

大砂塵 is word by word: big or great / sand / dust or trash (as in dust pan).
The CD on discogs credits Maki for words and music. If we could understand the lyrics we might know better how to render it.
  8:41pm Akiva:

I just finished the last of my ramp butter. Gotta get out and find some more. And hopefully some morels! Loving this music. The last trip I took before the Coco was an epic tour of Japan.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm Gary:

If you google it, you get endless hits for Johnny Guitar, which doesn't mean that's what it means, exactly, but how might one have creatively translated Johnny Guitar?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm Gary:

Akiva! nice
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm melinda:

digging the tunes
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:45pm chresti:

Nice vocal fry there
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:45pm Zipperhead7:

Definitely hearing Marianne Faithful. Jeez this is great -- so bluesy. Will have to download this show and burn onto CD
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm Gary:

Melinda!
  8:49pm rw:

Helloooh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm Gary:

RW!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm melinda:

so good
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:55pm WR:

Yes, for some reason the 1954 Joan Crawford US movie Johnny Guitar was titled 大砂塵 (dai-sa-jin) which was highly regarded by some Japanese critics. 塵芥　じんかい　jin-kai is trash or worthless thing. So it probably does have something to do with the movie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm Gary:

Great Trash mebbe?
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm WR:

Goddard and Truffaut and Almodóvar all think highly of the movie Johnny Guitar, guess I should watch it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm Gary:

I remember loving it, but it was so long ago that I saw it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm Gary:

It's more fun in the theater if you get the chance
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm Zipperhead7:

I can imagine Van Morrison covering this back in the day
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm northguineahills:

so beautiful, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm Gary:

So this one is a Langston Hughes poem, possibly "Cross"?, with music by Maki
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm Gary:

NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm Ike:

Meow!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:15pm WR:

I looked on Japan Amazon and don't find any book on Maki besides her being a chapter in a book by 寺本 幸司 (Koji Teramoto) who produced her second album and maybe others (didn't look). They do have a novel written by Maki and a collection of her writings; some essays and some lyrics.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm Gary:

Ike! Wow, that's surprising. When I went to the Tower Records in Shibuya in 2010, the year she'd passed, there were a couple of CD towers of all of her work then in print on display on the ground floor and another floor
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19pm chresti:

I wonder about Pignose and Letters
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19pm caroline from atlanta:

catching up on chat - I watched Johnny Guitar recently and enjoyed it a lot. actually was listening to some Bodega Pop from the archives recently and got a huge kick out of the Sammy Clark Baka Hawak/Johnny Guitar from the March 23 show :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm Gary:

Me too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm Gary:

OMG, I forgot about that one, Caroline, haha
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:22pm WR:

Lots and lots of recordings listed but just seeing the books that I mentioned.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm chresti:

a little Buffy and Melanie
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm WR:

Have to be more than good with a dictionary to figure out which Langston Hughes poem provided the lyric for "cross the stream", which also could be translated as "against the flow" but neither seem like Langston Hughes words, I think his words would be something both more poetic and more concrete, that being part of his genius.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm Gary:

I wonder if it's this one: www.poetryfoundation.org...
  9:30pm headcleaner:

What a scorcher
  9:32pm headcleaner:

BTW it looks like The Knave will be our next horse to ride, not Sam
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33pm Gary:

Yeah, I just saw that, sorry for the confusion! Will post a link in about 10 mins or so
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:35pm WR:

Gary, that one has basic enough words that I will try to listen back from the archive. I was wondering if Hughes had written something called Crossing, and then you came up with Cross.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm WR:

And there is Crossing Jordan:
www.poetryfoundation.org...
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:39pm Jeff Golick:

Oooh baby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm Gary:

Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm Gary:

WR, that seems plausible, too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42pm Ike:

I don't know much about Japan but I've been watching Tokyo Vice on HBO Max. Anybody else seen it? So far it depicts early 2000s Japan as grossly sexist and its reporters as just believing everything the police tell them blindly, so not very flattering.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:44pm northguineahills:

@Ike: Japanese society is VERY sexist. Female professionals are still very rare, and everything is a boys club. There are a reason a lot of Japanese artistic ex-pats stay in the US.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:45pm WR:

Don't know Tokyo Vice but sexist is par for Japan, but reporters believing the police blindly, not so much. Lots of muck raking journalism in Japan, for anything that can be sensationalized.
  9:47pm passiflora:

here late!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm Gary:

Hey Kids! Do you like musical expression? If so, stick around after 10 pm because they'll be even more of it when The Knave fills in for Sam with his thrill-packed Five Miles to Midnight! Tonight's show, "Totes Horsin'" wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm Gary:

Passiflora!
  9:49pm passiflora:

:)
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:51pm WR:

Asagawa Maki is new to me, been very interesting, Gary. Thank! you! Lots more to explore and learn about.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm Zipperhead7:

Yes, quite an introduction. She's so eclectic and at home in so many styles. A shame she quit recording. Thanks, Gary!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm caroline from atlanta:

really enjoyed the show tonight, +1 maki totally new to me. thanks gary!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm northguineahills:

superb,Gary! arigato!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm chresti:

Thanks Gary!
  9:59pm Saxophonist'sdaughter:

Fantastic Gary! Thank you! Like so many others here, Maki was new to me also.
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm Jeff Golick:

Thanks, Gary!
Avatar 🇰🇷 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Gary ~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm Ike:

Thanks Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Gary!
(...hi Gary!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm Gary:

Night, everyone -- Tracy, I discovered her in Tower Tokyo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm Gary:

Ceolacanth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:03am Passaic River Blues:

What an incredible show! Thank you so much for this one.
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