Kan Mikami
Kan Mikami is a Japanese folk singer. His music, heavily influenced by American blues, was popular in Japan in the 1970s.
A Life in Folk (and Other Bitter Songs) (Book + CD)
A Life in Folk (and other bitter songs) brings Kan Mikami’s uncompromising voice into English through his 2000 autobiography, expanded with further writing, interviews and a previously unreleased 2017 Sapporo concert. Part confession, part cultural h…
夕焼けの記憶から・青森ライブ
2006 release ** A one-of-a-kind underground folk singer, actor, and poet spanning Shōwa to Reiwa. This Aomori live album captures nearly all of his signature songs.
I'm The Only One Around
*2025 stock* For over 50 years, Kan Mikami has stood as a master of the Japanese blues and outsider folk. His unmistakable, powerfully evocative voice and surrealistic poetry reveal a gritty, transgressive life on the margins shot through with evocat…
Live at Cafe Oto
CD version. Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin-shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people…
Barking practice-White lines
Kanryu: Debut Live in Korea 2006 sees Mikami reunited with the masterful Korean komungo player and vocalist Shin Heyon, who played together him on the Fukon group release (PSFD-8001). Eight years on that epochal cross-cultural meeting, Mikami journey…
Jazz
Incredible screaming voice and guitar sound. New dimensions of real Japanese folk legend.