Osamu Kitajima
Osamu Kitajima is a Japanese composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who later settled in the Los Angeles area. His music moves between folk, psychedelic and progressive rock, jazz fusion and new age, often built around traditional Japanese instruments. He is best known for Benzaiten (Island Records, 1974), a mostly instrumental album that set koto, biwa and shakuhachi against rock arrangements, with Haruomi Hosono among the players. Kitajima studied classical guitar and piano as a child and played in the 1960s with The Launchers, the band of his cousin Yūzō Kayama.
Benzaiten
World music and ethno sounds with an obvious Japanese origin meet progressive rock and psyche. The result is a captivating piece of melodic and deeply atmospheric music that paints pictures of life in ancient Japan into your mind when you lay back, c…
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The Osamu Kitajima Boxset
**180g audiophile black vinyls in heavy covers, housed in a beautiful box with magnetic lock, containing all inserts of the original LPs.** In early december 2019 Everland Music released a mindblowing boxset with Osamu Kitajima’s first 5 highly accla…
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Osamu
This is the third album by Osamu Kitajima, one of Japan’s most prolific artists from the ethno rock, world music and progressive department. You can certainly not divide all the mentioned stylistic aspects from each other for they were all incorporat…
Shin Chugoku
A duo by Osamu Kitajima and Fumio Miyashita, formed at the end of 1971 when Osamu Kitajima returned from his trip to United Kingdom where he got influenced by exploding psychedelic rock scene that was happening at the time. After recording his debut …
Masterless Samurai
It’s impossible to define the genre behind Osamu Kitajima’s music. “Masterless Samurai” is another step in the ongoing career of Kitajima. It’s a very unique blend of Jazz Fusion with traditional Japanese music. There aren’t any other albums that wou…
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Dragon King
Osamu Kitajima continuously experimented with various music genres that include Japanese traditional music, Ethno Jazz and Progressive Rock elements. “Dragon King” is a very well recorded album that contains Funky tunes and mellow Soul songs, as well…