{"product_id":"lily-o-genki-desu-ka","title":"Lily - O Genki Desu Ka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLily’s early life runs parallel to an untold story of post-war Japan, that of the marginalised hafu - children of half Japanese \/ half foreign parents. Likely to be a target, a vessel for the bitterness, from the humiliation of the American Occupation, to the buried guilt of Japan’s own atrocities, enacted on their Asian neighbours. Her troubled formative years - an absent father, and losing her mother in her teens - possibly contributed to the development of the bluesy edge of her vocal style, or maybe it was the smoke from the jazz bar her mother ran.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs with many outsiders of the 60s and early 70s, she turned up in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, a famed spot for many a writer, actor, artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand musician. It was here her songs first aired, and she was swiftly booked to record her music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a groove set in stone with her Bye-Bye Session Band - later including Ryuichi Sakamoto and jazz keyboardist Hiroshi Sato - this selection covers her 70s period, with strong seams of soul, funk, touches of folk- and space-rock, and her signature (in Japan) heartbreaking ballads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVibrations from the other side of the globe, in the same period as classic Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Cymande, Sly \u0026amp; The Family Stone, and the rest, all with Lily's voice make this music utterly unique.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Japan Blues","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":54455135666518,"sku":"MRM-06809","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/a2962306840_10.png?v=1783417784","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/lily-o-genki-desu-ka","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}