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So-Do

Studio Works '83-'85

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  • All songs written & composed by Hideshi Akuta
  • Curated by Kay Suzuki
  • Artwork by Ben Arfur and Liner Notes by Anton Spice, Ayana Honma, Kay Suzuki

Description

So-Do’s dubby post-punk sound painted the idealism and disillusionment of early ‘80s bubble-era Japan in heavy-grooving funk and ice-cold style.

The story of So-Do is both familiar and completely unique. A classically trained multi-instrumentalist with a poet’s sensibility and a passion for folk music meets a worldly bar owner with a love for psychedelia, post-punk and dub in the small town neither could bring themselves to leave. Over two years, they play dozens of shows in independent live houses across Japan, cut and self-release three singles – two 7”s and a 12” – and leave behind just eight tracks, all of which are set to be reissued for the first time forty years on.

So-Do’s Studio Works ’83-’85 collects the full output of this iconoclastic post-punk phenomenon, whose sparse, syncopated arrangements were infused with a dubbed-out flair that owed more to Dennis Bovell’s productions of...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Get Away
  • 2 Kakashi
  • 3 Hashiru
  • 4 So Do
  • 5 Nothing
  • 6 Natural Wave
  • 7 Morning
  • 8 Scrambled Eggs (Digital Bonus)