Kazuki Tomokawa - Kazuki Tomokawa 1975-1977A poet, soothsayer, bicycle race tipster, actor, prolific drinker, self taught guitarist, and living legend of Japanese sound, Kazuki Tomokawa catapulted into Tokyo's avant folk scene in the mid 1970s, forging a sound and sensibility marked by throat wrenching vocals and searing ennui. Among his musical peers in postwar Japan, Tomokawa distinguished himself as a pioneer of radical individualism. He had "the personality of a hydrogen bomb" as the

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but also demonstrating how his style and relevance to the blues endured across the decades

as an international opera star and an Armenian who was born in Lebanon

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She studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (artistic diploma with grade 1

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the better to respond to the brutality of the age'

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The symphonic poem for large orchestra Tod und Verklärung depicts the last hour of an artist's life: the listener is gripped from the very first bars

Although she was very much a song stylist of the early'50s she sustained a chart career into the post-rock 'n' roll era