Kentaro Haneda – Hakushaku to Yobareta Otoko

FLAC | CUE | LOG

JAZZ | FUNNY | DETECTIVESQUE

FLAC (https://mega.nz/#!sZ5EUCrC!MlhVPRny2sCDNKzzQGLPEFxE9FamxjdxkoV7YzBWE90)

This image album must be one of the rarest albums in Kentaro Haneda’s discography, and it’s worth the effort I’ve put into acquiring it. Aside from being one of the rarest, if not the rarest, album I’ve shared in this forum, and that’s to say something, this album is something unique, extra-special. It’s unique in the discography of Kentaro Haneda because it’s his first and maybe only serious foray into jazz, although he has vastly explored jazzy sonorities in some soundtracks such as "Space Adventure Cobra", albeit in small doses.

Even someone of the great talent of Haneda must have strived for producing such a refined work, and I say this because I took the effort to translate his comments found on the booklet, and he explained that this one was a work of trial and error. The album would be used as a score for a manga whose setting is America (Hollywood and New York City) in the 1930’s and with adult themes (murders, drugs). Haneda doesn’t restrict only to provide the sound world of that era, and he does that perfectly, but also brings his own signature tricks to round up the album.

The album is almost a continuous piece of music, mixed with sound effects like claps, background noises of night clubs, daily city sounds. The feeling on listening this album is that you’re involved in the own story, a detective noir one, with simulated live peformances of classic jazz songs and an old sounding record. Special mention to the japanese singers that, except in the first track, sound as good as any classic singer of that era.

You got something of big band, wacky piano extravaganza, sorrowful ballads and even a tango. There is more in this than just a story being evoked through music, is the spirit, the passion and the soul that almost 30 years ago an incomparable composer put into this music.

Enjoy the journey to the past.

It’s CD rip? I has some click noise.

Yes, the CD was released in 1986 but it’s in perfect condition. All the noises you can hear while playing the music are, as mentioned above, completely intentional as a means to draw the listener into the story that this album tries to depict.

All Kentar� Haneda’s albums in lossless are always welcome.