{"id":6318,"date":"2022-08-11T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:47:26","slug":"music-more-masayoshi-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: More Masayoshi Musings\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ok, so last night, thinking that my daily listening to <em>The Rainbow Goblins<\/em> &#8211; sometimes multiple times &#8211; might be starting to wear thin, or lose it\u2019s charm &#8211; I discovered (thanks to YouTube\u2019s algorithm-bots) Takanaka\u2019s unbelievably wonderful live 1981 Budokan performance of the entire album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxD4Wbd_Fuo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to discovering Takanaka and his sublime music I would never have imagined watching a Japanese guy in a yellow plastic outfit, with rainbow hair and a rainbow axe, and a band dressed dressed in giant paper\/mach\u00e9 goblin heads, would or could make me so happy. Who knew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now it\u2019s time to knuckle down to some extra-curricular work &#8211; I\u2019m stony broke, and a teacher in my summer hols (normally I\u2019d be able to coast through the summer. Not this year!) &#8211; earn me some doh-re-mi, and (once the wolf is safely chased from the door!) start exploring his wider catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"659\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8604.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8604.jpg 659w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8604-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know I want <em>Seychelles<\/em> (1976), his self titled \u201877 recording, and <em>An Insatiable High<\/em> (1977). Whilst I\u2019m on the topic of the latter album, I wonder, did Jack Stratton of Vulfpeck cop his sporty look from Takanaka? Or is that just an example of what art historian Norman Rosenthal once called \u2018morphological resonance\u2019?*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"697\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8600.jpg 697w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8600-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8600-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8600-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Takanaka\u2019s T-shirt and the road markings chime!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_8606-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Morphological resonance, homage, plagiarism?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vulfpeck have an incredibly strong aesthetic, from their own font, to the little neo-classical and yet hyper-modern logo\/jingle combo that starts their videos, to the sounds and visuals. And yet despite this, Takanaka\u2019s sporty look &#8211; or rather the starkly sublime design brilliance of <em>Insatiable High<\/em>\u2019s cover imagery &#8211; manages to be effortlessly and very Japanesely, \u2018supelior\u2019! Banzai!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Trust an art critic to coin such a wordy phrase. Why use \u2018they just so happen to look the same\u2019, or \u2018coincidence\u2019, when you can invent your own snappy polysyllabic term!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so last night, thinking that my daily listening to The Rainbow Goblins &#8211; sometimes multiple times &#8211; might be starting to wear thin, or lose it\u2019s charm &#8211; I discovered (thanks to YouTube\u2019s algorithm-bots) Takanaka\u2019s unbelievably wonderful live 1981 Budokan performance of the entire album. Prior to discovering Takanaka and his sublime music I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: More Masayoshi Musings\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,77,15,10,58],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1DU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}