Kan Mikami / John Edwards / Alex Neilson – Live at Cafe Oto [LP] Electronic / Experimental It is hard to imagine

It is hard to imagine Conrad's trajectory from downtown Manhattan to a farmhouse in the German countryside that ultimately resulted in Outside The Dream Syndicate

freely expressive

If the disintegration of a divine voice into the skittering communications of machines

lament and dance were recorded near the Sudan border

"Bohor" (1962): Bohor (referring to Bors the Younger

Kan Mikami / John Edwards / Alex Neilson – Live at Cafe Oto [LP] Electronic / Experimental It is hard to imagine"Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami is nothing less than an unalloyed force of nature; a skin shredding blast of frozen wind from the poor, rural north of Japan that he calls home. In the late 1960s, like thousands of other Japanese young people Mikami made his way to Tokyo in search of a life different from that of his parents. Since then he has forcefully carved out a space for himself in the culture as a modernist poet, a raging folk singer, an author,