Osamu Kitajima - "Masterless Samurai" [1978] @320 (Excellent Prog-Japanese Crossover)

Masterless Samurai is probably the best effort by Osamu Kitajima, a japanese multi instrumentalist better known in the West for his later New Age albums.
In Masterless Samurai, Kitajima combines traditional Instruments of Japan (Koto, Sakuhashi, Sho) with a western jazz-rock ensemble thus obtaining excellent results. The album is immersed in the serenity and poetics of the Samurai, but it also expresses a brilliant and explosive vitality, in rythms, epic moments like the sonic background of multicolored swordsmen spinning and fighting around their destiny.
Masterless Samurai can also be seen as a concept album inspired by the traditional story of the Ronin,(17 samurais that had lost their master in the hands of a traitor and whose only purpose was to recover their dignity to be able to die with honor). I have never tired of listening to this album. I recommend it to those who like prog and fusion with exotic touches. An excellent and very much forgotten work.

Keep Listening!!!


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Posted at 5:46 AM by nahavanda

11 comments:

  1. saatukApril 3, 2006 at 9:25 AM

    Thanks for the Osamu. I've only got this one on LP and haven't played it for a couple of years. FWIW I prefer his self-titled by a small margin.

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  2. One Hand ClappingJune 9, 2006 at 4:35 PM

    It's about time I Thank You for this one! I couldn't remember where I got it from.
    Real nice, and Cheers!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 10, 2006 at 5:46 PM

    I would say his best is, WITHOUT A DOUBT, Benzaiten from a few years earlier. Masterless samurai - which I thank you for posting here - has some of the elements that made Benzaiten so incredible, but it's watered down here with more commercial funky fusion stylings that for me make it a large disappointment in comparison. Still enough good stuff to make it worthwhile, but Benzaiten is hard to top and this doesn't quite cut it as a whole album, I think.

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  4. avvaAugust 18, 2007 at 12:31 PM

    Hi, I am very interested in Osamu's early albums. Could you reload this one? The link is dead.

    And any chance to post Benzaiten? I was really impressed even by the single track I found on the Net. Tnaks.

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  5. AnonymousApril 11, 2008 at 11:07 PM

    I would also like to see this re-uploaded. I just discovered your blog and nobody else has this one. Thanks!

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 3, 2008 at 10:44 PM

    Please re-upload this album again OK?!I have already found it for many years! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM

    Please re-up..this is the only place i have seen it..Thank you.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM

    Please post new link, it is dead!

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  9. AnonymousAugust 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM

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  10. AnonymousAugust 30, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    I've got find it

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2009 at 1:21 PM

    Any change for re-upload?

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