Tokyo Rose (album)

Tokyo Rose
Studio album by Van Dyke Parks
Released July 1989
Genre Art rock
Length 46:24
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Andrew Wickam
Van Dyke Parks chronology
Jump!
(1984)		 Tokyo Rose
(1989)		 Fisherman & His Wife
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Tokyo Rose is a 1989 album by American musician Van Dyke Parks. The album concerns the intersection between Japanese and American cultures, particularly as reflected in the competitive "Trade War" of the 1980s. The intersection between the two cultures is nowhere more obvious than in the album's first song, "America, " an adaptation of "America the Beautiful" with numerous pentatonic shifts characteristic of Japanese music, played on a combination of standard Western instruments and traditional Japanese instruments, such as the biwa and the koto.

Track listing

All songs written by Van Dyke Parks, except track 1, which is public domain, arranged and adapted by Parks; track 10, Japanese lyrics by Amy Furumoto.

  1. "America" – 3:47
  2. "Tokyo Rose" – 5:08
  3. "Yankee Go Home" (features vocal of Danny Hutton) – 6:27
  4. "Cowboy" – 4:35
  5. "Manzanar" – 6:02
  6. "Calypso" (features vocal of Mari Iijima) – 4:27
  7. "White Chrysanthemum" – 4:00
  8. "Trade War" – 4:40
  9. "Out of Love" – 3:18
  10. "One Home Run" – 4:00

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 02, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.