Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Shuji Inaba
Yoenzance

Last Visible Dog LVD-025

CD
£10.99


Reissue of an excellent live album by this Japanese folk spirit with similarities to Kazuki Tomokawa and Kan Mikami. Inaba's guitar style moves from folk-poet to pugilist with a flick of the wrist and his vocal style is just as devouring, gravelling vowels deep in his throat and crunching consonants in his teeth in a way that renders all language barriers irrelevant. This is universally recognisable blues balladry in the finest, spirit-baring tradition.