Yoshio Kimura

Yoshio Kimura – Umibe No Sketch (1978) [Reissue 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:09 minutes | Scans included | 804 MB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Scans included | 501 MB
New Century Workshop # NCSKA203

The virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura has the skilled performance techniques but never show off it on purpose, manifesting the charm of one generation master. The sound of guitar is profound, giving you a sense of dreamlike and wonderful listening feelings, which can be regarded as an example recording for other guitar performances. This album (with Japanese titles, means “Seaside Sketch”) features New Age/Easy Listening instrumental music.

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Yoshio Kimura – Takahara No Sketch (1978) [Reissue 2015]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 43:25 minutes | Scans included | 752 MB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Scans included | 519 MB
New Century Workshop # NCSKA204

The virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura has the skilled performance techniques but never show off it on purpose, manifesting the charm of one generation master. The sound of guitar is profound, giving you a sense of dreamlike and wonderful listening feelings, which can be regarded as an example recording for other guitar performances. This album (with Japanese titles, means “Highland sketch”) features New Age/Easy Listening instrumental music.

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Yoshio Kimura – Romance D’Amour (1978) [Reissue 2016]
Guitarist Yoshio Kimura was the pride of Japanese music circles, for his consummate performance techniques, unique arrangement skill and giving the audiences extraordinary sense of hearing, and known as the Japanese guitar Emperor’s virtuoso. He applied the crafted skills to turn traditional pieces into unique style and exciting songs, created a wonderful guitar world with his hands and wisdom.

Yoshio Kimura liked music when he was a little child, and the beautiful music is his lifetime pursuit. In his early musical career, Kimura just played jazz. Because jazz is full of passion, dynamic and personality; Besides, the unique rhythm of jazz and close to the life improvisation is also popular with people, specially favored by active young people. But this kind of music is over passion and exposed personality, which is not in accord with the features of Japanese contained, introverted temperament. So later Kimura chose to play folk songs which were more suitable for the Japanese national character, and won the whole of Japan, Southeast Asia and even the people of the world’s favorite. Some people says: Kimura’s performances have become a common memory of the times. Yoshio Kimura is an outstanding performance artist, his works not only exist in the twentieth century Asian music, also will be like our country masterpiece “lofty mountains and flowing water”, as works of the European classical music Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and other musicians, always exist in the eternal love of thousands of households.

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Yoshio Kimura & Enkakurabu – Showa No Meikyoku Collection, Vol. 2 (2017)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:03 minutes | Scans included | 725 MB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Scans included | 524 MB
New Century Workshop # NCCRYK 20818

Released 20 years after death of the virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura, “Yoshio Kimura’s Guitar Enka: Showa No Meikyoku masterpiece collection”, is a collection of familiar tunes performed by Yoshio Kinuma and Enka Club. This is the second volume of double set.

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Yoshio Kimura & Enkakurabu – Showa No Meikyoku Collection, Vol. 1 (2017)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:14 minutes | Scans included | 701 MB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Scans included | 509 MB
New Century Workshop # NCCRYK 20817

Released 20 years after death of the virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura, “Yoshio Kimura’s Guitar Enka: Showa No Meikyoku masterpiece collection”, is a collection of familiar tunes performed by Yoshio Kinuma and Enka Club. This is the first volume of double set.

没後20年を迎えるギターの名手・木村好夫の名演で聴く、懐かしの昭和演歌のヒット曲集。思わず口ずさんでしまうお馴染みの名曲ばかりを収録。 (C)RS

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Yoshio Kimura – A Time For Us: Movie Themes (1978) [Reissue 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:20 minutes | 817 MB
DSD64 Stereo (tracks.dsf) 1 bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear (small) | 1,29 GB
FLAC Stereo (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front/Rear (small) covers | 1,13 GB
New Century Workshop # NCASYK16002

The virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura has the skilled performance techniques but never show off it on purpose, manifesting the charm of one generation master. The sound of guitar is profound, giving you a sense of dreamlike and wonderful listening feelings, which can be regarded as an example recording for other guitar performances. As title says, this album features the music from the movies performed in an juicy instrumental arrangements.

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