Carmen Maki & OZ: 閉ざされた町

Can't believe May is over....time goes by too fast and come June 19th I'll have been in Korea for 4 months! This month's most popular posts have been for Seiko Matsuda, Akiko Yano, Akeboshi, Perfume and Carmen Maki & OZ. So for popularity sake, here is Carmen Maki & OZ's 2nd album and Perfume's 2nd below! More Akeboshi and Akiko Yano will be posted soon as well! Enjoy!

閉ざされた町 (1976)

1. Introduction

2. 崩壊の前日

3. 振り子のない時計

4. 火の鳥

5. Lost Love

6. 閉ざされた町

7. Epilogue

Carmen Maki & OZ: Carmen Maki & OZ

Back from a two day workshop and ready to enjoy my three day weekend. Judging by whats been popular recently, I thought this one would follow suit. Carmen Maki is a great Japanese songstress starting her career in the mid 60's and she is still recording today. After a string of solo albums and a single effort with the established group "BLUES CREATION", Maki help form a new group in a progressive rock vein named "OZ". The group released 3 albums and one live album and were fairly successfully despite Carmen Maki reportedly having a diminishing status in the music world around the time of their debut. I find their music to be fairly enjoyable and I was glad to have discovered this album (along with the second) on "The Vault". Enjoy!

Carmen Maki & OZ (1975)

1. 六月の詩

2. 朝の風景

3. Image Song

4. 午前1時のスケッチ

5. きのう酒場で見た女

6. 私は風