Tak-Shindo
Tak Shindo, a Japanese-American soundtrack composer, studied under Miklos Rozsa. Academically trained as a musicologist, he also spent time studying traditional Asian music at the University of Tokyo. Shindo employed this background in the Hollywood sound studios of the 1950s. Between soundtrack assignments for Hollywood orientalia, such as Sayonara and Stopover Tokyo, he recorded a series of albums under his own name. Its Shindo's recordings as arranging bandleader that have the most significance for the field of pop exotica.
Thanks to CD reissue, Shindo's orchestral fantasy of Africa, Mganga, is probably the best known of his LP exotica work. However, Brass and Bamboo and Accent On Bamboo were more typical of his output. Shindo took his audacious juxtaposition of stereotypical eastness and westness to the limit on Far East Goes Western, which offered Hollywood cowboy tunes like "San Antonio Rose" and "I'm An Old Cowhand" tinted in Asian colors. All these albums were distinguished by Shindo's effective interweaving of traditional Japanese instruments and big band instrumentation. His subtle balance of koto (thirteen string zither), samisen (three string lute), bamboo flutes and temple gongs with brass, reeds, and drumset in skillful arrangements of big band chestnuts and Hollywood theme tunes achieved a blend that was witty, cosmopolitan, and almost immediately outmoded as the ascendancy of rock and its youth market turned American pop music into an arena of generational identity politics.
Along with other '50s film and television composer-arrangers like Les Baxter, Robert Drasnin, and Esquivel, Shindo's music gained stature in hindsight, rating reappraisal thanks to the intervention of exotica specialists and an intensification of interest in vintage film music. That deserved second listen demonstrates that Shindo's albums amount to much more than the kitsch of their cover graphics.
© Richard Pierson /TiVo
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MGANGA!
World - Lançado por Sundazed Music, Inc. em 01/01/1958
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Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo / Far East Goes Western
Jazz - Lançado por Blue Moon em 01/01/1958
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Tak Shindo. Brass and Bamboo / Accent on Bambo. Exciting Big-Band Standards with an Oriental Flavor
Jazz Fusion & Jazz Rock - Lançado por BLUE MOON em 02/10/2014
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Far East Goes Western
Classical - Lançado por Vinyl Masters em 01/11/2013
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Presenting Tak Shindo
Lounge - Lançado por Universal Digital Enterprises em 31/03/1958
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The Space Age Collection; Exotica, Volume 6 (Stereo)
Lounge - Lançado por PROFOUND em 07/02/2020
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Brass And Bamboo
Jazz - Lançado por CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) em 01/01/1959
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Far East Goes Western
World - Lançado por Mercury Records em 01/09/1962
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Accent On Bamboo
World - Lançado por CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) em 25/07/1960
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Brass And Bamboo (Album of 1959)
Lounge - Lançado por Memories em 31/05/2023
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Mganga! - The Primitive Sound Of Tak Shindo (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1958)
Pop - Lançado por Weird Music - Exotica em 01/01/2013
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The Space Age Collection; Exotica, Volume 4 (Stereo)
Lounge - Lançado por PROFOUND em 07/02/2020
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The Space Age Collection; Exotica, Volume 7 (Stereo)
Lounge - Lançado por PROFOUND em 07/02/2020
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Accent on Bamboo (Album of 1960)
Pop - Lançado por Weird Music - Exotica em 31/10/2018
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The Space Age Collection; Exotica, Volume 5 (Stereo)
Lounge - Lançado por PROFOUND em 07/02/2020
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Far East Lounge Exotica Jazz Moods
Jazz - Lançado por Jazz City Records em 01/12/2014
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The Exotic World of Tak Shindo: Brass and Bamboo
World - Lançado por SINETONE AMR em 16/11/2015
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The Exotic World of Tak Shindo: Far East Goes Western
World - Lançado por SINETONE AMR em 16/11/2015
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Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo
Latin America - Lançado por SINETONE AMR em 25/01/2012
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