Hako Yamasaki - Human Nature/山崎ハコ - 人間まがい (1979) (vinyl version)

1. Who Calls/Dare ga yobu/誰が呼ぶ - 0:00
2. Siblings Double Suicide/Kyō dai Shinjū/きょうだい心中 - 4:27
3. Purple Flowers/Murasaki no Hana/ムラサキの花 - 10:13
4. Crow/Karasu/からす - 14:56
5. Curse/Noroi/呪い - 20:32
6. A Forgery Human/Ningen-Magai/人間まがい - 24:52
7. Darkness/Kurayami/暗闇 - 28:39
8. Three Flowers/Mitsunohana/三つの花 - 35:04
9. Love My Heart Only/Kokoro dake Aishite/心だけ愛して - 38:23

Hako Yamasaki returns with another drinking album. She always had songs among the depressive nature of her work that would lighten the mood (Change Of Pace off Tobimasu for instance). It wasn't until her fourth album, 流れ酔い唄, that this really veered into pop tendencies, and only on the final track really. Here on Human Nature, that sound is refined wonderfully to coincide with Hako's staple melancholy nature. It's really some of her best vocal work yet. The opening track has this wonderful 80s sounding guitar picking up the slack when she isn't singing, and boy she can sing as loud and beautiful as ever. In fact this album has the most guitar wankery of her work thus far, your mileage may vary on how much you enjoy that. Purple Flowers recalls Gypsy Rose off of Indigo Poetry with its groovyness. The title track may be the standout for most, taking the groove sound of Purple Flowers and going for a real dancing track. Three Flowers recalls Lullaby from Tobimasu, but even more longing and forlorn.

Kokoro Dake Aishite goes all out: Piano, strings, guitar, and Hako Yamasaki sounding her most exhausted yet, bordering on crying. Eloquent, powerful. It's one of the best Hako tracks I've heard so far.

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