Ike Reiko - Kokotsu No Sekai

Label: Tiliqua Records
Format: CD, Album
Released: 1971/2005
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: JPop, Rock, Library music, Early Electronic
Quality: FLAC
Size: 208 MB

Tracklist:

1. Reiko Ike — Onna Wa Sore O Gaman Dekinai (3:20)
2. Reiko Ike — Yokohama Tasogar (2:47)
3. Reiko Ike — Memai (Shiseikatsu) (2:37)
4. Reiko Ike — Ame Ga Yandara (3:03)
5. Reiko Ike — Yoake No Scat (3:03)
6. Reiko Ike — Sasurai No Guitar (2:43)
7. Reiko Ike — Watashi To Iu Na No Onna (2:40)
8. Reiko Ike — Ame No Hi No Blues (3:08)
9. Reiko Ike — Koi No Dorei (2:55)
10. Reiko Ike — Keiken (2:40)
11. Reiko Ike — Tenshi Ni Narenai (2:49)
12. Reiko Ike — Ai No Kizuna (3:22)

This disc is one of a series of releases from the stunning Tiliqua label, and documents an area of Japanese culture most of us know very little about – erotica. Yup you heard me right, and although many of the internet-savvy amongst us will be more than familiar with Japan’s strange take on the world of the naked lady often being compromised by something tenticular and from a distant planet, this is an era more focused on titillation and shattered innocence than anything you might find knocking around on a Hentai babes calendar. This particular lady named Ike Reiko was only a mere 17 years of age when she recorded this record, and was already a star in the world of Japanese erotic movies. Yup in that age old tradition of lying about your age, Miss Reiko did it to slide her way into the seedy world of porn – not exactly buying a packet of fags and a 6 pack of Strongbow is it? Apparently these movies were somewhere in-between the girl-gang revenge movies of the Blaxploitation era and the Women in prison style savage eroticism and dubbed ‘Pink Violence’, with tooled up honeys wearing just little enough to bare their ample breasts while they laid waste to the enemy (men?). I can’t say I’ve managed to track down any of these movies but after reading about them I feel almost duty bound to observe them closer, I mean it’s my job as a reviewer surely to make sure I have as much background as possible is it not? Funnily enough then, with all the tough-gal image the music is pretty darn life-affirming, but don’t think for a second you’re getting an easy listening album here – this is about as sexual as music can get. Throw ‘French Kiss’ out of the window and kiss goodbye to your Serge Gainsbourg records goodbye, Ike Reiko is more sizzling than a branding iron as it makes it’s mark on the farmer’s herd. The sex is literally dripping from every note on this record – I’m told that the style is ‘Iroke Kayokyoku’ or erotic kayokyoku (kayokyoku being a style of Japanese pop) but the sort of naive jazz and pseudo spy theme movie music is all draped in a shroud of sexual shouts, screams and coos from the clearly excited Reiko. One must assume that she was in some kind of state of euphoria in the recording studio from the evidence on offer here, either that or she’s a pretty realistic faker – it’s a smouldering collision and that’s about all that needs to be said. ‘Kokotsu no Sekai’ has to be one of the finest gifts for the music fan in search of that killer oddity – not only is it a fabulous record but it’s so wonderfully presented with gorgeous artwork and extensive liner notes, I can’t think of a saucier and more appetising delight this Christmas.

e of Japan's rarest erotic artifacts in stunning condition – best copy that will ever cross your path. Unbelievable, here you have the HOLY GRAIL of Japanese Iroke gems, copies just never turn up – until now. Rare does not even come remotely close to describe the scarcity of this disc, the most depraved erotic and sexiest disc ever to have been put down on wax. In 1971, the same year as her big screen debut, Ike recorded the album Kokotsu no Sekai for Teichiku Records. In spite of her tender years (having just turned 17), she single-handedly transformed the album's conventional track list of covers and kayokyoku melodies into an unprecedented maelstrom of eroticism and sexual depravity. Ike's vocals breathe with an astonishing naturalness, dripping honeyed and golden-tongued into the ears with angelic ease. Her erotic presence flutters across a multitude of erogenous non-verbal modes — moaning and uttered shrieks of ecstatic pleasure, sibilating suffocated whispers of excitement, and grunting and growling like a bitch in heat. When Ike does sing, it is in a subdued, husky voice about sex, submissive love and seduction. Although all the songs are cover versions, Ike confines herself to whispering but a small part of the original lyrics, spending the remainder on guttural erotic incantations backed by the desolate sound of a cheesy organ and a muffled yet ecstatic mellifluous vocal sound that is reminiscent of the 13th Floor Elevators' Tommy Hall breathing down a jug. The entire recording is suffused with a unique atmosphere, a ripe and heady Japanese eroticism now sadly overwhelmed by the intrusive and infelicitous import of cheap Westernized thrills and assorted uneuphonious cultural junk. Nevertheless, Kokotsu no Sekai launched Ike as the nightingale of the “pink new wave”.
If we were doubted that the previous was Japanese psych porn ,this is 100% psychedelic porn music,yet very beautiful!

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