Tokyo Rose (album)
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| Studio album by Van Dyke Parks | ||||
| Released | July 1989 | |||
| Genre | Art rock | |||
| Length | 46:24 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Andrew Wickam | |||
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Tokyo Rose is a 1989 album by American musician Van Dyke Parks. The album concerns the intersection between Japanese and American cultures, particularly as reflected in the competitive "Trade War" of the 1980s. The intersection between the two cultures is nowhere more obvious than in the album's first song, "America", an adaptation of "America the Beautiful" with numerous pentatonic shifts characteristic of Japanese music, played on a combination of standard Western instruments and traditional Japanese instruments, such as the biwa and the koto.
All songs written by Van Dyke Parks, except track 1, which is public domain, arranged and adapted by Parks; track 10, Japanese lyrics by Amy Furumoto.
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