Yoshio Kimura – A Time For Us: Movie Themes (1978) [Reissue 2017] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

The virtuoso Japanese guitarist, Yoshio Kimura has the skilled performance techniques but never show off it on purpose, manifesting the charm of one generation master. The sound of guitar is profound, giving you a sense of dreamlike and wonderful listening feelings, which can be regarded as an example recording for other guitar performances. As title says, this album features the music from the movies performed in an juicy instrumental arrangements.

Yoshio Kimura liked music when he was a little child, and the beautiful music is his lifetime pursuit. In his early musical career, Kimura just played jazz. Because jazz is full of passion, dynamic and personality; Besides, the unique rhythm of jazz and close to the life improvisation is also popular with people, specially favored by active young people. But this kind of music is over passion and exposed personality, which is not in accord with the features of Japanese contained, introverted temperament. So later Kimura chose to play folk songs which were more suitable for the Japanese national character, and won the whole of Japan, Southeast Asia and even the people of the world’s favorite. Some people says: Kimura’s performances have become a common memory of the times. Yoshio Kimura is an outstanding performance artist, his works not only exist in the twentieth century Asian music, also will be like our country masterpiece “lofty mountains and flowing water”, as works of the European classical music Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and other musicians, always exist in the eternal love of thousands of households.

Tracklist:

01. A Time For Us
02. The Sound Of Silence
03. Speak Softly Love
04. Johnny Guitar
05. Loss Of Love
06. The Way We Were
07. Gone With The Wind
08. Love Story
09. I Will Wait For You
10. Free As The Wind
11. 13 Jours En France
12. Love Is A Many – Splendored Thing
13. Manha De Carnaval
14. A Summer Place
15. The Third Man
16. East Of Eden
17. Live For Life
18. A Man And A Woman