LE MONDE FABULEUX DES YAMASUKI
Some short audio clips on the label site here. Also some here and longer clips here. Try the song "Yama Yama". WFMU also work out that Banarama indirectly covered on of this album's tracks under the impression it was African.Behold Yamasuki! An aural and visual spectacular of Samurai proportions. Rescued from the ancient ravishes of time this 1971 conceptual masterpiece summons the heaviest 'beats from the East' combined with the psychedelic-sensibilities of the fuzzed-out French pop capital. This is where ye-ye becomes yama-yama...Yamasuki was originally a French/Japanese choreography project designed to bridge the European and Eastern-Asian culture gap through the power of deep and funky music...They enlisted the help of a famous black-belt Judo Master to introduce the tracks with an engaging roar!...Thousands of people were seen 'Doing The Yamasuki' during the summer of 71...'The Yamasuki', believe it or not, was a one-time contender to 'The Monkey' or 'The Mashed Potato'...'Yama-Yama-fever' looked set to take the world by storm.
