Saho Terao - Watashi No Suki Na Roudouka JAPANESE IMPORT (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 07-November-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

Side A
01. Satsume Douzan Koufu Uta
02. Enyamakkagoen
03. Zukubojo
04. Hitotsutose
05. Aragure
06. Hamako Uta
07. Ta Unai
Side B
01. Sesse
02. Kago no Tori yori
03. Shisou no Moriko Uta
04. Sukumo Taue Uta
05. Tsuki nukai sha
06. Itabashi no Bouuchi Uta

This album features 13 carefully selected traditional songs from across Japan, focusing mainly on labor songs—melodies that have long been nurtured through everyday
life and sung with a wide range of emotional expressions. It also includes songs associated with traditional events and lullabies.

Breathing new life into these songs through fresh arrangements, Saho Terao collaborates with musicians such as Reizaburo Adachi, Wataru Iga, Masatomo Utashima,
Utena Kobayashi, Tatsuro Kondo, Choi Jecheol, Kumiko Yabu, Wataru Okuma, Fumiya Otonashi, and Altangerel Undarmaa. The album also features a duet with
Yuta Orisaka on "Aragure" a traditional event song from Iwate.

The songs were discovered during her live tours across the country and through research done for various art projects. Some of the songs have already become familiar
to audiences at her concerts. Despite reflecting harsh realities—such as the struggles of farm labor or the vulnerable positions of women in the workforce—these songs often
carry a humorous tone or feature chant-like, magical refrains. Each one radiates the resilience and dignity that allowed these songs to be passed down through generations.

Following her previous collections "Watashi no Sukina Warabeuta" (2016) and "Watashi no Sukina Warabeuta 2" (2020), this album is another essential piece in
Saho Terao’s effort to preserve and share traditional songs she feels must be remembered.

These songs, born from environments vastly different from contemporary life, were once companions to the physical hardships of labor. Yet carried by the richness of
Japanese rhythm and melodic beauty, they transcend time and space to be passed on to a new generation.