Kazemachi Roman

Kazemachi Roman
Kazemachi Roman
	Kazemachi Roman cover, clockwise from top left: Matsumoto, Suzuki, Hosono and Ohtaki, illustrated by Kazuhiko Miyaya
Studio album by Happy End
Released	November 20, 1971
Recorded	May 11 – September 12, 1971
Studio	Mouri Studio
Genre	Folk rock
Length	37:14
Label	URC Records
Producer	Happy End
Happy End chronology
Singles from Kazemachi Roman
	"Hana Ichi Monme"; Released: December 10, 1971;

Kazemachi Roman (Japanese: 風街ろまん, Hepburn: Kazemachi Roman, literally "Wind City Romance") is the second album by Japanese folk rock band Happy End, released on URC Records in 1971. In this concept album, Happy End attempted to paint a musical picture of Tokyo before the 1964 Summer Olympics, through which sweeping changes transformed the city forever.^[1]

^ Sisario, Ben (2017-10-27). "The Hidden History of Japan's Folk-Rock Boom". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-05. “The band’s 1971 album ‘Kazemachi Roman,’ a classic of the genre, describes with a shrug how the Tokyo of their childhood was being swept away and replaced by a high-tech metropolis.“

[Sisario-1] Sisario, Ben (2017-10-27). "The Hidden History of Japan's Folk-Rock Boom". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-05. “The band’s 1971 album ‘Kazemachi Roman,’ a classic of the genre, describes with a shrug how the Tokyo of their childhood was being swept away and replaced by a high-tech metropolis.“

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