Minako Yoshida // Tobira no Fuyu (Box Set IEX)

(Boxed Set, With CD, With Bonus 7", Limited Edition, Poster) Minako Yoshida’s debut album “Tobira no Fuyu”(Showboat / 1973), known as the monumental landmark in Japanese female Singer Song Writer and City Pop history, is reissued as one of the items of 2021 RSD drop in this complete box set with the original gatefold jacket/Obi strip and direct cutting from original master tapes!

Co-produced by Haruomi Hosono (Apryl Fool, Happy End, Yellow Magic Orchestra).

The only Singer-Songwriter style album of hers, different from her later city pop works featuring the brilliant voice described as Japanese Laura Nyro and solid grooves backing with Caramel Mama (Haruomi Hosono, Masataka Matsutoya, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hayashi… the band became Tin Pan Alley.)