Afuma - Songs From The Shore Release:Songs From The Shore Blank Forms he sees "much more of

he sees "much more of the Rhinelander than the Viennese" in Beethoven

In his liner notes

Born in Sarrebourg in 1993

from his recording debut in 1946 on the Bullet and Blue Bonnet labels and his career on the MGM label through to 1962

Afuma - Songs From The Shore Release:Songs From The Shore Blank Forms he sees "much more ofIn Japanese folklore, Afuma indicates a time of day marked by spiritual or mysterious encounter. In Latin, one who inhales. Together as Afuma, Stefan Tcherepnin and Taketo Shimada breathe sepulchral energies into the brooding, cosmic fringes of guitar based song vernacular. Tcherepnin's baritone and Shimada's lap steel guitar intertwine, smearing across world's end horizons that propel Tcherepnin's ragged, foreboding vocal delivery and it's lyrical