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In the 1970s, Kazuki Tomokawa catapulted into Tokyos avant-garde scene with his cathartic and utterly electrifying performances. Straight from the Throat, Tomokawas second album, released in July 1976 by Harvest Records, finds the musician in his truest form: as the a€?screaming philosophera€? he would come to be calleda€'cynical but fair, cheeky and melancholic, and looking at the world with truth-seeking eyes. In Straight from the Throat, Tomokawa shrieks and shouts and wallows with ritualistic abandona€'his avant-folk stylings are cosmic and, at times, well to ground-shaking rock. He speaks of adolescence, passing hearses, and wedding chapel cars in a poem to his younger brother, Tomoharu, and watches ice melt on the Mitane River with springs turn. Tomokawas sound is, as Kiichi Takahara would later dub it, a€?I-musica€?: revelatory and deeply intimate songs that turn to the everyday and the interior. They are portraits of a man in search of meaning, who is taking stubborn control of his life by doing so. As he croons in a€?The Spring Is Here Again Song,a€? a€?Ill drink till Ive had my fill / And fall in love until I die.a€?