Search Sweet Country Miranda Sawyer Akira Kurosawa followed the breakthrough

Akira Kurosawa followed the breakthrough international acclaim for Rashomon (1950) and Ikiru (1952) with this three-and-a-half-hour jidaigeki (period drama) set during Japan’s turbulent 16th century

vinyl deluxe edition on Orange 2LP gatefold jacket with Lyric insert

its spectral parts take the album’s characters through cycles of temptation

Sheila Stern

Torigai Jutaro

Search Sweet Country Miranda Sawyer Akira Kurosawa followed the breakthroughA startling, densely poetic portrait of 1970s Ghana as it emerges from colonial rule. Search Sweet Country follows the lives of an eclectic, interconnected group of Ghanaians living in and around the sprawling, chaotic city of Accra in the mid 1970s. Bringing the city to life in dizzying, lyrical prose, Laing weaves a story filled with bizarre and often melancholy characters an idealistic professor, a lovely young witch, a wide eyed student, a corrupt