Brown Sugar is the stage name of Japanese musician Ken Kawashima, who has always been a scholar of Chicago blues For years he has devoted all his talent and efforts to preserve it But now he has done a complete turn to his music, recording a hard tasty album with a totally wild and chaotic repertoire he performs with audacity and great skill, that covers from Texas blues in the path of Lightnin’ Hopkins or Frankie Lee Sims to the hypnotic blues that has lately been defined as Mississippi Hill Country Blues in the path of R L Burnside, a bluesman Sugar deeply admires But if the music is important, no less important are the song lyrics that have been mainly inspired in the unfortunate facts that happened on 9th August 2014, when a young black man called Michael Brown was murdered by a white police agent In a book of folksongs gathered by Alan and John Lomax, Sugar Brown discovered a song entitled Poor Lazarus that told the same story that happened to Michael Brown but, of course, with other characters and in other time After listening to it, Sugar Brown decided to do this album The blues Sugar and his musicians play are sweet, dark, heartbreaking, rude and wild My advice is to let yourself be caught by his music and get lost into these hidden dark sound paradises