Your Favorite Japanese Prog Albums

Hi Drew, nice idea for a thread
I’m so bad at rankings, so I’m just going to mention some faves of mine.

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Structure et Force (Absolute monster of an album mixing contemporary fusion with avant, funk, jazz, electronica and a hip way about it all)
Flower Travelling Band - Satori (Japanese answer to a psychedelic Black Sabbath on shrooms)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan (Big, enormous, mad, folky, scary, out-of-this-world, imaginative, unreal and somehow akin to a Japanese take on a shamanistic album)
OOIOO - Gold & Green (One of the finest modern day Krautrock albums with bells and whistles and all out beautiful wacky feminine touch. This music is made for hipsters, gymnasts, fans of psych and yuhuu)
Haruomi Hosono - Cochin Moon (Electronic classic in my book. Like boarding an elevator entirely made out of sapphires that takes you out into the world and ‘away’)
De Lorians - s/t (Imagine if The Soft Machine started out in Japan...but somehow managed to combine both the psychedelic vibes of the early records together with the all out tumultuous jazz rock of their mid period...and you’re close...and then again not really. These guys took me by storm. I want more!)
The Taj Mahal Travellers - July 15 1972 (Yeah...err..tough nut to crack right there! Go read my incomprehensible review of it )
Loads more where they came from but right now I need food!

Edited by Guldbamsen - May 10 2021 at 11:43

These are the Japanese bands and artists in my collection. Not sure if I can say my favourite albums off the top of my head, for all of them.

1 - Shingetsu - "Shingetsu" (1979) Symphonic Rcok influenced by genesis, really beautiful