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    Posted: May 17 2009 at 17:02
Hello
Recently I discovered a Japanese progrock band, it sounded very fresh, avantgarde mixed with more ear-friendly sounds :)
The trouble is I lost this band and can't find it now.

I was pretty sure the first track was calles "Circle/Line" but can't find it, maybe there's a mistake in it coming from my bad memory, but im sure the "/" was in title.
The album had 5-6 tracks, bout half of them semi-long ones.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 18:51
DATE COURSE PENTAGON ROYAL GARDEN
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2009 at 03:03
Oo, Dean...more speedy than me Japanese. Shocked
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=16170
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2009 at 03:17
Gonna check this, because I don't think this is the band I was looking for.
The thing I heard had "Circle/Line" as a first track, and this here is split CD, so can you dig it some more?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2009 at 03:49

Circle/Line is the middle track on (I think) three of their albums - perhaps the copy you heard was from vinyl and it was the first track side two.

Other than that I can offer no further help.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2009 at 07:04
don't they work under other names? I thought the thing I listened to was called something Japanese...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2009 at 02:06
hmmm can anyone help me with getting this band?
last.fm has no samples, emule has very little sources...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2009 at 18:48
I told you it wasn't band I was looking for.

THIS is what I was looking for: http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/K/KikuchiMasabumi/Susto_x.html

And there is "Circle/Line" as a first track.

Sorry for disturbing, but this is a great album and I just wanted to share with you all (yeah I know it's not that prog, it's avant-garde jazz but still...enjoy).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 03:42
Ah, nice. Big fan of Kikuchi. While I will start my search for Susto, I'll suggest you'll check out his One Way Traveller from 1982, which actually is progressive jazzrock/fusion (opens with a sidelong monstertrack called Alacalder), and the one of the best jazzreleases I've heard recorded in the 80's.

The two albums I got from the early 70's are both closer to avantgardejazz, though 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 03:46

I assume that the Cirlve/Line track by Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden is a cover as they are both sort of Avant Jazz. I wonder if Naruyoshi Kikuchi of DCPRG is related to Masabumi Kikuchi, grandson maybe?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 03:51
^If so, surely just son will do (he started recording in the late 80's)?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 04:10
Yes, son not grandson Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 05:46
Dean, I didn't know you were a closet Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden fan. LOL

I have an album of theirs somewhere that needs playing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2009 at 06:05
I'm not, I'm just a geek who likes searching stuff out and (trying) to help folk. However, I was impressed by the DCPRG things I managed to hear off the interweb (mainly on YouTube) - I would buy an album, but like a lot of Japanese releases, they are a bit pricey.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 28 2009 at 04:18
well in that case I gotta check Report From Iron Mountain - only it's hard to find it

but I found One Way Traveller and gonna tell you later what I think about it - thanks for info anyway
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2009 at 07:24
so yeah, I found Report From Iron Mountain and yeah, Circle/Line is M. Kikuchi's covered by his son
not that fresh, though
and One Way Traveler is magnificent, especially first track, I strongly recommend it to any avant-garde fan

big thanks to everyone in this thread - long live Prog Archives :)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2009 at 17:15
Originally posted by xneon xneon wrote:


and One Way Traveler is magnificent, especially first track, I strongly recommend it to any avant-garde fan


Glad you like it. I imagine it can safely be reccomended to most prog/jazzfusion-fans too. Its quite melodic, progressive jazzrock, and not really a difficult listen.


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