BONDAGE FRUIT IV

The masters of Japanese Zeuhl boldly dropped their vocalists for their fourth album and shifted their style to include blues and psychedelia but started with the funky opening of Minus One. Zeuhl is admittedly on the backburner in this riffy jazz jam that wouldn't be out of place as an old-school cop drama soundtrack. Prayer goes a bit downbeat and slow blues, before there's some quirky and brilliant bluegrass themed spacey jamming in Screen Game. Cowboys from Kobaia! The best track in my view though is Storm Bird Storm Dreamer. A rapid acoustic guitar strum sets a bed for a 12 minute progressive and tribal sounding spacey jam. Song Bank though attempts to do similar as an instrumental space jam but is perhaps a bit too long and a bit too chaotic. Finally Old Blind cat returns to the fairly unique psychedelic bluegrass blend with a bit of chanting to go with. Not really zeuhl, but certainly quirky enough to be related to that genre, and a decent album for anyone a fan of trippy space rock, jazz fusion, and blending of unusual styles.