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DamoXt7942
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And in Shodoshima Island is a very large Buddha ... called "White Buddha", not related to Acid Mothers Temple. Wonderful view from this Buddha's neckbeads. Please come on a trip to Shodoshima Island, Japan someday! Edited by DamoXt7942 - July 22 2010 at 02:00 |
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SaltyJon
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I would love to...first I need to get a job which can fund such an expedition.
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DamoXt7942
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Oh, anyway, how about Musica Transonic for your turf RIO / Avant? |
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SaltyJon
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I still haven't checked out any Musica Transonic, but I know there are some on our team who have.
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This sounds AWESOME and I totally wish I had $33 to buy this album Couldn't even find any youtube links to preview it. The only japanese prog I'm familiar with is Art of Life by X Japan. I dig it quite a bit though. I'm surprised there isn't more prog coming from there. These guys are awesome though: |
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I do prefer Japanese soysauce, darker and more flavor
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DamoXt7942
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Just like SEMI, let me recommend another Fukuoka-based psychedelic outfit!
(Sorry no artist picture is available ... ) SANJUUJINKAKU NO INU were formed in early 1990s as a four-piece garage-psychedelic rock band in Fukuoka, Japan. The playmaker Shunji ENOKI (guitar, voices), based on his experiences cultivated in his previous band Chuu-Buranko, gushed out his original garage-stoner psychedelic outskirt with his exploded guitar sounds and grotesque lyrics. In 1998 they spread their debut noisebomb 'Kaibutsu Mirai' assembled for a year like a jigsaw puzzle with various material almost only in Fukuoka, their home turf. Fortunately their motivation for bizarre psychedelia, never declined easily, could be crystallized as their second album 'Kaimetsu Rensa' in 2004. We can understand evidently their exploded play could make the audience deaf. Kaimetsu Rensa (2004) - SANJUUJINKAKU NO INU Wonderful mixture with doomy-stoner, dreamy psychedelic merry-go-round and weird, rotten-flavoured lyrics - we can hear their fascinating inferno all around "Kaimetsu Rensa", and this should be the final music purpose of SANJUUJINKAKU NO INU. Simple and deeply heavy riffs, exploded guitar and rhythm section sounds & noises upon the riffs, and Shunji's funky, freaky, drunky, sticky voices upon his eerie lyrics - these all are their identities and appearances (Jinkaku in Japanese). By them, all the world around us listeners can be warped as a motley coloured psychedelia art ... but mysteriously, some poppy essence can come to us from such a perverse jogrock. This inexpressive but richly-matured atmosphere can be heard in such as the second track "Omocha No heitai", surprisingly with rhythmic, violent, impudent and often speedily prudent appearances - various faces. Shunji's crazy shouting vocal style under grunge-shoegaze-spotlighted loud sounds & noises is around us absolutely. On the contrary, plaintive and simply flat down-tempo footprints are in the following one "Nureinu". "Hai No Ranchi" seems to be a violent, wonderfully aggressive Pink Floydish Space Rock. Based on the similar heavy 'n' crazy explosion, they can show various doggy faces in this album. Until the last one "Karappo No Ro" we should be kicked and knocked out again and again completely by their colourful earthquake. Please so please enjoy this album with wearing earplugs. The inner sleeve of Kaimetsu Rensa ... what an eerie view and lyrics! Thank you for reading this blog. |
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DamoXt7942
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These are wonderful albums, thank you for sharing the information
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Keishiro, I see that you're at least partially familiar with the band Rovo. I've just ordered Tonic 2001, as it's the only one available here in the States for a decent price. I've enjoyed the tracks available to stream on their PA page as well.
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And finally Inomata Takeshi & Sound L.T.D. (Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited) have been in our library.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5749 Thanks Slava-san and honganji-san for your strong support! |
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I plan to check out Condor next - I loved the sample available here at PA. The only problem is finding it for a reasonable price here in the US. |
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Sorry for my long absence but now I'm bound by my real work ... and hot summer in Japan.
Okay let me shout finely here! The STARS ... another psychedelic pioneer in Japan Another real Japanese psychedelia after White Heaven disbanded. After releasing four albums as a leader of a Japanese psychedelic rock pioneer WHITE HEAVEN, You ISHIHARA (guitar, voices), renowned as a producer of a Japanese psychedelic band Yura Yura Teikoku, had groped through the foggy music scene for "the real psychedelic rock". He released his first solo album 'Passivite' with his mates Michio KURIHARA (guitar) and Chiyo KAMEKAWA (bass) and this event could be how it all started ... in 1999 finally You, Michio, Chiyo, and Ken ISHIHARA (drums) formed The STARS, a real Japanese psychedelic outfit in the next generation. The STARS released one EP 'Today' (2001) and two full albums 'Will' (2004) and 'Perfect Place To Hideaway' (2005) but upon You's own label Pedal Records MySpace page they announced their disbandment in 2008 shortly. Today (2001) - The STARS' debut mini album Can we realize what You ISHIHARA had groped for in the mini album Today. What You had tried to do in WHITE HEAVEN might be exploration and development of Japanese guitar-based psychedelic rock, and indeed the first album "Out" says so, without any suspicion. But please consider more, and we may find he might want to play more complex, more growling psychedelia rather than simple one. Yes listen to this "Today" and much perverse, complex melody line with You's growling and trailing voices in such seemingly simple phrases can jump into our brain directly and straightly. And you know, guess it may be very rare The STARS should be such a "crudely" guitar-fronted psychedelic rock all over the world ... in other words, this is crudely You's band featuring their loud, rampant, aggressive guitar solos and his rumblin' voices. We can understand this fact obviously listening only to the first track "Today". Very tense, very sensitive but very dynamic, amazing one. The strained atmosphere is gonna change upon the next stage. "Bavard" is a bit pop, easy-listening, delightful but slightly bluesy rock number ... it sounds so in the former part. However don't be deceived. There are lots of eccentric and snaking (snailing?) elements in such a simplified dimension. Suppose these elements might be deeply in You's mind? Weird, very weird. The last "Wind In Three Quarter" is a straight and simple rock tune, less progressive though. Maybe closer to ones in White Heaven era methinks, but at the same time You might not have such an attitude that he leave such a previous (older) style. This "Today" is EP so it should be tough case for us to understand their real thought about psychedelic rock but we can enjoy this one undoubtedly. Thank you for reading this blog. |
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Hello, and sorry for my long long absence here ... but I've come back, with a wonderful Japanese Proto-prog album.
JACKS, a prototype outfit in Japanese Psychedelic Progressive Rock world In 1965, a student of Wako High School (Tokyo, Japan) Yoshio HAYAKAWA with his mates formed a three-piece folk band Nightingale, the roots of JACKS. Soon after appearing in TV folk show in summer 1966, they changed their band name into JACKS. In May 1967 JACKS' members and music style could be confirmed by Yoshio HAYAKAWA (voices, guitar), Haruo MIZUHASHI (guitar, voices), Takasuke KIDA (drums, percussion, flute), and Hitoshi TANINO (bass). From 1967 to 1969 periodically they played host to live concerts called Jacks Show and released the first single 'Vacant World' in March and the same-titled debut album in September 1968. In those days these stuffs could not be approved at all around Japan for reasons of much progressiveness and less commercialism, despite of appreciation by very few psychedelic freaks. Although Hiro TSUNODA (drums, percussion; later formed Food Brain, Strawberry Path / Flied Egg) tried to strengthen their rhythm section in the end of 1968, sadly they were disbanded in August 1969 a while before releasing their second (and last) album 'Jacks Super Session' (1969). JACKS have been much approved by younger musicians since early 1970s as a prototype outfit in Japanese Psychedelic Progressive Rock and Acid Folk scene. Vacant World (1968) - JACKS' debut album Exactly remarkably shocked by my first listening to this album - and at the same time what a wonder that such a psychedelic progressive outfit could be alive in Japan, short-lived though. I'm amazed at this album's freshness, never discoloured even over 40 years after. JACKS could not live long in the end of 1960s and we can understand easily - they had kept their policy and originality not to accommodate themselves to commercialism or popularity (on the contrary their policy itself might disband them in the following year in my humble opinion). An intense impact or shock can come just from the beginning - the first track "Marianne", that can knock violently us down with by eccentrically whacked out drums & percussion technique by Takasuke, a psychedelic fuzzy guitar solo by Haruo, a simple but heavily deep bass creation by Hitoshi, and especially crazy Yoshio's lead vocal. By this tune only, we can realize the reason why they must be called as an Underground Rock Band ... over 40 years ago. Basically the eccentric music attitude of JACKS might be constructed by the frontman Yoshio HAYAKAWA methinks and his sticky stony stormy garagey voices could pollute (very cheap and cheesy) late-60s Japanese Rock world I guess - naturally they could not get any adaptation anyway. Indeed there are some poppy (Japanese Group Sounds-ish as it is said) songs like "Love Generation", but let me say Yoshio's critically mind-expanding voices and their lethal lyrics should continually possess psychoneurosis. Twin perverse guitar sounds by Yoshio and Haruo can remind me Eiji Kikuchi's sharp-edged vibrant guitar in Apryl Fool. "Vacant World", already released as their debut single half a year before (wonder why they had released such a ghostly depressive song as the first shot), is a very impressive one featuring Takasuke's floating flowering flute, eerie guitar solos by two guitarists, and Yoshio's near-death voices ... oops they may kill me seriously as honestly I say. Hitoshi's production "Bara - Manji" can be characterized by a loud guitar solo and funky voices - pester stickily, very doggedly. In the last "500 Miles From The Sky" Yoshio's narration (depressive too) and Takasuke's quiet keyboard sounds can take us into another sky - the heaven. Can we stop breathing till the end of the album? No. Whatever everybody says, please listen to this terrific album - you can enjoy, and understand the dawn of Japanese psychedelic Progressive Rock. Vacant World (1968) - JACKS' debut single Thank you for reading this blog. |
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Good luck guy. |
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