Japanese Progressive Rock presented by DamoX

Sheavy wrote: Keishiro, how come Japan hogs all things awesome?

Hahhaha Alex, very crazie!

Lots of mad shows have been launched on stage in Namba Bears, Osaka, produced by Seiichi Yamamoto (ex-Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba, ROVO)

DamoXt7942 wrote: Lord Jagged wrote: Ghost seem very interesting indeed. I will check them out.  As for Ghost, let me recommend firstly Overture: Live in Nippon Yusen Soko 2006.

Can't agree with it. This CD+DVD album is absolutely different from all their other works. It is good in its own way but very far from the band's usual high-class folk-psychedelia/ It's a kind of deep dive into free-improv meditation that becomes closer to classic Ghost only in the very end of the only 56 minute track...

I would recommend to start from their self-titled debut and then listen all their next works. One of my favorite modern bands...

DamoXt7942 wrote: J. A. Caesar has been added in Progarchives as a Psych / Space resident a while before. Anyway, let me recommend also a soundtrack titled "Den'en Ni Shisu" produced by J. A. Caesar, although this one had been created under the moniker of Tenjo-Sajiki, not J. A. Caesar solo. Very weird, very eccentric, and very fantastic really ... a splendid work that can let us understand Japanese mysterious theatre plays.

I could give it a listening, on the sole hint of the cover...

Huh, and also on the name of J.A. Caesar.

 

DamoXt7942 wrote: Yeah Dmitry, "Kokkyo Junreika" remastered version will be released at the end of March, 2013 it's said.

It's interesting that this reissue has completely different design

 

Hello, every Japanese prog freak.



Already posted a live performance review thread about Le Silo and Djamra, and let me mention here about NEXT ORDER, another experienced Japanese progressive rock project.

A Japanese heavy jazz rock combo NEXT ORDER were founded as a twin-guitar-oriented quartet in August 2002, by two Nagoya-based musicians - Yuji MUTO (guitar), Atsutomo ISHIGAKI (bass) - and two Osaka-based ones - Takumi SEINO (guitar), Hiroshi 'Gori' MATSUDA (drums). They've gigged with lots of progressive artists like Uz Jsme Doma or Gongzilla since their early days, whilst they signed a formal contract with Lolo Records in 2004 for releasing their material all around the world. Through their borderless musical style amongst heavy rock, jazz, fusion, avantgarde, progressive rock, etc. etc., they've launched their original soundscape toward the audience upon stage. Evidently they've placed emphasis upon a close bond between the audience and themselves, and upon live material ... all of their creations are live-recorded ones.

NEXT ORDER (left to right; Yuji MUTO, Atsutomo ISHIGAKI, Hiroshi 'Gori' MATSUDA, and Takumi SEINO)

Started playing a cool, jazzy, fascinating song, in that we had got immersed at once.


Takumi with full passion


Gori, a strict rhythm launcher


Cool Yuji and deep / hev Atsutomo


Next Order @ Takatsuki Jazz Street (Osaka, Japan) in 2009

Sometimes got 'eavy, sometimes smooth ... wow, chameleonic world really.



So happy to introduce them here ... thank you for reading this blog.

^ Ah Pierre, that might be my spirit poppin' out of my body.

My favourite Album by Teno-Sajiki



Shintokumaru

There are even some Zeuhl moments on this one. Love it.

South Korean market is very small in comparison with Japan. South Korea's population is approximately 50 million about 42% of Japan. But it is said that music market is 1of 10 ~ 15 of Japan.

Thanks honganji-san. Checked S. Korean psych scene a while before (especially San Ul Lim, that disappointed me).

Marko, N.E.X.T is interesting for me, dunno they can be accepted in PA though.

Hi, Nippon fans.

Already posted an article about singles of KIKAGAKU MOYO (Geometric Patterns), and they finally have released an eponymous debut EP upon May 1, 2013!


KIKAGAKU MOYO (Geometric Patterns)

KIKAGAKU MOYO (Geometric Patterns) were were founded as a "tribal psychedelic" sextet in summer 2012 by Go KUROSAWA and Tomo KATSURADA at Takadanobaba (Tokyo, Japan). Current line up is - Tomo Katsurada (guitar, voices), Daoud Popal (guitar), Ryu Kurosawa (sitar), Angie Gotopo (theremin, voices), Kotsuguy (bass), and Go Kurosawa (drums, voices).

Kikagaku Moyo (2013) - KIKAGAKU MOYO

Oh what's happening, wonder why KIKAGAKU MOYO have played stuffs easy to understand.



I've got blown by their weird Kraut-ish Oriental edges when I listened to their first single for the first time. The unrefined, non-united atmospheric aggression might squeeze something comfortable into my brain. No objection to say they play acid folk with strong Kosmische initiation upon this EP indeed, but simultaneously I guess they might grab more of folksy acidity with mainstream-y tips.

Fantastic wet, foggy airsound has been created by gracious female voices (sensual, dangerous traps in a sense) based upon specific ethnic freakout psychic folksy agents launched with sitar, theremin, and deep guitars, percussive drums. Quite dreamy especially for acid folk freaks on the psychedelic ground like me. On the contrary, smooth and simple spherical sound body, that can be digested easily in general, should not satisfy Krautrock adherents enough, sad to say.



Oh yes let me say the fourth track "Lazy Stoned Monk" (what a fascinating title!) has completely reminded me eccentricity of 'real Kosmischemuzik' ... quiet but explosive underground beats based upon bubbled synth lesions / mellow guitar riffs, and weird obscurity with dark matter can be called as surrealistic Geometry methinks. Not simply lazy but powerful with strong intention to invade my mind space. This enthusiasm is what I want really.

Got unified compactly upon a part, but such a meditative wave can make us dream that we can grab more hypnotic, more mysterious, more addictive smoke agents particularly on stage. Amazing.

Their Bandcamp


Thank you for reading this blog.

Edited by DamoXt7942 - May 14 2013 at 04:42