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BrufordFreak 
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How 'bout listing your all-time favorite Prog Rock albums from Japan/Japanese artists?
I'm thinking: 1. Ryuichi Sakamoto Illustrated Music Encyclopedia (Crossover) 2. Mr. Sirius Barren Dream (Eclectic) 3. Hiromi's Sonicbloom Time Control (Jazz-Rock Fusion) 4. KBB Lost and Found (Jazz-Rock Fusion) 5. Bondage Fruit V - Skin (Zeuhl) 6. Pazzo Fanfano di Musica Pazzo Fanfano di Musica (Symphonic) 7. (tie) Bondage Fruit I (Zeuhl) Bondage Fruit II (Zeuhl) 9. OOIOO Taiga (RIO/Avant Garde) 10. Koenji Hyakkei Nivraym (Zeuhl) 11. Mono Nowhere, Now Here (Post Rock) 12. Toe For Long Tomorrow (Post Rock) 13. Koenji Hyakkei Angherr Shisspa (Zeuhl) 14. Ryuichi Sakamoto Chasm (Electronic) Honorable Mentions: Mr. Sirius Dirge (Crossover) Mono The Last Dawn (Post Rock) Kenso II (Jazz-Rock Fusion) Electric Asturius Trinity (New Age/Symphonic) Ain Soph Hat and Field (Neo Prog) Midas Beyond the Clear Air (Symphonic/Neo Prog) Toe Hear Now (Post Rock) Mono You Are There (Post Rock) Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Post Rock)
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Posted: May 09 2021 at 19:05 |
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1 - Shingetsu - "Shingetsu" (1979) Symphonic Rcok influenced by genesis, really beautiful
2 - Asturias - "Birds Eye View" (2004) Prog folk, chamber music, another gem!! 3 - Mono - "Hymn To The Immortal Wind" (2009) post rock, my favo of this great band! 4 - Kenso - "Kenso II" (1982) symphinic rock, they sound like a mix between Rousseau, Asia Menor and Camel 5 - Ryuchi Sakamoto - "1996" (1996), chamber music and minimalism, my favo album,, piano, cello and violin, really love this work, ill recommend 6 - Vermillion Sands - "Water Blue" (1987) If you like Renaissance check it out!! 7 - TEE - "The Earth Explorer" (2009) symphonic and fussion, really great album 8 - Akira Ishikawa a& Count Buffalos - "Electrum" (1970) Avant gard jazz, complex and amazing arregements 9 - Kimio Mizutani - "A Path Through Haze" (1971) jazz meets progresive rock meets psych, great album! 10 - Toe - "For Long Tommorrow" (2009) Math/Post Rock, one of my favorites of the genre.
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 04:02 |
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I love Koenji Hyakkei but what about Ruins?
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nick_h_nz
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 04:19 |
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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.
Birushanah Bondage Fruit Boris Mark de Clive-Lowe Daimonji Early Cross Guevnna Koenjihyakkei Korekyojinn Loszeal Merzbow Mono OOIOO Ruins Ryuchi Sakamoto Sigh Tricot Yama Warashi Yuka & Chronoship |
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 04:23 |
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Anything Casiopea.
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 05:27 |
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Sigh- "Imaginary Sonicscape" Koenji Hyakkei- "Angherr Shisspa" Koenji Hyakkei- "Dhorimviskha" Acid Mothers Temple- "Pataphisical Freak Out Mu!!" Hiromi's Uehara- "Time Control"
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 07:18 |
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I only have one Japanese psych album in my CD collection:-
Flied Egg - Dr. Siegel's Flied Egg Shooting Machine (1972) My all-time favourite is:- Far Out - Nihonjin (1973)
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 11:42 |
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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 |
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 11:49 |
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I would say currently my favorite japanese band is Kenso with a bunch of stellar albums like Sparta, Yume No Oka and Fabulis...such an amazing mix of prog and fusion!
Next are: Il Berlione - sadly one of the most obscure bands around here, they were active in the 90's crossing all kinds of genres like avant, symphonic, fusion and more. Highly recommended! Favorite albums of other bands: Le Silo - 8.8 Happy Family - Toscco Bi Kyo Ran - Parallax Bondage Fruit - II Cosmos Factory - Black Hole Far Out - Nihonjin Yonin Bayashi - Isshoku Sokuhatsu Honorable mentions: Shingetsu Asturias Sigh Ruins Mr. Sirius Ain Soph |
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 11:56 |
Damn! Forgot about the excellent DCPRG and of course the amazing De Lorians
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 12:47 |
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- Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai. I ADORE this album and consider it to be one of my best finds over the last twenty years. I also like the live version of this. It's quite funky and strange, and reminds me of Barbarella's line that "a good many dramatic situations begin with screaming". One of my personal faves in PA for side one especially. - J. A. Seazer/ J.A. Caesar - I love Kokkyo Junreika and Jashumon. It's a sort of experimental psychedelic rock with avant-folk qualities. Love it. - Haruomi Hosono - Cochin Moon. I love the Bollywood and electronic qualities. - Phew - Signals. I don't think this is in PA; suggested it once, but it's a Krautrock related post-punk and experimental rock album with a Can relation. - Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi - Ash in the Rainbow. This is not in PA, although Haco performed with After Dinner which will feature next and is in Avant Prog. I would describe it as an Avant Prog related art/ progressive pop and electroacoustic album - After Dinner - Paradise of Replica. Not a much loved album by many but I love it and it is in the Avant Prog category here and is on the Art Pop and Vanat Pop side of things. - Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun. I think it's in Krautrock here, and is a Krautrockish experimental psych rock band that hails from Osaka (where I once resided). I think it's a brillant album and rather eminds me in part of Xui Xiu. - Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld. A sort of quite modern psychedelic folk-rock album. - Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd / Masahiko Satoh - Yamataifu (a quite out there and experimetnal jazz-rock with big band qualities). - Masahikoh Satoh and the Soundbreakers - Amalgamation (Kokotsu No Showa Genroku). I may be a bit busy, but I liked this Avant Proggish album a lot and discovered it at the same time as the earlier mentioned Yamataifu album. -Kitaro - Oasis. Electronic. This is something of sentimental fave of mine that I first heard while living near Cairns, Australia. I was stayng in a beautiful beach front house and often liked to drift off to sleep while listening to this. The earlier debut is excellent. Kitaro did some, I think, horrible reworkings of this and other music. - - Stomu Yamash'ta - Come To The Edge: Floating Music. A jazz-rock album. Also love Bondage Fruit and many others listed. |
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 14:00 |
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Koenji would have 4 in the top 10 & Happy Family 3 so I'll spread it around a bit.
Koenji Hyakkei - Viva Koenji!
Bondage Fruit - s/t OOIOO - Taiga Happy Family - Tosco Amygdala - Complex Combat Plastic Dogs - Growl Ruins - Burning Stone Sax Ruins - Blimmguass Asturias - Fractals Korekyojinn - Tundra |
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 14:04 |
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I've only dipped my toes into the Japanese prog scene and still have several important bands that I haven't listened to yet (like Ruins and some of the other avant acts)
No ranking, just sorted alphabetically... Ars Nova - The Goddess of Darkness Asturias - Fractals Baraka - Inner Resonance Bellaphon - Firefly Bi Kyo Ran - Kyobo Na Ongaku (A Violent Music) The Black Mages - The Black Mages Cosmos Factory - An Old Castle of Transylvania Earthbound Papas - Dancing Dad Far East Family Band - Parallel World Gerard - Sighs of the Water Kadath - Noises Out of Space KBB - Lost and Found Koenjihyakkei - Viva Koenji Outer Limits - The Scene of Pale Blue Providence - There Once Was a Night of "Choko-Muro" the Paradise Social Tension - MacBethia Teru's Symphonia - Clockworked Earth Vermilion Sands - Water Blue |
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Posted: May 10 2021 at 14:12 |
As you and I often have quite a lot of shared musical interests, I wonder if you could look up at my list, and based on that suggest what you might think I would like from your list. Or should I just check them all out? I’ll definitely check out Happy Family if three of their albums would make you pr top ten! |
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My Nippon Top 10:-
COSMOS FACTORY - An Old Castle of Transylvania (1973) FAR EAST FAMILY BAND - The Cave Down to the Earth (1975) FAR EAST FAMILY BAND - Nipponjin (1975) FAR OUT - Nihonjin (1975) FLIED EGG - Dr. Siegel's Flied Egg Shooting Machine (1972) FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND - Anywhere (1970) FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND - Satori (1971) OSAMU KITAJIMA - Dragon King (1981) OSAMU KITAJIMA - Passages II (1987) STOMU YAMASHTA'S GO PROJECT - Go (featuring Steve Winwood) (1976)
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Some of my favourites in a very rough/approximate order: Hiromi - Alive Wha-Ha-Ha - Shinutokiwa Betsu Salle Gaveau - Alloy Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Beyond Standard Nuito - Unutella Tipographica - God Says I Can't DanceDe Lorians - De Lorians Harpy - Speech On The Radio Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym Mr. Sirius - Barren Dream Katra Turana - Katra Turana Ruins - Ruins III Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa Tricot - A N D Il Berlione - Il Berlione Dragon Blue - Hades Park
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^ Mr. Sirius is on my latest Prog Line playlist, so I'm looking forward to giving it a listen sometime soon.
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There’s a heck of a lot of bands and artists mentioned so far. Here they are ranked by number of people mentioning them (rather than how often they are mentioned, since some people listed more than one album from the same band/artist). I figure I’ll use this list to explore the most mentioned names that I’m not already familiar with.
7 Times Mentioned: Koenjihyakkei 5 Times Mentioned: Asturias Bondage Fruit Ruins 4 Times Mentioned: OOIOO 3 Times Mentioned: Cosmos Factory De Lorians Hiromi Uehara / Sonicbloom Kenso Mono Mr Sirius Ryuichi Sakamoto Sigh 2 Times Mentioned: Ain Soph Bi Kyo Yan Date Course Pengagon Royal Garden Far East Family Band Far Out Flower Travelling Band Geinoh Yamashirogumi Happy Family Haruomi Hosono Il Berlione KBB Korekyojinn Shingetsu Stomo Yamash’ta Toe Tricot Vermillion Sands 1 Times Mentioned: Acid Mothers Temple After Dinner Akira Ishikawa Amygdala Ars Nova Baraka Bellaphon Birushanah Black Mages Boredoms Boris Casiopeia Mark de Clive-Lowe Daimonji Dragon Blue Early Cross Earthbound Papas Flied Egg Gerard Ghost Guevnna Hako + Sakamoto Hiromichi Harper J.A. Seazer / J.A. Caesar Kadath Katra Turana Kimio Mizutani Kitaro Le Silo Loszeal Masahikoh Satoh Merzbow Midas Nuito Osama Kitajima Outer Limits Pazzo Fanfano di Musica Phew Plastic Dogs Providence Ronin Arkestra Salle Gaveau Sax Ruins Social Tension The Taj Mahal Travellers TEE Teru’s Symphonia Tipographica Toshiyuki Miyama Wha-Ha-Ha Yama Warashi Yonin Bayashi Yuka & The Chronoship |
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Posted: May 12 2021 at 09:16 |
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^ Strangely, I haven't heard of the artists that were mentioned seven and five times, until now that is.
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Posted: May 12 2021 at 09:28 |
You'd probably like Asturias but Koenjihyakkei, Ruins & Bondage Fruit are heavily in the noise, avant, zeuhl, brutal arena. I doubt they'll be your cup of tea. Ruins are considered genre defining in Brutal Prog. Koenjihyakkei similarly in Japanese Zeuhl.
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