Your Favorite Japanese Prog Albums

Big fan of Yuka & Chronoship, Asturias and Kenso.

Sagichim wrote: Guldbamsen wrote: 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) 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!) Damn! Forgot about the excellent DCPRG and of course the amazing De Lorians

Hi again Sagi - I must’ve missed your post the last time
Anyhoo I was thinking of De Lorians and wondering whether or not I had more ‘Canterbury-like’ albums in my collection stemming from Japan...and then it hit me just now. Hiro Yanagida’s Hirocosmos has always made me think of Caravan, Softs and Matching Mole. Not sure if you know this one?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ERbEGQb1U

Don't own enough to any sort of list but I did see Ars Nova play live about 20 years ago and they impressed me. Android Domina is my favourite by them. 

The only ones I know are...

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^ Strangely, I haven't heard of the artists that were mentioned seven and five times, until now that is.  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.

^ Strangely, I haven't heard of the artists that were mentioned seven and five times, until now that is. 

^ Mr. Sirius is on my latest Prog Line playlist, so I'm looking forward to giving it a listen sometime soon. 

My Nippon Top 10:-

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)

- 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.