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    Posted: November 08 2005 at 06:03
I really like what i've heard of Ain Soph, Koenjihyakkei, and Machine And The Synergetic Nuts
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Originally posted by felixxx felixxx wrote:

Well dont forget Far east family band! I have 3 albums of these guys, they are awesome 


I'm interested in this band.
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Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

I just bought Bi Kyo Ran's first album at a flea market ... at first listen (to the first half of the album) it was pretty decent, but a little too derivitative of King Crimson



Unsurprisingly Bi Kyu Ran started as a Krimson tribute band (as did Anekdoten in Sweden), but then calling themselves in 1977 Madoromi. Their 80's/early 90's albums have that Red period feel, but the last album I heard of their's from the end of the 90's was somwhere between Tool and industrial metal.

Kenso - jazz rock fusion band - In The West, a live album, is a favourite.

Kennedy  - heavy prog rock, e.g. stripping the jazz away from Mahavishnu Orchestra's music - check out their outrageous live Birds Of Fire on Kennedy! .

Kazumi Watanabe - very distinctive jazz rock fusion guitarist, managing to merge some Japanese music with western  jazz and rock - check out Mobo and Mobo 2;  Spice Of Life and Spice Of Life Too (with Bruford and Jeff Berlin providing the rhythm section).

And for some proto-Japanese prog check out  Food Brain, their eponymously titled album recorded in 1971, was issued on CD by the German label Black Rose Records in 2001 - the first track That Will Do is a whacked out intrumental.
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Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2005 at 07:52
I just bought Bi Kyo Ran's first album at a flea market ... at first listen (to the first half of the album) it was pretty decent, but a little too derivitative of King Crimson

Of the mp3s I heard here, the Ars Nova track is the most interesting ... some of them seemed a little lightweight though ... Ain Soph and Vermillion Sands come to mind ...

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Japan has a thriving Zeuhl scene - Koenjihyakkei, Ruins, Bondage Fruit and Happy Family are all excellent.

In addition, Machine and the Synergetic Nuts play a souped of version of jazz fusion with a hint of Canterbury scene thrown in and are jaw droppingly good.

And then there's Acid Mother's Temple...
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My favorite band is .. Gerard because I love bombastic, keyboard driven prog! And I like first Pageant .

Great bands are Providence (their first), Outer Limits (The Scene Of Pale Blue), Cosmos Factory (their first, many Moogs and Trons .. ), Ars Nova and Novela (the Mellotron drenched-epics).
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I really like Ars Nova and Gerard. It remind me the good old days of ELP (some 30 yrars ago ...)
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I like these...

Pageant - La Mosaique de la Reverie
Ie Rais Shan - s/t
Bellaphon - Firefly
Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest
Cinema - Mindscape
Koenjihyakkei

...and also these but not as much as the ones above...

Vermilion Sands - Water Blue
Mugen  - Sinfonia della Luna
Teru's Symphonia - Fable on the Seven Pillows
Theta - Seeds of the Dream
Mizukagami - s/t
Kalo - Spiral Dream
Ars Nova
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i´ve only heard to ars nova, they´re great , an excellent band....

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Well dont forget Far east family band! I have 3 albums of these guys, they are awesome 
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Well, I like Outer Limits, Ars Nova & Gerard...
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:54
I should have posted this in the lounge section, of course. Well, I like to be moved. Can that be arranged?
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2005 at 13:49

Just wondering if there are some fans of Japanese prog around.

They don't seem to have very strong singers, not soulful, and in fact it's all a bit neo-prog to my ears, no real innovative stuff, although I'm sure it exists somewhere...

But personally I like:

Vermilion Sands - Water Blue 

Shingetsu - Shingetsu

Pageant - Mosaique D'Une Reverie

I can't get into Gerard: too boombastic...

 
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