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1. Soldiers (5:42)
2. My Mind (15:56)
3. The Last Farewell (19:40)
Part I: The Beginning
Part II: The Meeting
Part III: The Final Punishment
Total Time 41:16

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10461

Should this be moved to compilations (same applies to Vol.2) ?

^ Done !

And what about this ?

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=44223

Detailed info here

http://www.voices-in-the-net.de/one_night_in_africa.htm

these two albums are wrongly ascribed to Michael Curtis & Samurai. however, the album covers indicate only Samurai as artist name. I therefore suggest that the artist name is changed accordingly

NotAProghead wrote: ^ Looks like a compilation. It's worth to move it and point out previously released and unreleased tracks.

And done ! (and concluded TD updates, Ufffff)

You have a point, but does the database admit two identical names ? (We'd have to add an identifier on one name at least)

^ Very well, let's wait for other opinions (I already PM'd Admin once you raised the question)

There are various bands with the same name in PA, and country is usually enough to differentiate. One fun example is Renaissance, and I pity the fool who mixes up the two at the record store (lol):
RENAISSANCE     Symphonic Prog     United Kingdom
RENAISSANCE     Tech/Extreme Prog Metal     Belgium

I have those Samurai albums, plus the one by UK Samurai.

Here's an interesting page and Samurai and Miki Curtis and the Samurais, Mickey Curtis & The Samurai, and Samurai
http://www.japrocksampler.com/artists/groupsounds/curtis_and_the_samurais_miki/

To quote an exccerp from the above link (bold is my own)

He thereafter formed Miki Curtis & Samurais to keep abreast of the then-current Group Sounds trend, growing his hair and playing up to the ‘saki and noodles curcuit’ as one Pathe Newsman called it. Was he Mickey, Miki of Mikey? Who knows but Curtis himself; he certainly spelled the name ever way possible in order to keep up with prevailing trends. And possessed with a musical approach that veered from Acker Bilk seashore jazz to soul stompathons, Curtis’ Samurais scored a run of major charts hits including ‘Taiyo No Pataya’, ‘Fires On The Plain’, ‘Wild Life’, ‘Bounce Ko Gals’ and ‘Nothing But Loving’. Ever the career minded pragmatist, Curtis took The Samurais to Europe, where the band played to their Japanese strengths by adopting kimonos. The six piece band also recorded and released records in Germany for Metronome Records, picking up a couple of British musicians – guitarist Joe Dunnett and organist John Redfern - along the way. In London, the band released the single ‘Good Morning Starshie’ b/w ‘Temple of Gold’ for United Artists, and in Italy ‘Shu Shu’ b/w ‘Fresh Hot Breeze Of Summer’. Renaming the band Samurai in 1970, to fit in with Japan’s prevailing New Rock fashions, Curtis released two interesting LPs SAMURAI and KAPPA with this line-up, the two LPs being conflated into one – entitled GREEN TEA – for its 1970 British release on Philips. On returning to Japan, bass player Tetsu Yamauchi quit to record his own solo LP for Columbia, and later joined Free. Miki Curtis thereafter tempered his prog rock fixations with the somewhat poppier LP MIMI, which he made for Vertigo Records in 1972.

Miki Curtis & the Samurais released a bunch of singles http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/miki_curtis_and_the_samurais
And also at rateyourmusic here is the Samurai page: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/samurai-1

Here is the discogs page of Miki Curtis:

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1069500-Miki-Curtis

Samurai is sometimes called Mickey Curtis & Samurai. Will find some other variations).

The albums Samurai and Kappa were released as Samurai, so are better placed under Samurai, and if I were to look for the band in progArchives I would search under S (I have looked for it before). That said I kind of like having the name as Samurai/ Miki Curtis, and a reason for that is because Miki (aka Mickey) Curtis released an album called The First Ear which is not listed here and I think would be of interest to those who like Samurai.



Since Keishiro did the addition, though, and knows Japanese Prog better than I, he may be privy to better information, so I'll leave that decision to him.
Like I said, I think calling it Samurai would make it easier to find, and seems more accurate from what I know, or call it, say, Samurai/ Miki Curtis (or Mickey Curtis).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Curtis

Incidentally, wikipedia names his band as "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai"


Edited by Logan - January 20 2017 at 15:39

^ Thanks, done.