PRE-RELEASE

Sorta ultra-rare material created by a Osakan jazz rock pride DJAMRA in their early days can easily let you know their crazy sensitivity should have been alive since their foundation. Sadly all founders but the leader Masaharu have left the combo soon after that, but yes their strange 'soul' is in existence even currently, you know you can grab the fact via their performance at a gig. Upon this 'pre- released' ep are six tracks, including four of their repertoires played upon stage for over twenty years, and pretty obvious but the repertoires ("The Cave", "Assassin In Sin", "Neo Skin", and "To India") have definite activeness and roughness. All players sounds young, promising, and positive for dream. Every song has massively energetic texture with heavy, avantgarde hints. Anyway it's amazing they have some psychedelic moments here and there, which cannot be heard nowadays any more. And one more, Masaharu's bass tones are somewhat gentle and sincere, at least for me.

The opening track "Byoin", I've not heard upon stage yet, is kinda mixture of their musical appearance and background. The first touch launched via Masaharu's bass is deep, heavy, and of course cynical. Explosive jazz movements, another quietness suddenly coming, and exaggerated heavy funk discharge are fantastically unpolished and turbulent (dunno if it would be intentional or not though). It's interesting to imagine this stuff should have a trigger for such a veteran combo. "The Cave" has deep-core psychedelia in the beginning, but in the middle part smooth swingin' jazz and violent guitar / rhythm madness confuse us as well. Such an unbalanced atmosphere like it is somehow of our comfort ... although they play in an unconventional manner. The following two "Assassin In Sin" and "Neo Skin" has an incredible power (leaning toward their current attitude) plus bitchy vibes (not touched now). "Lonely Baby" sounds like an anti-love song interpreted by them in those days. The saxophone machine gun is fascinatingly violent, regardless of the mainstream melody lines.

In conclusion let me say, so impressive for us to research and dig their historical manner out. Delightful.