Exactly the dawn of Japanese improvised organ-based psychedelic progressive rock! (I believe
'another' dawn of Japanese organ-based psych-prog should be The Happenings Four.)
Their core storm gets started with the second track Running Shirts Long ... don't be deceived
by the beauty of Hiro's keyboard solo in the short opening Love St. ... each instrumental
solo gets exploded heavily and rampantly. And please carefully listen to Hiro's keyboard play
especially - although his solo play goes forward at a moment on the latter part, basically Hiro
should support the other solos with his strict (and deep) rhythm on the background. Their terrific
heavy improvisation on the middle part absolutely, absolutely reminds me Acid Mothers Temple Speed
Guru's exploded guitar solo in the song Acid Takion. Makoto Kawabata might be much influenced by
Hiro's improvised heavy keyboard play (here's a difference of instruments between them though) I
imagine? Kimio Mizutani's crazy guitar solo can make their sounds more aggressive, and Hiroki
Tamaki's sharp-edged electric violin can season their style with extremely dry and bitter
soundspice. Just in the song can we feel such a greatness of all instruments, all players.
Anyway dart a glance around - in this album is flute-based soft and graceful fairy-tale song like
When She Didn't Agree and Yum, a short instrumental track Love T with plaintive
violin sounds blended with solemn keyboard ones, or a jazzy freaky flexible jam session Happy,
Sorry. And another peak of this album is, I'm sure, the miracle suite Fish Sea Milk / Fingers
Of A Red Type-Writer. Based on such a weird keyboard rumble, Kimio's crushed guitar, Hiroki's
keen electroviolin, Nozomi's loud flute, Kenji & Hiro Tsunoda's deep rhythm section can fall one
upon another. We cannot close our mouth and close our eyes till the end of Me And Milk And
Others, the song characterized as a slow percussion and violin inferno.
A great stuff, able to be defined as one of the dawn(s) of Japanese Progressive Rock. Recommended!
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