 Artist: Far East Family Band: mp3 download Genre(s): New Age Discography:  Tenkujin Year: 1977 Tracks: 6  Parallel World Year: 1976 Tracks: 4  The Cave Down To The Earth Year: 1974 Tracks: 11  Far Out Year: 1973 Tracks: 9 Regarded by many as the number one Japanese progressive rock grouping, the Far East Family Band featured the keyboardist and future new long time composer, Kitaro. A keyboard-dominated space rock band, the Far East Family Band played extended compositions that brought comparisons to Tangerine Dream and former Pink Floyd. The group's first album was released under the band name of Far Out. After ever-changing their discover, the band released The Cave Down to Earth in 1975. Their first European spill, Nipponjin -- Join Our Mental Phase Sound (1975), featured re-recorded versions of material from the late record book and the album attributed to Far Out. The group's next record, Parallel Worlds (1976), was deeply influenced by Klaus Schulze wHO Kitaro met on a trip through Europe. With the first track o'er 30 proceedings long, the album bears similarities to Krautrock legends Ash Ra Tempel. Tenkujin (1977) followed and was the band's first and only American spill. By this point, the band consisted of Miyashta (vocals, synths, guitars, bamboo transverse flute), Hirohito Fukushima (guitar, vocals, koto), and Yujin Harada (drums, percussion). It would be the band's utmost record. |
Sunday 24 August 2008
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Thursday 14 August 2008
World review: Kasai Allstars, Congotronics 3
It happens 41 seconds into the opening number. A idyll array of likembes (the chiming thumb pianos that helped to make Konono No 1's first volume in this series peerless of the landmark releases of the decade so far) ar meshing softly together in a syncopated swirl when, suddenly, a giant erupt of amplified distortion comes clumping into the picture.
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Bringing together 25 musicians (including no fewer than captain Hicks lead vocalists) from six different bands to put a 21st-century twist on to the folk heritages of five separate - and sometimes mutually antagonistic - pagan groups ought to get been a recipe for chaos. After all, the Gallagher brothers are always arguing, even though thither are just two of them and they both grew up in the same house. But from the deceptively restful implemental workout of 'Beyond the 7th Moon' to the euphoric last of 'Drowning Goat (Mbuji-Mayi)', this astonishing album unfolds with a sensuous logic that cannot be strained.
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