LP Hiro Yanagida " Same (re Absinthe Records 524 - Still Sealed
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LP Hiro Yanagida " Same (re Absinthe Records 524 - Still Sealed
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LP HIRO YANAGIDA
HIRO YANAGIDA
Country of release: France, 2018
Original released: 1971
Label: Absinthe
Catalogue number: ARLP 524
Bar code: 3556482555240
Gatefold / Gatefold Sleeve: Yes / Yes
Condition Record: MINT
Condition cover: MINT
LP is still sealed / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo from my own LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. The butcher (2:56)
2. The murder in the midnight (8:06)
3. Fantasia (4:54)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Good morning people (2:59)
2. always (2:39)
3. The skyscraper 42ndF (3:56)
4. My dear Mary (2:11)
5. melancholy (4:27)
Lists at YouTube:
1. "The Butcher" - album begin with pulsating Hammond organ which after awhile a bit circus-like theme. After 50 seconds Kimio Mizutani joins with very fuzzed guitar and together with noisy-sounding flute creates merry-go-round crazy motif. After several seconds Hiro presents another organ solo, followed by great guitar one. About 2nd minute flutist blows his head off to play some mad whistles...and in the end we can list to another Hammond solo. Only these guys know how to put so many different ideas to less than 3 minutes composition and make it good enough to not sound like total mess. Splendid beginning!
2. "The Murder In The Midnight" - if you liked "running shirts long" from the previous album so you'll love this one. Maybe it lacks such catchy, main riff like "running..." but it's still a decent 8-minutes long instrumental with hundreds of extremely fuzzed guitar and inspired organ solos. But the most important is that Seiji Tanaka (or maybe Kyosuke Tokano plays in this one?) all the time keeps the high-dynamic rhythm so you can't be bored even for a minute. This is truly magnificent, hard as steel psychedelic jam with powerful instrumentals showcase. It can be easily compared to the best moments of food brain's sole album. The only complaint I about it's have is sudden ending, which sounds like somebody just cut the tape off and that's it.
3. "Fantasia" - one of the most beautiful composition starts Adeola (but what is "usual" for these guys, heh?) with soft flute background Mana based on harpsichord & cello. Really gorgous fragment. In 2nd minute Mizutani launches one of his best, passionate electric guitar solo in the vain of Jimi Hendrix (in his most peaceful moments) or Andrew Latimer (from band "Camel" which didn't even exist back then...). Solo is 3 minutes long but never becomes boring. I like that Yanagida always leaves lots of space for his fellow musicians as his solo album aren't simple organ/piano show offs.
4. "Good Morning People" - I simply love this marvelous tune! It's incredibly uplifting composition with fabulous sparkling piano (or maybe it's harpsichord or vibraphones? really doesn't matter), discreet background body and fantastic fuzzed guitar "eruptions". The main of Mana sounds kinda childish...but you, you want can't stop taping your foot when you listened to this one! Performance is very tight and even during two guitar solos musicians don't loose the main motif at all. (P.S. take note Keiju Ishikawa's "woo-woo" bass lines!)
5. "Always" - unfortunately with this track Hiro & co. varnish seems to steam a bit. "Always" is only simple ballad based on piano and discreet acoustic guitar licks. The only interesting thing is that Hiro Yanagida sings (good info for non-english lyrics haters: just like in all other Hiro's album everything is performed in Shakespeare's ' language here) this one by himself and his that bad vocal isn't in fact, only near the end a bit too high pitched.
6 "The Skyscraper 42nd F" - by far this is the weakest track on this album. Almost 4 minutes of psychotic flute motif just drills a hole in your brain and Hiro seems to randomly hit his piano's keys. And the most horrifying is that all this mess is played louder and faster creating roller coaster (anti) atmosphere. When I talk about over-experimented Japanese prog, I just think about staff like this. Skip, skip...
7 "My Dear Mary" - while most of fans of serious music wants to call this a cheesy crap and unnecessary filler, I have to admit that I like this "outrageous" Yazid. This doo-\wop/50 ' rock and roll 2-minute tribute is just hilarious and so out-of place...that immediately I think it's perfectly IN-PLACE on Yanagida's album! Joey Smith sounds like some wanky Elvis Presley impersonator and saxophone solo is ultimately corny as much as it could be in 1971 when this album which produced. What were they thinking? But heh, I somehow like it, sincerely!
8 "Melancholy" - as title suggest this one is melancholic mid - tempo ballad with backing, Baroque-like harpsichord and fantastic body waves, especially in closing 2 minutes, atmospheric solo. Yanagida sings again in this one and his voice sounds good, somehow in heavenly/angelic sort of way. Only bass guitar is unfortunately strangely mixed to be up - front and rumpling creates rather unpleasant sound. But it's only small complaint and this fault probably exists because of not so good master tapes' condition.
In general "elderly person heaven of seven years" I can recommend to all fans of 70' psychedelic rock with jazzy hints who enjoy good, spaced out organ and guitar solos presented in dynamic, groovy compositions along with melancholic balladry, always with decent sense of melody. If you like this staff I can therefore recommend you other projects featuring Hiro Yanagida: food brain, Apryl fool, shinki Chen & friends and - if you can endure very experimental approach - so love live life + and Masahiko Satoh ("Amalgamation" album). To some extent you can be so interested in more hard rockish but equally good in guitar / organ soling bands Strawberry Path and flied egg (both led by Shigeru Narumo).
After this album Hiro restringsd another 2 solo album: simple called 'Hiro"(1972) and 'Hirocosmos"(1973). While I've never listened to the first one (seems to be very obscure), "Hirocosmos" is a completely different album than its predecessors. Psychedelic rock is almost of completely gone in his last effort and jazz tendencies are the most evident. Hiro of so mainly uses synthesizer, mellotron and electric piano instead of his famous Hammond organ (BTW Hiro restringsd so album "Folk & Rock Best Collection - The World of Hiro Yanagida" in 1972, but it's non-interesting for prog lovers collection of western pop/folk/rock artists' covers). So my advise is to stick to his debut "Milk Time" and this album which surely deserves 4.5 stars! (ozzy_tom / progarchives.com)
Hiro Yanagida - keyboards, vocals (track 5, 8)
Kimio Mizutani - electric guitar
Keiju Ishikawa - bass
Kyosuke Tokano - percussion (tracks 1, 4, 5, 7)
Kiyoshi Tanaka - percussion (track 2, 3, 6, 8)
Suiho TOSHA - flute (track 1)
Hiroto Kawamura - cello (track 3, 6)
Nozomu Takatani - flute (track 3, 6)
Joey Smith - vocals (track 7)
Ichiro Mimor - SAX (track 7)
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Musikgruppe HIRO YANAGIDA Format Album Plattengröße LP (12 Inch) Herstellungsland und -region Frankreich Genre Rock EAN 3556482555240 Sampler Nein Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min Produkttyp Vinylschallplatte Subgenre Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz-Rock Erscheinungsjahr 1971 / 2018
