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Zunō Keisatsu - Kamen geki no hīrō o kokuso shiro

April 28th, 2012

Zuno Keisatsu - Kamen Geki No Hiro O Kokuso ShiroZUNŌ KEISATSU

  • Kamen geki no hīrō o kokuso shiro
  • Victor
  • 1973
  • Japan

Last one on my “Japan week” is an album by Zunō Keisatsu (頭脳警察, in English Brain Police), a quite well known Japanese psychedelic rock band whose radical, politically provocative lyrics caused their music being banned from the radio and caused troubles on their gigs too. Zunō Keisatsu was formed in 1970 by the Japanese psych rockers Panta (Haruo Nakamura) and Toshiaki Ishizuka. The idea for their name came from (Frank Zappa’s) Mothers of Invention song “Who are the brain police” (from Freak Out! album released in 1966). Despite their relatively short career, they released six albums and several singles before being disbanded in 1975. Their fifth album was this one, 仮面劇のヒーローを告訴しろ (Kamen geki no hīrō o kokuso shiro), released in 1973.

Mostly the album is pretty strict midtempo psych rock like “ウイスキー・ハイウエイ (Uisukī haiuei)” (meaning whiskey highway), “恋のいらだち (Koi no idarachi)”, very heavy title track “仮面劇のヒーローを告訴しろ (Kamen geki no hīrō o kokuso shiro)”, “奴は帰らない (Yatsu wa kaeranai)” and “麗しのジェット・ダンサー (Uruwashi no jetto dansā )”. There’s also uptempo tracks like “イエス・マン (Iesu man), “プリマドンナ (Purimadonna)”, “間違いだらけの歌 (Machigaidarakeno uta)” and “まるでランボー (Marude ranbō)”. It’s hard to say what they’re singing about in the latter one, but at least I recognize they mention Voltaire, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Beethoven, Sebastian Bach, Marie Curie and Jeanne D’arc. Nice and catchy track I have to say. The standout track however - and propably the reason why non psych rock loving people want this album - is a midtempo funky rock song called “ハイエナ (Haiena)”. It starts with a nice break and has some rough but catchy lyrics. There also appears to be two acoustic guitar driven tracks included, “ホ短調の間奏曲 (Ho tanchō no kansō kyoku)” and “愛なき日々 (Ai naki hibi)”. I’m actually not a very big fan of psych rock, or rock in general, so basically this album was bought for the break only. It just appeared to be a pretty good album after several spins.


Uisukī haiuei


Marude ranbō


Haiena


Koi no iradachi


Ho tanchō no kansō kyoku


Kamen geki no hīrō o kokuso shiro


Iesu man


Yatsu wa kaeranai


Uruwashi no jetto dansā


Ai naki hibi


Purimadonna


Machigaidarake no uta

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Various - Disco sound special vol. 3

September 18th, 2011

VA - Disco Sound Special Vol. 3VARIOUS

  • Disco sound special vol. 3
  • Victor musical industries
  • 1976
  • Japan

This is the third volume of the Disco sound special series. Maybe it isn’t as strong as the second volume, but it also has it’s moments. It’s only a single LP release and it follows the line of the series except there’s no songs by any local bands. There’s some basic good disco tracks like “Save me”, “I like it” and “Fly, Robin, fly” by Silver Convention, “Lady pump” by Penny McLean, “Ooh what a night” by Linda G. Thompson and “Sexy lady” by Jumbo 76. What’s weird, there’s “Bump the bump pt. 2″ by Black Buster and “Bump me baby pt. 1″ by Dooley Silverspoon that both appear also on the second volume.

The best ones on this album include funky disco tracks “Funky lovin’” and “Hi fi woman” by the French group Ice - a band that used also names Lafayette afro-rock band, Bobby Boyd congress and Crispy & co. among some others. Ice tracks are both taken from their album Frisco disco (US release was named Import/export) from 1975. The Japanese also seem to have loved the Philippine group Black Buster a lot as there’s again three songs from them in this compilation. Besides the mentioned “Bump the bump pt. 2″, there’s funky midtempo song “Hassle pt. 1″ and quite similar “Old man”, that starts with a nice break. Latter is propably their best known track and have been reissued several times. All the three songs from Black Buster are originally released on their Bump the bump album from 1975. Can’t help it, I just got to love these Japanese compilations.


Ice - Funky lovin’


Ice - Hi fi woman


Black Buster - Hassle pt. 1


Black Buster - Old man


Black Buster - Bump the bump pt. 2

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Various - Disco sound special vol. 2

September 14th, 2011

Various – Disco sound special vol. 2 VARIOUS

  • Disco sound special vol. 2
  • Victor musical industries
  • 1975
  • Japan

There’s at least three volumes in this series of very interesting Japanese disco compilations called Disco sound special. The most interesting of them all is this second volume. First disc of this two lp set contains on quite basic American disco stuff. There’s seven songs from Van McCoy & the Soul city symphony; “Back stabbers”, “Love is the answer”, “The hustle”, “Disco baby”, “Pick up the pieces”, “Get dancin’” and “Shakey Ground” are taken from two different Van McCoy albums. First two are from their 1974 album Love is the answer and the rest are from their 1975 album Disco baby. There’s also “Hey there lonely girl” by The Softones, “I (who have nothing)” by The Chambers Brothers, “Heavy fallin’ out” by The Stylistics, “Maybe” by The Three Degrees and “I can’t help myself (sugar pie, honey bunch)” by Donnie Elbert.

Disc two is the better one. There’s two songs, “Young kung’s” and “Kung fu fighting”, by the Belgian group The Sumos, a band which actually consisted of various members of the more famous Belgian group El Chicles. Then there’s “Bump me baby pt. 1″ by Dooley Silverspoon and “Bump the bump pt. 2″ by the Philippine group Black Buster. The real treat here however is the eight songs of the local Japanese group Soul Sounds Symphony. All of their songs are instrumental covers of pretty well known disco and funk tracks. There’s “Funky stuff” and “Jungle boogie” originally by Kool & the Gang, both heavily funky and groovy versions. MFSB’s “TSOP (The sound of Philadelphia)”, here named as “Theme from tv show “Soul train”", is a funky one but a little thinner than the original. Carl Douglas‘ “Dance the kung fu” gets also a very nice treatment and was reissued together with “Jungle boogie” by Dynamite soul few years ago. The other songs by The Soul Sounds Symphony include the covers of Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ you”, The Three Degrees‘ “When will I see you again”, Philly Devotions‘ “I just can’t say goodbye” and BT Express‘ “Do it (’til you’re satisfied)”. Bonus points from the cover.


Soul Sounds Symphony - Funky stuff


Soul Sounds Symphony - Jungle boogie


Soul Sounds Symphony - Theme from tv show “Soul train”


Soul Sounds Symphony - I just can’t say goodbye


Black Buster - Bump the bump pt. 2


The Sumos - Young Kung’s

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