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Artist:
COLTRANE, ALICE
Title:
Translinear Light
Label:
UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$32.00
Catalog #:
UCCI 1010CD
Japanese version, regular jewel box packaging (please note, this is also out in the US on Impulse!). Japanese version features one exclusive track not found on the US version: "Part 1: Acknowledgement" (as written by John Coltrane, for the first section of
Love Supreme
). With Charlie Haden, Jack DeJohnette and Ravi Coltrane. "
Translinear Light
is Alice Coltrane's first recording in 26 years, since she withdrew from active performing and recording in the late '70s to open an ashram and devote herself primarily to spiritual pursuits. The astonishing fact of
Translinear Light
is that Alice Coltrane's artistry is as fresh, complete, and compelling as in any of her celebrated works of thirty years ago or more. Her rigorously inventive approach to the music overflows with richly harmonized, exquisitely embellished ideas. Playing acoustic piano on tracks like her own 'Translinear Light' and John Coltrane's 'Crescent' she shows all the dexterous and imaginative powers at her command, from shimmering arpeggios to powerful thrusting chords. She authoritatively exploits all of the instrument's tonal and harmonic possibilities from the rumbling bass to the tinkling top wind chime notes. Though she doesn't play the harp on this recording, she often makes the piano sound like a harp. In her idiosyncratic voicings on the Wurlitzer organ, the profound influence of Indian and Eastern music can be heard, with bent notes and a raga-like approach to improvisation, as on her arrangement of the traditional Hindu hymn 'Sita Ram' which opens the album. For Alice Coltrane, it is clear that all music is devotional music.
Translinear Light
is a logical extension of the spiritual and musical path that John and Alice Coltrane began together. It is radiant, cosmic, psycho-active music, which, despite its depth and complexity, has a timeless and universal appeal. This is one for the history books."
Artist:
CURTIS & SAMURAI, MIKI
Title:
Kappa
Label:
UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
UPCY 6345CD
Part of a new Universal Japan 70s rock reissue series, called Naked Line. Legit issues, from masters, midline pricing. Reissues of the 2 albums by Miki Curtis and Samurai. They were an early 70s underground blues-derived psychedelic rock band led by Miki Curtis (vocals and flute), with Joe Dunnel (guitar) and Tetsu Yamauchi (bass; he later played with Shoji Hano in the Poly Breath Percussion Band, with Brötzmann on
Dare Devil
, and Werner Lüdi; we won't mention the fact that inbetween he had joined bands like Free or the Faces!).
Kappa
was recorded in Tokyo and released by Philips Japan in 1971. It is the heavier of the 2 albums, featuring 4 long tracks, lyrics sung in English, including the side-two long "King Riff And Snow Flakes" (which has a free-form breakdown and drum solo even!).
Artist:
CURTIS & SAMURAI, MIKI
Title:
Samurai
Label:
UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
UPCY 6346CD
Part of a new Universal Japan 70s rock reissue series, called Naked Line. Legit issues, from masters, midline pricing. Reissue of the 2nd and final Mickey Curtis album, also released by Philips Japan in 1971. This was recorded in the UK upon the band's move to Europe and again features songs written/sung in English, this time with 7 shorter tracks.
"The band played a varied kind of psychedelic progressive rock, occasionally a bit hard-rocking, with jazzy and exotic Asian touches. They've been compared by Vernon Joynson to Andwella's Dream and early Traffic."
-- Chris
McLean.
Artist:
CURTIS, MICKEY
Title:
Mimi
Label:
UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
UPCY 6347CD
Part of a new Universal Japan 70s rock reissue series, called Naked Line. Legit issues, from masters, midline pricing. This is the third Miki Curtis album, no longer with Samurai as his official band. Originally release by Japanese Vertigo in 1972. Relaxed, UK-flavored progressive rock sounds (but w/ Japanese vocals), not far off from the previous
Samurai
album.
Artist:
MIZUTANI, KIMIO
Title:
A Path Through Haze
Label:
UNIVERSAL (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
UPCY 6348CD
Part of a new Universal Japan 70s rock reissue series, called Naked Line. Legit issues, from masters, midline pricing. Classic Japanese underground rock album, previously reissued on P-Vine (and more recently, Walhalla). Kimio Mizutani (not the Rallizes dude) was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak out group Love Live Life +1 and this is a reissue of his first solo album from 1971, originally issued by Japanese Polydor. Mizutani plays electric and 'folk' guitar, leading a largish rock ensemble (bass, drums, organ, Moog, vocals, etc.) through the paces of what is widely regarded as the true psychedelic masterpieces of the early '70s Japanese scene. Sensitive interludes (with accompaniment by the Toyama String Quartet and Etoh Wood Quartet), tasteful nods to progressive/fusionist extension and lovely psych guitar hoverings by Mizutani dominate the proceedings. A nice merger of hard rock conceptualization and the complexities that would evolve from it.
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