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01. PEOPLE - Prologue
02. PEOPLE - Shomyo - Part 1
03. PEOPLE - Gatha
04. PEOPLE - Flower Strewing
05. PEOPLE - Shomyo - Part 2
06. PEOPLE - Prayer - Part 1
07. PEOPLE - Prayer - Part 2
08. PEOPLE - Epilogue
ARTIST
TITLE
Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
ASH 3027CD ASH 3027CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/8/2009

Phoenix Records reissues a digitally remastered edition of People's sole album, the legendary Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock, originally released in 1971 in Japan. Nobody's sure if the musicians on this recording ever performed as a group or whether Ceremony was simply a studio super-project. Certainly, guitarist Kimio Mizutani had already enjoyed a certain amount of critical exposure following stints with Love Live Life + One and Masahiko Satoh's Sound Brakers, and it is Satoh's jazzy fuzz guitar licks that help to lift this album to a higher level. Unfortunately, this was the ensemble's only output, but this conceptual album is an absolute classic. As the title suggests, this recording was an attempt to fuse a Buddhist-influenced spiritual vibe into an innovative form of hypnotic, psychedelic prog rock. All in all, a rather weird record, but the sound is mindblowing -- experimental and trippy, but never too free or over the top, and at times a more traditional Japanese style of music lurks in the background. A monumental album that's never going to go out of style. Numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet.