osorezan / doh no kembai

Label: Lemoon Records

Japanese psych experimental music of the mid 1970s. A music collective formed in 1974 which was at least active up to the early 90s. GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI approach psychedelic music with from a rather krautish point of view and their first album from 1976 about which I write this review is rather a collage of strange noises, screams, a few rhythms patterns and wide open structures that seem to be borrowed from late 1960s psyched out free jazz. And you can bet, this is an ever flowing freak out but definitely an intense and mind bending experience. I recall German oddities like ORGANISATION (pre KRAFTWERK), FAUST and others but there is another aspect in the music that is more difficult to trace down. Funk and jazz rock with a breathtakingly smouldering atmosphere you would rather expect from English groups emerging from the Canterbury scene like SOFT MACHINE or some of the rather jazz oriented Italian progressive acts. But all in all GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI find an even more radical way to express their feelings and make their inner visions manifest in sound despite a sweet smoothness coming with these rocking jazz elements.

Track Listing:

• A Osorezan 19:01
• B Doh No Kembai 18:47