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Hiro Yanagida

Hirocosmos

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Top quality eye-popping reissue housed in hard cover mini-LP style gatefold sleeve complete with obi and liners of this rare 3rd album by psychedelic maverick Hiro Yanagida. Another totally vanished and ear bleedingly rare gem out of Japan's psychedelic history, this was Hiro Yanagida's (ex Apryl Fool, Food Brain, Sato Masahiko & Soundbreakers, Floral, etc) second solo album released in 1973. Original copies hardly ever surface anymore so this reissue is more than a welcome feast. The music is also just stellar and can be best described and as a mixture between Miles Davis electric mid-'70s electric period (minus the horns) cross-breeding with fusion and psychedelic elements, some snippets of unbridled improvisational jams and extended spun out instrumental tracks. Swirling key changes, synth driven organic whirlpools of exotic bliss, rigid time changes, swift communicative interplay that touches on freak-out jams as well as on sweet oozing interludes. A real sonic gem, and probably the best disc ever made to accompany your autumnal feelings of fleeting summer lust and last upsurge of vitality before winter settles in. One of the key recordings out of Japan 's psychedelic and progressive rock history and much in demand.
Details
Cat. number: SWAX-68
Year: 2004

Release notes

Recording date 1973.5.21~23 CBS/Sony Inc No. 1 Studio. Originally released in 1973 on CBS/Sony. Digitally remastered at Sony Music Studios (Tokyo). Comes in a CD sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip, insert of notes and catalog. Special Products A Service of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. Ⓟ1973/©2004 Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

Tracklist
1The Sea Of Tempest5:38
2Ode To Taurus4:18
3Breaking Sound-Barrier5:19
4Happy Cruise6:32
5Rockomotion5:54
6Uncertain Trip6:40
7Time For Reverie4:22
Credits
Yoshiaki Kohyama
Design
Robert Rosenstein
Drums
Tsugutoshi Goto
Electric Bass
Masayoshi Takanaka
Electric Guitar
Yuichi Maejima
Engineer [Recording]
田口史人
Liner Notes
Toshio Ogizuka
Liner Notes
Hideko Fujii
Management [Recording Manager]
鈴江真知子
Mastered By
Masami Kawahara
Percussion
Shin Kasahara
Photography By
Hiro Yanagida
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ [Hammond], Synthesizer [Arp], Mellotron, Recorded By [Recording Director]
Jynn Maeda
Producer [Recording]
Takeru Muraoka
Tenor Saxophone