Bi Kyo Ran
Ran (Live Vol. 3) = 乱 -ライヴ Vol.3-
FormatCDLabelBelle AntiqueGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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Bi Kyo Ran was formed in the 1970s by guitarist Kunio Suma and is one of the founding names of Japanese progressive rock. This third volume of its live archive documents the early 1980s trio, with Masahide Shiratori on bass and twelve-string guitar and Masaaki Nagasawa on drums, both also handling Mellotron and Solina parts, recorded at the Bourbon House in Osaka on 22 March 1983.
Only four pieces, three of them over a quarter of an hour: Warning, the suite Ran and Double, after the brief opening Psycho Part I. Suma's guitar alternates cold, cyclical patterns with violent outbursts, while Mellotron chords open up the slower sections. The debt to the King Crimson of the mid-1970s is clear, and the length of the pieces lets the trio stretch and work them over at length.
Japanese CD reissue by Belle Antique in a paper-sleeve mini LP replica with obi and insert, SHM-CD, remastered.
Release notes
© 2010 Belle Antique. Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica, with obi-strip and insert of notes. In the insert track-listing is also given in Japanese. Recorded at [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/1147866]Bourbon House[/url] Osaka, March 22, 1983.
| 1 | 乱 (パートⅠ) / Psycho Part I | 3:23 | |
| 2 | 警告 / Warning | 17:56 | |
| 3 | 組曲「乱」 / Suite "Ran" | 16:23 | |
| 4 | 二重人格 / Double | 16:02 |
- 白鳥正英
- Bass, Guitar [12 strings Guitar ]
- Izumi Idogawa
- Coordinator [CD Artwork Coordinator]
- 長沢正昭
- Drums, Mellotron, Synthesizer [Solina]
- 須磨邦雄
- Guitar, Mellotron
- たかみひろし
- Liner Notes, Producer
- Yuta Yamazaki
- Remastered By
