Food Brain - Social Gathering CD
SKU
CDJ-UPCY-6349
This 1970 ‘supergroup of Japanese musicians’ is definitely all over the map, while being in the Japanese heavy psychedelic vein. [Remember your idea of heavy may not be the 1970 Japanese idea of heavy!]
“Considered to be one of the cornerstones of the Japanese scene, and for very good reason. Side one is a blistering adrenaline-rush jam that will thrill even the most refined connoisseurs of all things "heavy." Side two, on the other hand, is a subdued exploration into the abstract quality of "sound", "sounds", and "silence."
One may think the two sides are in opposition, but then 1) this was the 1970s - when bands were supposed to be both popular and experimental; and 2) this was the 1970s in Japan - where a long aesthetic tradition influenced by Zen / Daoism / Shinto meant that local heads could appreciate the beauty of the imperfect, the energy of stillness, and the sound of one hand clapping. With Food Brain we get an album that is both undeniably Western and Japanese at the same time, and it is from this cross-cultural intersection that "Japrock" unfolds.”-rateyourmusic
- LabelUniversal Japan
- UPC4988005461377