Justin Heathcliff – You Know What I Mean {1971}
Appears also on Love, Peace & Poetry – Asian Psychedelic Music or try the Shadoks website.
Tagged: Japan
Minoru Muraoka – The Positive & the Negative {1970}
Extremely rare, impressive, groovy and expensive Jazz-Funk from Japan.
Minoru Muraoka & New Dimension – The Positive & The Negative {1970}
Fantastic Psychedelic Jazz-Funk from Japan that was reissued by the French label Superfly Records in 2014, but it’s already sold out.
Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys – Dark eyes {1969}
Powerful Japanese Beat track that can be found on the album Electic Guitar No Subete by Takeshi Terauchi.
Happy End – Kaze Wo Atsumete {1971}
Appears on the wonderful soundtrack to the movie Lost in Translation. As I just read on discogs, you shouldn’t buy the cheaply produced, unofficial Bootlegs. Can please somebody publish a proper reissue? Happy End...
Les Rallizes Denudes – Romance of the Black Grief {1975}
Who would have thought that Shoegaze and Noise-Rock was first played by a Japanese band in the Seventies? This track can be found as “Fallin’ Love With” on the CD Cable Hogue Soundtrack. Here’s...
Jacks – Marianne {1971}
Dark, loose, sad, desperate, playful Jazz, Punk or Psychedelic Rock, this music is hard to describe.
Harry Hosono (Haruomi Hosono, Tin Pan Alley) – Carousel {1976}
Can be found on the box set Harry Hosono – Crown Years 1974-1977.