Kosmik Radiation Radio - Aug 27, 2010 Playlist

August 27, 2010 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Far East Family Band "Nipponjin" 1975 (Japan)

One of Japan's most legendary groups of the classic rock era, Far East Family Band were also notable for getting more global exposure than most Japanese groups. Their creative peak came during the years 1975-76 when they teamed up with "krautrock" legend Klaus Schulze, who bathed this and their following album Parallel World in the Kosmische pixie dust he brought to groups like Cosmic Jokers and Ash Ra Tempel. All of the material on this album consists of re-recordings of tunes from two earlier albums, The Cave Down To The Earth and their first album recorded when the band was called Far Out -- so they already had this material perfected by the time they hooked up with Klaus. The sixteen minute title track ("Nipponjin" being the Japanese word for "Japanese") is one of the greatest Kosmik anthems of all time!
The only full-blown video of FEFB in action is this clip of "Mystery Of Northern Space" which is on this album -- they sound like Pink Floyd and dress like characters from Star Trek! A few members of the band migrated to California at the end of the 1970's, where the band failed to generate much excitement but they did appear on local public access TV -- here they are performing in Los Angeles 1978, and also leader Fumio Miyashita showing off his synthesizers. More recently, Miyashita has been playing New Age "healing music". But the most successful and famous former member of the group is the New Age legend known as Kitaro.

(N) = New Release

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
Bent Wind	Castles Made Of Man	B-side 7" single	1969	Canada
Simply Saucer	Nazi Apocalypse	Cyborgs Revisited	rec. 1974	Canada
NoMeansNo	Ghosts	0+2=1	1991	Canada
Rush	Red Barchetta	Moving Pictures	1981	Canada

Love	August	Four Sail	1968	USA
Moby Grape	Indiference	Moby Grape	1967	USA
July	Dandelion Seeds	July	1968	USA
Mondo Topless	We're A Bad Trip (Camper Van Beethoven)	Freaking Out (N)	2010 (Get Hip)	USA
Sabbath Assembly	Glory Hallelujah	Restored To One (N)	2010 (AJNA/Feral House)	USA
Nice Nice	A Way We Glow	Extra Wow (N)	2009 (Warp)	USA

Far East Family Band	Mystery Of Northern Space	Nipponjin CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1975	Japan
Far East Family Band	Nipponjin	Nipponjin CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1975	Japan

Taj Mahal Travellers	I	August 1974	1974	Japan
Flower Travellin' Band	Unaware	Made In Japan	1972	Japan
Flied Egg	Oke-Kas	Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine	1971	Japan

Mondo Drag	Light As A Feather	New Rituals (N)	2010 (Alive Naturalsound)	USA
Endless Boogie	New Pair Of Shoes	Full House Head (N)	2010 (No Quarter)	USA
Liars (Carter Tutti remix)	Too Much, Too Much	Sisterworld (N - Deluxe version bonus CD)	2010 (Mute)	USA (UK)
El-P	Contagious Snippet	Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 (N)	2010 (Gold Dust)	USA

5-Track	Floating Around	Backatcha, Pod People! (N)	2009 (self release)	USA
Guzzo Pinc	Pride	The Sea (N - cassette)	2010 (Earjerk)	USA
Astro Al	Big Rock Candy Mountain (trad. arr. Astro Al)	My Neighbor's Giraffe And Other Children's Songs For Psychedelic Adults N)	2010 (self release)	USA
5-Track & The Glass Goblins	Interlude	Lost Soul Island	2004-2006	USA

Big Brothers & The Holding Company	Summertime (by Gershwin & Heyward)	Cheap Thrills	1968	USA
George Benson	Summertime (by Gershwin & Heyward)	Space	1978	USA
John Coltrane	Summertime (by Gershwin & Heyward)	My Favorite Things	1960	USA
Sonny & Cher	Summertime (by Gershwin & Heyward)	The Wondrous World Of Sonny & Cher	1966	USA

Back to playlists Back to main