RISING MOON (japrocksampler musick)

MIYAMA TOSHIYUKI & HIS NEW HERD: MASAHIKO SATO

YAMATAIFU

Original Issue: 1972 Toshiba (TJ-9004)

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Margot-meter: 5 moons / 5

Impossibly hard-to-find cosmic jazz masterpiece ranking #21 in Julian Cope's Japrocksampler bible!

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1 Ichi
2 Ni
3 San

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from the essay on Japanese underground music written by Chris McLean:

Toshiyuki Miyama & his New Herd – this avant-garde jazz-rock combo has been around for a long time and released many albums, most of which I know nothing about. For us, their all-time classic is reputedly ‘Yamataifu’ [Toshiba-EMI/Far East, 1972], according to Julian Cope.

This has been referred to by Cope as ‘Yamati-fu’ by Masahiko Satoh & New Herd Orchestra, but the album cover shown in ‘Japrocksampler’ credits it as ‘Yamataifu’ by ‘Toshiyuki Miyama & his New Herd: Masahiko Satoh’.

Cope describes it glowingly as perhaps the “greatest cosmic jazz album ever made”, and I look forward to a reissue.