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FAR EAST FAMILY BAND - Parallel World. LP

 Artist: Far East Family Band
Title: Parallel World
Catalogue No: ASHLP3013
Label: Phoenix Records

• No.4 on Julian Cope’s list of top Japanese albums
• Produced by Klaus Schultze
• Digitally remastered 


“this is without a doubt the best album Far East Familly Band has ever done” 
www.orexisofdeath.blogspot.com

“regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group” allmusicguide.com

Unlike other albums where the Far East Family Band focused on Pink Floyd-esque psych ballads, on Parellel World the influence of producer Klaus Schultze is more pronounced, merging prog rock with electronic music to create something rather weired and wonderful. Although Schultze oversaw the production of the album rather than playing on it (which he definitely didn’t!), the synth star turn is Masanori Takasaki who was later to find new age fame and fortune under the name of Kitaro.

This is space rock at its finest and the band’s extended compositions attracted favourable comparisons with both Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and even at times the vocal style of the Moody Blues. Unfortunately this was the band’s last album but they went out on a high, achieving the rare feat of appealing to devotees of both Kraut Rock and electronic psychedelia alike.

Side 1
1. Memempsychosis
2. Entering – Times
3. Kokoro

Side 2
1. Parallel World
I. Amanezcan
II. Origin
III. Zen
IV. Reality
V. New Lights
VI. In The Year 2000

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