Speed Guru's Time

Eloy were the German prog-hard rock group. this album is their 2nd album...
i like Eloy as psychedelic meets prog rock!! the organ sounds are so great!! it remains me John Lord of Deep Purple, but this organ player Manfred Wieczorke's playing is more psychedelic style!
also their music is like some parts of early Deep Purple + psychedelic jam + effect by jet machine!!!
the end of side-A "Land Of No Body" is really like ecstasy jam!! hahahaha...
i feel almost German rock so-called Kraut Rock music is never flown away, always just floating... but Eloy's music are like "flown away to somewhere"...!! so like Eloy as "Trip Rock" very much!!!

i discovered Dionisis Savvopoulos's music in Athen Greece. then i looked for any great Greek psychedelic music, so i asked the guy at one record store in Athen... he recommended me Savvopoulos's records. i asked to him ti listen to some parts of these records... wow!! it was great!! so i bought all of his albums that i could find... of course i couldn't read any Greek, so then i didn't know his name and any titles of the albums and songs...
i didn't know anything about him... so i believed he was really underground folk singer... but he came to Japan to sing at Aichi Expo!!! unbelievable!! it means he was so famous!! i couldn't see his show then (because iwas reaaly Anti Aichi Expo!!)...
his music is really unique, something is like really troubadour...!!!

i'm listening to ELP's great album "Tarkus" as the last record in 2009!
of course there is no reason, i just chose it with no idea... anyway i like ELP very much!!
especially the suite "Tarkus" is really great song for me. i feel this song is the root of prog rock, that's why it's including so many great riffs that gave many influences to other bands...!
but ELP is not prog rock group for me, they're "heavy rock" with some classical and jazzy elements... so i believe ELP is the one of greatest rock group on the history!!

Teresa11 is the psychedelic dub girls duo from Osaka. they released 1st album "Smoky Heaven" from Italian label Eibon Records on 2004. this is their 2nd album that was released from Meatbox Records on 2008. the band is led by vocalist and track maker Rie Lambdoll (from crossbred) , and guitarist Roco joined from this album. Roco was the guitarist of Mady Gura Blue Heaven (Cotton Casino was the vocalist), and she is vocalist & guitarist of HELICOID0222MB, also guitarist of F.F.D. too.
their music remains me the image of Morocco (but i haven't been there... so it's just image...), i think my imagination is so cheap and stupid, i know... but their music is really mystic atmosphere... i feel like Rie Lamdoll's mystic voice hypnotizes me... and Roco's beautiful fuzz guitar confuses me...
usually i don't listen to dub music, because i don't like any reggae music... Teresa11's music has a kind of dub method, but i like their music so much. that's why their music is really mystic psychedelic sounds, its totally different from any reggae music... even Rie Lamdoll plays melodica that is the well known instrument by Augustus Pablo... i think even psychedelic fan, reggae music fan and house music fan can listen their music...
the sleeve was painted by Rie, it's so beautiful picture!! i like it very much!!

Hirosawa Torazo is the well known legendary Rokyoku singer. Rokyoku is also called Naniwabushi, it was originally a kind of street performance in 19th century... Rokyoku is that the singer sings and talks stories with a Japanese traditional instrument Shamisen. Rokyoku was really popular until 50s, especially radio made Rokyoku popular at that time...but when people started to watch TV, Rokyoku was out of vogue... and still now...
Hirosawa Torazo became really famous by this "Shimizu Jirocho Den"... even people don't know any Rokyoku nor even name of Hirosawa Torazo, almost people know a passage from this "Shimizu Jirocho Den"!!!
his voice of singing really remains me Captain Beefheaert! if Don Van Vliet listens to Hirosawa Torazo's singing, what will he think?
i just started to listen Rokyoku in recently... although i was not interested in Rokyoku even i heard Rokyoku on radio sometime... but a couple weeks ago, i listened to Hirosawa Torazo's recording on radio when i drove my car, i got so big shock!! what the great music is!! i discovered Rokyoku then!! singing and talking are great, also backing by Shamisen with female interjected chant "haa..", "yoooo...", "ohhh...", "ahhhh" are so great too!!! why wasn't i interested in Rokyoku until these days!!?? i need to alive at least more 10 years for understanding Rokyoku!! the life is always exciting!!! hahaha...
Hirosawa Torazo dead in 1964, so i had no chance to see his live performance...

i'm really interested to listen to Erik Satie's piano playing his songs by himself... of course i know it's absolutely impossible... (i heard he recorded something... but not his song...? anyway i can't find this recording...) of course everyone knows Erik Satie's music at least "Gymnopedies"... though i've listened to lots of Satie's records by many musicians, all most records were like easy listening music... of course he composed "Musique d'ameublement" that is the root of ambient music, so maybe it was not wrong...? but i think Erik Satie's piano playing were more different from these easy listening style... so he had to write lots of annotation how to play...?
i was looking for the best playing Satie's songs, my result is this 4LP box. the pianist Jean-Joel Barbier is the French pianist also poet, he wrote long explanation of Satie's music and this recording on the booklet. he respects Satie's original idea and mind so much, so i can feel some difference from other Satie's records... i've never seen all of Satie's score by his hands... so i'm not sure Jean-Joel Barbier's interpretation is right to Satie or not... but i feel it's totally different from other "easy listening" versions!! he is also a poet, that's why he could guess and understand how to play his songs with Satie's mind...
well, music is just music... maybe some people prefer "easy listening" version to this record, even they love Satie's music... Satie already dead, so there is no answer now... we don't know what is the best playing of his music... then there wasn't recorders, so he had to write a lot of annotation how to play... at present, we can listen to recordings that were recorded by the composers or musicians under the supervision of composers, even we can't go to concerts... but we know recording is not same as concert... the best thing is listening live music by composers or musicians under the supervision of composers at the venues...
anyway i like this 4LP set very much as the closest to Satie's idea for me , i can't explain you what the difference is from other recordings by my poor English... so i can just recommend it to you if you'd like to listen to a good Satie's record...

Drugi Nacin is the Yugoslavian hard rock group, this is their 1st album in 1975. on the intro of side-A #1, the vocalist shouts like Ian Gillan on the intro of "Highway Star"!! also side-A #3, the song is really similar (70% same!) with Deep Purple's "Mistreated"!! i'm sure they got some influences from Deep Purple and some British hard rock groups... so their music is really old "Hard Rock"!!
i bought it at one secondhand record store in Zagreb. there were "Yugoslavian Rock" selection there, i asked the store owner to listen to some records what i picked up... all records were sounds like so-called New Wave atmosphere... except for this record! also there were CD reissue too, CD is including 2nd album too as 2 in 1. (then Tabata bought it...)
i like this record, because the music is really mellow even they are a hard rock group... this vocal remains me the well known american psychedelic group Mad River!! i love Mad River too! i really like this kind of mellow vocal!!
the Croatian hard psychedelic band Seven That Spells' leader Niko said me there was no good old Yugoslavian band... hahaha... i guess his mind that is same as 60s - 70s Japanese Rock for me...!! right, even this band Drugi Nacin is a kind of B-class hard rock group... if they were the british group, i might not be interested in them...