Gyspy Blood

Japanese band:

The second and last album of a little known Japanese band. I heard mentions that these five musicians were insired by works of Happy End but I think that their immediate inspirers were rather American bands of that time than local performers. Particularly the sound comparing to Happy End is harder although some parallels can be drawn on second part of the record. Stylistically the album is made in the manner of typical American folk- and country-rock a la CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield, late Byrds, early Eagles etc., in some tracks you can find a decent grain of psychedelia in Grateful Dead style and a couple of songs closer to bluesy psychedelia in the vein of Quicksilver Messenger Service. In CD reissue there are 4 bonus tracks – this is an addition of 1973 band work, and one of the compositions there includes oriental motives. In the role of record producer was Miki Curtis – a well-known figure of Japanese stage of the time and the ex-leader of Samurai. All piano parts were performed by Alan Merrill, future leader of Japanese glam-rockers Vodka Collins, and organ parts by former Spiders member Katsuo Ohno. In general it's a very good performance, very consistens play of instrumentalists, great vocal harmonies. Nice work.

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