HIRO YANAGIDA - Milk Time - FRA Absinthe Limited Press - LISTEN - VERY RARE

This is one of literally a handful of the best rock records made in Japan in the early 70s! Released at the end of 1970, the debut by this Japanese keyboard player (recorded with, among others, members of Speed Glue & Shinki and Flied Egg) is genuinely very varied music (from heavy, thrilling rock through early fusion to classicising, delicate miniatures) based, as a rule, on the sound of the Hammond organ, the virtuosic, melodic but warm sound of the violin and the heavy, at times strongly overdriven guitar of the great Kimio Mizutani (playing a little in the style of Can's guitarist), but the sound of the violin and even the harpsichord also appears. This entirely instrumental album (worth 1000-1200 dollars on the mega-rare original from Liberty) is simply thrilling, although it goes down even better after several listens! And that superb cover with a copy of the original insert reproduced inside the gatefold sleeve... A must!