Various Artists
Japanese Red Army

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JAPANESE RED ARMY is a new 76-minute-long compilation featuring six monolithic slabs of freaked out 1970s Japrock on a sleek single all-red CDR. Commencing with Far Out’s hugely drawn out electro-acoustic 17-minute ambient doom ballad ‘Too Many People’, the compilation next delivers us Apryl Fool’s swirling Phase Epic ‘The Lost Motherland’ followed by a smart excerpt from The People’s legendary LP BUDDHA MEETS ROCK. Biggest revelation is ‘Samurai Memories’ from solo artist Harumi; nineteen minutes of seemingly perpetual urban groove in the James Brown/Hapshash/Kim Fowley mould over which our hero intones, comments and holds cosmic conversations with persons hip & mysterious. The album concludes with mesmerizing performances from festival legends Zuno Keisatsu AKA Brain Police, here captured at the Bon-odori Runway Protest at Tokyo’s Narita Airport followed by a superb (and uncredited) analogue synthesizer’n’garden piece on the tailout from former Rallizes associate Taisuke Morishita.