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01. KIMIO MIZUTANI - A Path Through Haze
02. KIMIO MIZUTANI - Sail in the Sky
03. KIMIO MIZUTANI - Turning Point
04. KIMIO MIZUTANI - Tell Me What You Saw
05. KIMIO MIZUTANI - One for Janis
06. KIMIO MIZUTANI - Sabbath Day's Sable
07. KIMIO MIZUTANI - A Bottle of Codeine
08. KIMIO MIZUTANI - Way Out
ARTIST
TITLE
A Path Through Haze
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BAM 7003LP BAM 7003LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/8/2012

180 gram vinyl reissue of this ultra-rare '70s Japanese rock album. Kimio Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak-out group, Love Live Life + 1 and this reissue is of his first solo album from 1971. Mizutani plays electric and "folk" guitar and leads a largish ensemble (bass, drums, organ, Moog and vocals) through what is widely-regarded as one of the true psychedelic masterpieces of the '70s Japanese scene. Sensitive interludes (accompanied by the Toyama String Quartet and the Etoh Wood Quartet), tasteful nods to progressive/fusionist extension and a lovely, hovering psych guitar from Mizutani dominate proceedings. A nice merger of hard rock conceptualization and the complexities that would evolve from it -- and, until now, almost impossible to hear within the confines of western society.