Takeshi Inomata & Sound Limited ~ Japan

Sounds of Sound L.T.D. (1970)

Nice bit of psych exploitation from Japanese jazz group. Beautiful flute / Hammond driven soundtrack styled pieces like 'Theme-Mustache', 'Monster', and 'Lullaby for Yuh' (haha, yea that's the spelling) are offset unexpectedly by the one seven minute freakout on here: 'Scotland Scene', with its massive fuzz bass and psychotic electric guitar leads. Not near as insane, or as sublime, as the 1971 follow up Innocent Canon, but this album is a heck of a lot of fun. 

---7/29/26

I didn't note this originally but the flute is provided by none other than Toshiaki Yokota.

Ownership: 2013 P-Vine (CD). Papersleeve. Acquired in 2013.

2010; 11/3/13 (review); 7/29/26

Innocent Canon (1971)

If the movie Lost in Translation had been made in 1971 instead of 2003, then Innocent Canon would most certainly have been its soundtrack. Forget the fictional Sausalito with their hipster lounge covers of forgotten Mary Butterworth tunes, and cozy-up with Sound Limited and their groovy late 60s Beat Club smackdown! This is the psychedelic soundtrack of your imagination, but never actually witnessed. One complete acid drenched freakout by a deranged Japanese jazz big band, where the action takes place in a carnival funhouse rather than the video arcade. They even lift the phased-drum-with-narration-bit from no less a luminary than Group 1850's Agemo's Trip From Mother Earth. Damn, this is awesome.

Innocent Canon is another one of those hopelessly obscure Japanese underground albums that few know about. Inomata himself is a known jazzer, but like many of his contemporaries, he went out of his mind with psychedelic music between 1970-1972.

Ownership: 2012 King (CD). The artwork throughout features some very weird erotic sketches. Acquired in 2013.

3/22/13 (review)

3/22/13 (new entry)