Monday, 25 April 2022

Kazumi Watanabe, Part 2 (1977 Guitar Workshop, 1977 Olive's Step, 1977 Village in Bubbles, 1978 Lonesome Cat, 1978 Mermaid Boulevard)

 






In the latter part of the 70s he hit homerun after homerun like my wife said so immortally: the ball never even stayed in the ballpark.  Having enjoyed all this music for the last several months I think I can easily say he has jumped to the top of the fusionary guitarists, top 10 for sure, although it wasn't until late that he got quite progressive (later in the 70s to early 80s as we will see).

The ST opener Olive's Step is brilliant from beginning to end, without a doubt:



I really love the composition Mermaid Boulevard from the album of the same name:





5 comments:

  1. Julianryan25 April 2022 at 11:56

    https://www80.zippyshare.com/v/zQLfzLET/file.html
    https://www.sendspace.com/file/tap6ng

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  2. Flávio Ottoni - Editor26 April 2022 at 19:41

    Hi Dear Julian,

    How are you?
    I hope it's all fine!
    I have two requests:
    1) L.A. Sux - Time never Stops (1995) - Jazz Fusion (Germany) with a shred guitar player.
    2) Lorian - Virginal Mind (1995) - Neo-Prog (Germany) that reminds Rush, Aragon, Everon, Ilúvatar, Asgard...

    Yours sincerely,

    Flávio

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    1. Julianryan27 April 2022 at 05:03

      LA SUX
      https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/bekzv9
      LORIAN
      https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/aicvmn

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    2. Flávio Ottoni - Editor27 April 2022 at 07:43

      Hi Dear Julian,

      Thank you very much for these true little gems.with high quality bitrate & complete booklets.
      After the last album "Casa de Rock" (1976), the Prog band Casa das Máquinas released a good new album called "Brilho nos Olhos" (2022): https://youtu.be/ASLMUqFWe-U
      Blackbird was a band that has an interesting album called "Touch of Music" (Krautrock) (1971): https://youtu.be/9SuvMfPu3ao
      Link para o disco: http://krautrockmaniac.blogspot.com/search/label/Blackbirds

      Yours sincerely,

      Flávio

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  3. francisco santos27 April 2022 at 18:55

    HELLO!...
    i wonder if you can get this rare ''Kazumi Watanabe'' records
    Kazumi Watanabe Quartet – Milky Shade
    Kazumi Watanabe – Esprit
    Kazumi Watanabe – Kaihogen
    Kazumi Watanabe – Acoustic Flakes
    THX!...
    PLEASE REPLY!...

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