Kennedy from Japan

It's possible even probably some of you already quite familiar with this band from Japan that made a couple of instrumental hard fusion albums back in the day-- 1986 and 1987 that is. What a shame the zeitgeist moved away from creative progressive music back to dance and pop. Actually it moved away before these guys even released their album, but one would expect Japan was later to make the switch.

I think the second album which is ST is actually superior, from the first with the wonderful title Twinkling NASA, Explorer 1958:

From the second album another wonderful title, Kremlin Dream, [today, Kremlin nightmare surely] ironically, this came out a year after the fall of the wall of course:

There is an homage to Mahavishnu as well there should be, with Birds of Fire, on that release too.

I was surprised but I shouldn't've been they put out another album more recently in 2015 called Triangle Motion, with music exactly along the same lines, no difference, not even less inventive! However, they do recycle some of the tracks from both of their earlier works. A notable new one is called Speed King-- nothing to do with the superb heavy metal Deep Purple song I used to listen to way out loud in my car on the freeway in my younger, testosteronal days:

Album closes out with the track called "Twilight of NASA" a very very fitting name indeed given the soon to be destruction of the International Space Station, and the coming soon galactic dominance of the X-king with his innumerable satellites watching us, spying on us, laughing at us, snickering and memeing...

I include again flacs for all 3 with limited time only date stamps.