Back to Yoshio Suzuki with the next LP, Fairy Tale

 

In the end I really grew to love the previous Yoshio Suzuki posts, in the 3 LPs Wings, Morning Picture, Touch of Rain he sometimes really hits that sweet spot for me of progressive fusion with a strong keyboard basis and inventive compositions.  The next album which came out in 1987 is called Fairy Tale and when I saw it wasn't online yet or apparently ripped I bought it to check out if the winning streak held up, but it doesn't quite.  It's quite a bit more in the generic fuzak style that was prevalent at that time and mysteriously popular.

I think the best track is this one called Metro X: 

Rena Rama in 7 albums

I know a lot of people have requested these records here in the past, and I've posted quite a few in these years, I ripped New Album which I remember chiefly for the beautiful impressionistic piano solo called Gestalt.  That was written by this guy, who made other records in the 70s, wonder if they are worth hearing.  

Some I never even knew about like the live album from the early 80s and this highly interestingly titled Lost Tapes from 1987

Here's the discogs intro:

Swedish jazz group formed in 1971 by Bengt Berger, Palle Danielsson and Bobo Stenson, but after a short time Lennart Åberg also joined. The band developed a new form of jazz with influences from traditional African folk music, songs from Pakistan and the Balkans, something that was unusual among American jazz musicians. The group was awarded the Jazz Award in Sweden in 1973 and then released their first album. In 1975, Berger left the group and was replaced by Leroy Lowe. In the mid-1980s, Danielsson was replaced by Anders Jormin and Lowe by Anders Kjellberg. In 1989, an album was recorded with Marilyn Mazur. Rena Rama was disbanded around 1993, but an album with recordings from 1987 was released in 1998.

So focusing on the lost tapes, the Gentle Piece, which starts so unpromisingly with a bass solo, really is quite gentle, perhaps enough to cure most treatment-failed, terminal insomniacs out there like myself:

Unison, USA 1984, lossless

From discogs;

Mid-80's U.S. print of fine West-Coast-roadhouse-vybed Prog-Rock album by U.S. east-coast aggregation; 70's Prog-Rock idioms bein' transponed onto 80's shelves as for sound-scape & vision (reminiscent of some late 70's SPIRIT excursions!) ...acoustic/electric guitars (12-string incl.) bass, harmonica 'n percussion-gear (no keyboards!) transpiring thru' spacey/phlanged filters haloed w/doomy athmo-glare, a bluesy touch-down on some songs and "so many miles" (7:34) is top-shelf jamm-out w/blistering lead-guitar-work; back-cover has the lyrics printed.

Despite the above overelaborate description, this is 'just' hard rock, similar to the slight prog touches of the Magik Dayze I loved so much, and posted not too long ago.  However, it's really good if you take it on its own terms.

Again:

I love the DSM-V reference of the song called Borderline (personality disorder):

The Flute of Gino Marinacci, Library, requested

Generic library record, by request.  A few hundred dollars to purchase!

Note how the opening to Oasi seems stolen from the Theme from MASH:

 

 

Janusz Muniak Group in Placebo, 1983 (plus 3 other LPs)

Basic smooth Polish jazz with the long tracks, like Namyslowski posted earlier.  From the album called Placebo (1983) the first track: