Finally, the third of the Tatsu Akiba albums: Cities in People from 2023 by request, limited time only

 

The other two posted here and here.  

Information on this one browsable here.  It's in the same vein as the other 2-- luckily.

As a sample, the bizarrely titled Fake Brain / Pure Virus / Virus in Brain (does it somehow refer to our old forgotten friend Sars-cov-2?) Again I note the resemblance to Yezda Urfa in particular, perhaps unintentional:

Gotta love the concept of  'fake brain' though.  

I note that the guitar riff in the middle of KC's 20th C. Schizoid shows up on the one track called The Surface of Each Persona.  Overall there is less of the Canterbury influence, more Yes-like sounds.

It seems unkind to criticize such a great effort at classic prog, but in terms of drawbacks, we could suggest sometimes the singing seems a little off, esp. in the backup vocals dept., and sometimes the music seems muddled when too many instruments are playing together, presumably since he is responsible for all of them.  Nonetheless, wonderful stuff in compositional terms.

Many thanks for the friend who helped obtain this hard to find album (unless you already have a subscription to one of those ripoff streaming services).

Some more Korekyojinn albums: ST (1999), Arabesque (2004)

 

As mentioned earlier, they play a kind of furious electric instrumental dissonant prog, like a more hyped-up adhd-like borderline bipolar Fripp, less accessible though, almost improvised, leaning a bit too much into the free jazz direction. 

Discogged here accompanied by the description:

Korekyojinn is a progressive jazz rock polyrhythmic ensemble, founded in 1998 by drummer Tatsuya Yoshida. They released albums on Tzadik and Magaibutsu. The band's name is translated as This Giant (as a pun to This Heat and Gentle Giant, two main influences of the band).

It's a bit of an odd combination to put together those 2.  But I would say right off the bat I don't detect much GG influence, and that's too bad because obviously we who love prog adore Gentle Giant.

Gibraltar, taken from the second release:

Paga Group by request [Paga 1985, Haunted 1988, Gnosis 1993] FLACs limited time only

 

Bernard Paganotti was a bassist in Magma, in the one-off (1978 release) Weidorje, and of course created his own group thereafter called Paga Group which made two albums, though the one credited to him called Paga from 1985 is essentially the same.

The music is zeuhl with light fusion, none of the high-energy dissonance that was in Magma and Weidorje, much, much more approachable and as you'd expect, more so the further along we get in the decade of the 1980s on to 1993's Gnosis, released in the early CD era.

Zigzag, from this last album, is a composition by the keyboardist Bernard Lajudie:

Akihisa Tsuboy with Korekyojinn in Doldrums, 2010

 

This is the violinist from KBB, whose own personal page is here.  I put up all the KBB stuff back here and here, it's a lot of music to slog through with the occasional delight, in my opinion.

In fact the music here is from the latter artist, a band called Korekyojinn, and not that similar to KBB.  The sound is quite dissonant-- almost atonal / free jazz, way beyond what the great Fripp would have been comfortable with.  As an example, the title track:

Tatsu Akiba in his ST from 2026, limited time only

 

Information on this one here.  The style is similar to the previous post but amazingly, the music is even better in my opinion.  A track called Sign 2 Turn 4 Another 1 sounds eerily like Richard Sinclair's singing on Hatfield, and that of course is a wonderful thing, something to be prized:

Amazingly at times he pulls out the classic Soft Machine sound of fuzzy bass plus wah-wah hammond organ.  Amazing!  Boy do I miss that sound.

The missing 2023 album was requested: Cities in People, does anyone have it, by chance, to share with us?