Monday 4 June 2018

Honma Express in You See I from 1980 Japan





A fantastic cover again.  Clean, inventive and modern.  Love it.

This album is mostly light fusion, electronic elements, pop songs, some library aspects to it, and some simplicity that is a bit gratuitous, however, there are also strong and well-written songs here and there.  The tracklist gives you an idea of the craziness on tap from this one-off band, named after Kenji Honma (is it a one-man band work too?)

Unit Cohesion Index
What The Magic Is To Try
Casaba
Fata Morgana
Spasmodical
Crazy Dream
Child Of Fortune
Idle Curiosity (with the voice synthesizer or vocoder was it called)


Notice the National Health-like introduction to Crazy Dream which unfortunately quickly reverts to straightforward library synth-fusion:





A really nice record, enjoyable for a few listens, and I'm very grateful for this discovery to my friend...


6 comments:

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  2. The Library Synth-Fusion Appreciation Society says Thank You!

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  3. Hi, Thanks a lot for uploading this hidden gem, unofrtunatly the link doesn't work anymore... is it possible for you to upload it again. I will truly appreciate it really!! Thanks for your amazing blog by he way

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    1. no problem at all, here you go:
      https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/j053eb

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  4. Thanks friend, i just have found it for years ......
    It's really a great album !
    U just have so many rare treasures , it opened my eyes wild ......
    I wonder if u could share lossless one with this album by any chance ...... i can trade for it with my favorite one ... how about a band called "Alf Emil Eik" (u may already knew it ) from Norway .

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