Kazumi Watanabe, Part 5, Post 1985 (The Spice of Life 1 and 2, Pandora, Kilowatt, One for All, Beyond Infinite)

Totally unexpectedly the album Beyond the Infinite featured acoustic guitar playing modern music over chamber/orchestrated arrangements in a true conceptual fashion, much like the great Solar Explorations album from Canadian Moe Koffman, quite a shocker for me given that it came out in the year 2001--!  And these compositions range over quite a variety of different styles, with some more simplistic Terry Riley-like ostinato stylings mixed with the all-out quasi-atonal or polyphonal style of modern classical, like on the sublimely gorgeous Sun track:

If you look at his discography in fact you can see he continued to record and put out music up until the present day after that wonderful start in the 70s with relatively generic fusion.  I have no idea what else might be in there worth hearing, obviously, having never even heard of him until a couple of weeks ago.

Going back to the mid to late 80s though the albums he made were basically continuations of the Mobo material, some Frippian dissonances and angular fast-moving instrumental fusion, not compositionally as impressive obviously as this point of comparison.  Here and there a beautiful composition pops up, as in Rain from the second Spice of Life album, note the surprising chord changes that shine like the sun through clouds, I guess that being the intended effect: