Yonin Bayashi, 2 (Live 1973, Bao, Neo-N)

 

Setting aside the live album released later in the decade, but recorded earlier than anything else, which is just hard rock, these last two are pretty decent and well worth digesting repeatedly, especially Neo-N for which all song titles start with the letter N: an odd concept for an album indeed. 

Track 5 from Bao hits it out of the ballpark with the awesome guitar riff dissonances followed by a crazy wah wah guitar soloing:

Despite the above, the album still has the somewhat pedestrian vocal rock songs too typical of the band.

They went all out with the prog though on the next and last one from 1979, starting with Nocto-vision for you:

I shouldn't say last one though since they did return a decade later, presumably playing a simpler style. But I don't know enough to say if those are worth hearing too, particularly the early releases which saw the light of day later. Anyways this album is a real gem, and odd that I never heard it before this week.