Inoue Takayuki Band's Sunrise from 1976

 

Information on Inoue Takayuki:

Japanese rock guitarist, composer and arranger. Born in Kobe 15-Mar-1941, died 02-May-2018.

He was a member of The Spiders (3), Pyg (2), the Takayuki Inoue Band, and worked for a long period as a member of Kenji Sawada's backing band.

His band is hidden (in Japanese characters) on this page:

Inoue Takayuki Band. Japanese rock group, formed in 1971 by members of The Spiders (3) and Pyg (2). The band was led by Takayuki Inoue.

Both his output on his own and the band's output are rather prolific.  There are occasionally several LPs released in a given year of the seventies!

I will have to try to get a grip on some of it to get an idea if it's all as good as this instrumental, fusionary library-like work from 1976 called Sunrise.  In fact it sounds almost like a library record, but has an enormous amount of variety in terms of composition with light sounds, breezy stuff, then more progressive fusion material.  Maybe someone can provide some insight on whether this is a worthwhile endeavour.

The first side long track is very interesting in the way it progresses through so much musical history, the last part even uses the Moonlight Sonata's famous minor-key three-note piano arpeggio in C sharp minor, but I think a half tone lower (C minor).  I detect a little bit of Pink Floyd influence [Wish you were here] in some places with the sustained keyboard chords and the dramatic buildup, though that's what you'd expect from a musical depiction of Sunrise.  I recommend you listen to it with big headphones, the biggest you've got, with noise cancellation preferably, to neutralize the external sounds of your family begging you to turn the music off and help with the household chores or children screaming in the background...

First track of the second side with its interesting organ tritonal chords, colored by surrounding synth sounds:

Track 6 or B5 if you're following on the database, highlights the kind of soundtrack (horror movie in this instance?) composition that this versatile musician was capable of: