Good ol’ Julian Cope wrote:
“Ey-up, it’s the Cosmic Jokers… Oops, silly me, Klaus Schultze has been at the mix again and turned Far East Family Band’s Moody Blues fixation into a kosmische classic. Always utterly devoid of any sense of proportion and sonic balance, Klaus transformed the band’s merely excellent second album into an entirely new beast, replete with fangs, fiery tongue and sixty-metre tail. Not content with goading bandleader Fumio Miyashita into entirely re-recording Far Out’s monstrous debut-LP title track from 1973, Klaus then commandeered the master tapes of their latest epic and barfed VCS3 and ARP 2600 synthesisers all over the already synthesiser-heavy sound. Ja, mein hairy! Next, he craftily sodded off the vocal-heavy songs and brought everything up louder than everything else. Mellotrons deliver warm choirs of angels and icerink orchestras throughout, while the immaculately named Joe USA provides just enough panpipes to stop Mike Pinder suing them, but not enough (mercifully) to get them played as background music in the local patchouli shop. Finally, Klaus smoked enough green to out-dub Dennis Bovelle and kicked Dieter Derks’ dick into the dirt with this all-time phase-o-thon. Best of all, at the present time (December 2006), everybody thinks Far East Family Band does what it says on the tin: ie, too Eastern, too familiar, too prog to be worth taking a risk on. So, like NEU! ’75 a decade ago, it’s still possible to pick these vinnyl gems up for a tenner. Race to eBay and make sure you don’t fall for the late-night drunken ‘Buy It Now’ at over-inflated price. So, er… Look Out!”
Far East Family Band
Nipponjin
(Vertigo, 1975)
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01. Nipponjin
02. The Cave
03. Undiscovered Northern Land
04. Timeless
05. The God Of Water
06. River Of Soul
07. The God Of Wind
08. Moovin’ Lookin’
09. Yamato
10. Mystery Of Northern Space
