This obscure Japanese underground rock group from the '70s was reissued here in 1999 to an unsuspecting western world which could not have known of the wayward experiments going on in Tokyo at the time. A perspective of the Japanese underground becomes clearer on hearing this wild dose of free form rock. While Fushitsusha, White Heaven, and
Magical Power Mako may be names from the '90s Tokyo underground that drew heavily of West Coast psychedelia of
Blue Cheer,
Karuna Khyal is a precursor to those groups in that they embraced such a storm of noise some decades earlier. However, the tape experiments and treatments are much more prominent in this recording. This is evidence that
Captain Beefheart, Faust, and
Guru Guru have a considerable degree of influence on this left-field ritual of sonic mayhem. ~ Skip Jansen