more japan

digging around online, i found a compilation called love, peace & poetry: japanese psychedelic music that includes a lot of stuff referenced in julian cope's japrocksampler, including tracks i haven't heard by happenings four (a "group sounds" outfit who put keyboards out front a la the nice and soft machine); foodbrain (a "super session" band whose sole alb cope disparages at seemingly every opportunity); apryl fool (including "the lost motherland," which he sez "does approach genuine meltdown"); speed, glue and shinki (whose first alb dan mcguire sez is "easily one of the ten best albums i've ever heard"); folkie refuseniks the jacks; tokeashita garasuhako (with sesh gtr by blues creation mainman kazuo takeda); justin heathcliff (future new age snoozer osamu kitajima's attempt at replicating the brit psych sound); jazzer masahiko satoh (who merits a full chapter from cope); kuni kawachi (who had the foresight to employ flower travellin' band musos on his kirikyogen alb); the mops (hyped as "japan's first psychedelic band"); and the beavers (whence came ftb axe monster hideki ishima). we'll soon see how it sounds.