Hiro Yanagida (Japanese psychedelic/space rock)

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Hiro Yanagida is a quite famous Japanese organist/keyboardist which played in such bands as "Food Brain"(already on PA), "Shinki Chen & Friends"(already on PA), "Love Live Life + One"(already on PA), "Apryl Fool" and many others psych/prog acts of early Japanese prog movement.
He recorded couple of solo albums which featuring lots of fantastic guest musicians (like violinist  Hiroki Tamaki on his debut, etc).

His first two albums are clear psychedelic/space rock records full of organ/guitar/violin/flute mad soloing.

Discography:

MILK TIME (Liberty, 1970)
HIRO YANAGIDA (Atlantic, 1970) (also known as 7sai no Rojin Tengoku )
PLANETS IN ROCK AGE (1971) (the least interestign record, lots of covers of other artosts, folk influences)
HIRO (URC, 1972) (never heart this one..)
HIROCOSMOS (CBS, 1973) (more jazz-rock than psych this one)

youtube clip from, song from "Hirocosmos" album:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLMVwsp4X0

other info:

http://www.japrocksampler.com/artists/japrock/yanagida_hiro/  (biography)

http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/hiro_yanagida (discography)

www.last.fm/music/Hiro+Yanagida

www.discogs.com/artist/Hiro+Yanagida?noanv=1 

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ozzy_tom Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 15 2006 Location: China/Poland Status: Offline Points: 754	Topic: Hiro Yanagida (Japanese psychedelic/space rock) Posted: April 15 2010 at 21:01
	Hiro Yanagida is a quite famous Japanese organist/keyboardist which played in such bands as "Food Brain"(already on PA), "Shinki Chen & Friends"(already on PA), "Love Live Life + One"(already on PA), "Apryl Fool" and many others psych/prog acts of early Japanese prog movement. He recorded couple of solo albums which featuring lots of fantastic guest musicians (like violinist Hiroki Tamaki on his debut, etc). His first two albums are clear psychedelic/space rock records full of organ/guitar/violin/flute mad soloing. Discography: MILK TIME (Liberty, 1970) HIRO YANAGIDA (Atlantic, 1970) (also known as 7sai no Rojin Tengoku ) PLANETS IN ROCK AGE (1971) (the least interestign record, lots of covers of other artosts, folk influences) HIRO (URC, 1972) (never heart this one..) HIROCOSMOS (CBS, 1973) (more jazz-rock than psych this one) youtube clip from, song from "Hirocosmos" album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLMVwsp4X0 other info: http://www.japrocksampler.com/artists/japrock/yanagida_hiro/ (biography) http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/hiro_yanagida (discography) www.last.fm/music/Hiro+Yanagida www.discogs.com/artist/Hiro+Yanagida?noanv=1


DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17459	Posted: April 17 2010 at 11:00
	Thanks for your suggestion. Now I'm waitin' for his album "Milk Time" ordered a while ago, and will soon evaluate in Psych Team ...


DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17459	Posted: April 21 2010 at 06:55
	Now under evaluation in Psych/Space Team ... of course I've voted for him.


DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17459	Posted: May 19 2010 at 03:41
	... And Hiro Yanagida has been in. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5556