Welcome to Global Psychedelia with your host The New Elastic Infinite.  My very first show in August of 2014 was contemporary Noisy Japanese psychedelia, and today’s show is the roots of my favorite psychedelic music: Japanese psychedelia!  This is two hours that spans 1968-1974, from the Group Sounds to soundtrack, Jap-prog and proto-metal, to avant-garde.  Check out the show tomorrow, April 4th, 2015 on WEFT 90.1 and streaming live at weft.org/listen.  p.s. check out Julian Cope’s JapRock Sampler for great info on these bands.  I’ll be sharing some of his insights on tomorrows show.  Also, please support local radio and keep shows like this one live on the air by pledging/donating to WEFT at http://new.weft.org/support/

The Mops . The Psychedelic Sounds of Japan . Atsuku Nareai . 1968 . Victor

The Jacks (ジャックスの世界). Vacant World . Gloomy Flower . 1968 . Express

The Apryl Fool (エイプリル・フール). Apryl Fool . The Lost Mother Land Parts 1& 2 . 1969 . Blow Up

Food Brain (フード・ブレイン). Social Gathering . Liver Juice Vending Machine . 1970 . Polydor

Blues Creation . Demon & Eleven Children . Just I Was Born . 1971 . Denon

Lost Aaraaff (ロストアラーフ) . —- . —- . 1971 . PSF (PSFD 18)

Love Live Life + 1 . Love Will Make A Better You . Love Will Make A Better You . 1971 . King Records

People . Ceremony, Buddha Meet Rock . Prayer – Part 2 . 1971 . Super Fuji Discs

Speed, Glue & Shinki . Eve . Stoned Out of My Mind . 1971 . Atlantic

Datetenryu (だててんりゅう) . 1971 . ぶっこわれた僕 . 1971 . Gyuune Cassette (1996)

Tokyo Kid Brothers (サントラ盤‼　書を捨てよ町へ出よう) . Throw Away the Books Lets Go Into The Streets . The I Kind of Hate My Father Rock . 1971 . P-Vine Records, Victor (1993)

Masahiko Satoh and the Soundbreakers . Amalgamation (Kokotsu no Showa Genroku) . Face 1 (Side A) . 1971 . P-Vine Records

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes . Uganda . Wanyama Na Mapambazuk . 1972 . Toshiba Records

Flower Travellin’ Band (フラワー・トラベリン・バンド) . Satori . PART I . 1972 . Atlantic

Taj Mahal Travellers (タジマハール旅行団) . July 15, 1972 . Track 2 . 1972 . CBS/Sony

J・A・シーザー (Julious Arnest Seazer) . 国境巡礼歌 . 狂女節 . 1973 . Victor

Far Out . Nihonjin . Too Many People . 1973 . Denon

Yonin Bayashi (四人囃子) . Ishoku-Sokuhatsu . Ishoku-Sokuhatsu . 1974 . Phoenix Records