Kennedy of of the lesser known prog bands from Japan , almost totaly unknown outside their country until Musea re released the second album selftitled from 1988 on CD in 1999. With this re issue the band gain some recognition world wide but they didn't expect to something grandious, only prog collectors heared of them anyway. This second album was a really nice surprise for me, knowing this album for couple of years, I decided now to give some proper listning before come with a review. Very good album, very up tempo, jazz meets prog meets improvisations in some parts, quite good . The band is made from 4 musicians, Kohji Itoh who is responsable as the booklet of the CD said of possible and impossinle sax arrangements, great remind me in places of King Crimson, Juju Kitaoka on keybords, who done some fantastic job here, his keybords is not sounding at all like most of the bands from prog had in that period, plastic and with many digitaly elements, Takasi Yasuda e very very good drumer, he has some most intrsting chops I've heared on a prog band from Japan, very strong and confident on his abilities as musician and last but not least Izumi who's guitar has some very intristing and very well performe parts with jazzy leanings an combined with the keybords is top notch
Recorded live at Sensus Hall, Osaka on October 8th 1987
Live, released in 1988
1. Twinkling Nasa (2:56)
2. Flying Ship Part 1 (5:26)
3. Tasmanian Devil (5:31)
4. Kremlin Dream (6:01)
5.& 6. Birds of Fire & Birth of Fire (7:45)
7. Birds of Higher (2:18)
8. Explorer 1958 Alpha (7:00)
9. Flying Ship Part 3 (8:28)
Total Time 45:25
[1988//1999//2015]
- Mutsuhiko Izumi / guitar
- Juju Kitaoka / keyboards
- Kohji Itoh / saxophone
- Takashi Yasuda / drums
FLAC [16B X 44100+] UNCOMPRESSED
https://mega.nz/file/O4xHULxb#MAl63c6QvTYfMr6yJqMGPf7vlfd650nXWUJTZnzLBqk
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