Ben Sidran – Puttin’ In Time On Planet Earth
Featured in the “Floating” section of Chee Shimizu’s Obscure Sound disc guide, Bad Anima is guitarist/vocalist Katsutoshi Morizono’s first solo album to feature vocals after a series of excellent “guitar workshops” with fellow heroes Kenji Omura, Kazumi Watanabe, and June Yamagishi. Morizono and classmate Daiji Okai first became known in high school after wow-ing audiences with their complete but improvised cover of “Echoes” by Pink Floyd. They would later form the progressive rock group Yonin Bayashi in 1971 and release three influential albums. By 1976, Morizono was on his own and headed towards a more jazz-rock direction, which can be heard on Bad Anima. The tracks are bluesy, soulful, and lightly psychedelic. Highlights include the James Vincent cover “Space Traveller” and Hammond organ cover of Booker T’s “Last Tango In Memphis.”
Recommended – A2 You’ll Stay In My Heart, B2 Space Traveller, B3 Last Tango In Memphis
Tags: Blues / Obscure Sound / Soul
Tracklist:
A1 Dear Harvey
A2 You’ll Stay In My Heart
A3 Dark Side Of The Fish
A4 Midnight Waltz
B1 High Tide
B2 Space Traveller
B3 Last Tango In Memphis
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Yasuhisa Shirao (tracks: A1)
Arranged By [Horn Arrangement] – Satoshi Nakamura
Band [Horn Spectrum], Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Satoshi Nakamura
Band [Horn Spectrum], Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Junichi Kanezaki
Band [Horn Spectrum], Trumpet, Trombone, Flugelhorn – Ichiro Nitta
Bass [Fender Bass] – Rei Ohara* (tracks: A3), Ryoichi Akimoto
Drums, Electronic Drums [Synthesizer Drums] – Shuichi Murakami (tracks: A3, B1)
Drums, Percussion – Muneo Sagara
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer [Solina] – Katsutoshi Morizono
Engineer [Assistant] – Koichi Suzuki
Liner Notes – 吉成伸幸*
Percussion – Mack Shimizu*
Photography By – Akira Aimi
Piano [Acoustic Piano], Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Solina, Mini Moog] – Daisaku Kume
Producer – Katsutoshi Morizono, Shigeyuki Kawashima
Recorded By, Mixed By – Ryoji Fukushima
Synthesizer [Mini Moog, Polyphonic Synthesizer, Solina], Electric Organ [Hammond] – Koki Ito* (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2)
Tenor Saxophone, Piano [Acoustic Piano], Electric Organ [Hammond], Synthesizer [Mini Moog] – Satoshi Nakamura
Suggested Records
Ronald Langestraat – Searching
Blue Mitchell – S.T.
David Axelrod – Seriously Deep
