Released 1970 (1970) Release date 1970 | Recorded 1970 Label London Records | |
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Artists Flower Travellin' Band, Kuni Kawachi, Kuni Kawachi & His Group Genres Progressive rock, Doom metal Similar Satori, Anywhere, Made in Japan, We Are Here, Make Up | ||
Kuni kawachi kirikyogen 1970
Kirikyogen (Japanese: 切狂言, Hepburn: Kirikyōgen) is a 1970 album by Kuni Kawachi and the Flower Travelling Band. It was originally credited to "Kuni Kawachi and his Friends" (クニ河内とかれのともだち, Kuni Kawachi to Kare no Tomodachi) when originally released. The album showcases the growing doom metal sound that the Flower Travelling Band were honing, as well as Kuni Kawachi's progressive rock influences.
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Overview
It is the first album released by Kuni Kawachi after leaving the Group Sounds band the Happenings Four. Although sometimes co-credited to the Flower Travelling Band, only vocalist Joe Yamanaka and guitarist Hideki Ishima took part in the album. It was recorded between Anywhere and Satori, before the band went to Canada. Ishima later recalled that this was the first time he heard Yamanaka sing in Japanese; an experience he referred to as "strange."
In 1971, the song "Works Composed Mainly by Humans" was reworked, renamed "Map" and released as a split single by Flower Travellin' Band without Kawachi, together with the song "Machine Gun Kelly" by American band Jo Mama.
Kirikyogen was later released on CD. In 2002 it was bootlegged under the name Music Composed Mainly By Humans, and replaced "To Your World" with the live track "I'm Dead", and renamed "Classroom for Women" to simply "Classroom". This bootleg also included "Map", as previously released by Flower Travellin' Band, instead of the original song "Works Composed Mainly by Humans".
Reception
Hernan M. Campbell of Sputnikmusic wrote that with this album the Flower Travelling Band began "cultivating a heavily dissonant guitar style that emphasized on a low-tuned sound and slower tempos, thus giving their music a more menacing characteristic." Together with Satori, he cited Kirikyogen as playing a part in the creation of doom metal.