Samurai - 1970 - Green Tea [Full Album] HQ
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- P-Vine / PCD-1599 (1998)
1. Green Tea 00:00:00
2. Eagle's Eye 00:05:37
3. Boy With A Gun 00:11:27
4. 18th Century 00:16:34
5. Four Seasons 00:17:36
6. Mandalay 00:27:28
7. Daffy Drake 00:33:50
- Miki Curtis: Vocals, Flute
- Joe Dunnet: Guitar
- Yamauchi Tetsuo: Bass
- Harada Yuji: Drums
- John Redfern: Organ
- Hiro Izumi: Guitar, Koto
- Mike Walker: Vocals, Piano
- Graham Smith: Harmonica
This was not the British band with Dave Lawson, but a Japanese one. They moved to Britain in the late 60's, and got a contract with Philips. They were also joined by several British members and released a couple of albums. "Kappa" from 1971 reveals a band in the heavy-progressive vein and with a thing for lengthy jams and improvisations. This is especially apparent on the instrumental 22-minute "King Riff and Snow Flakes" that takes up the whole of side 2. Heavy guitar and organ dominates the sound, and literally every musician in the group is allowed to stretch out. The first side is a lot more structured and song-oriented, although the 10-minute opener "Trauma" also features lengthy improvisations. "Same Old Reason" is a strong tune with harpsichord and nice themes. The ballad "Daredatta" is sung in Japanese and dominated by the flute of Miki Curtis. "Vision of Tomorrow" is a straightforward and traditional 70's hard rock song. Overall, quite solid and enjoyable stuff if you're into early 70's heavy progressive rock with lengthy solos and instrumental passages.
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Samurai - a Japanese group led by vocalist/flautist Miki Curtis. They went to Europe in late 1967, picking up some European members and thus becoming half-Japanese. In London they recorded a single and their debut album, the double-LP [so I’m told] ‘Samurai’ a.k.a. ‘Miki Curtis & Samurai’ [German Metronome, 1970], as well as a single only released in Italy. They should not be confused with the UK group of the same name, who released a self-titled LP on Greenwich in 1971.
Their second album, ‘Green Tea’ [Philips, 1970], is as far as I can tell simply a single-LP repackaging of the debut only released in Japan, to where the band had returned. The last album that I know of is ‘Kappa’ [Philips, 1971]. The band played a varied kind of psychedelic progressive rock, occasionally a bit hard-rocking, with jazzy and exotic Asian touches. They’ve been compared by Vernon Joyson to Andwella’s Dream and early Traffic. The music on their first album [the only one I’ve heard] is fairly accessible, but without at all sacrificing quality or creativity. On ‘Kappa’ they reputedly played lengthier tracks with more of a heavy progressive leaning. ‘Samurai’/’Green Tea’ [single LP version] was reissued on CD by P-Vine. The bass player, Tetsu Yamauchi, was later in Friends [see above], Free and The Faces, as well as pursuing a brief solo career. Drummer Yujin Harada was later in the last incarnation of Far East Family Band [see above]. Graham Smith, credited on harmonica on the first 2 albums, is probably the same person who later played violin in String Driven Thing and Van Der Graaf.
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im in the psychedelic part of youtube again, and its... GOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooOoOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood...
If you listen to enough lo fi and indie it will kind of just pop up in your feed, haha
It's not at all like this, but the aesthetic is similar, that's how I got this in my suggested. Lo Fi draws a lot from Japanese culture and there is a lot of dissonance involved. Happy listening!
Try with No Red Rowan, by Thundermother
Well, or if you're just generally open in your taste of music, stuff like this will pop up too :D
I came from math/tech/prog/death Metal to Jazz to some Indie to Goa to Traditional Chinese Music to speeches by Alan Watts.
TH-cam is a weird and wonderful place.
@@robpiy91 tell me about it!
just since 2020, I've discovered the amazing electronic music of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (even if it's a videogame, it's music rivals a lotta contemporary musicians in the electronic space then, and now!), the beauty of Eloy and countless other progrock-like bands, the insanity (or, well, fun insanity!) of Cibo Matto, Hideki Naganuma, Guitar Vader and Vib-Ribbon...
beautiful music, all from different & wildly spanning genres & cultures... ahh, music is good!
I smoke my green tea for breakfast
Fallenmisfit666 Like it should be
there are good albums, there are very good albums, and then there are magical albums like this one...
Damn, Boy With A Gun is amazing.
Some songs remind me of King Crimson!
I swear, TH-cam is a blessing right now. So much good music.
green tea is one of sixty most beatiful, interesting, profound, original, harmonically complex, underappreciated and comfortable albums we succeeded to find in three years of extensive youtube search in which we listened to about three thousand albums. we organized those jewels in three playlists with twenty albums on each and here's the link to the first one if you're interested: th-cam.com/play/PLnOZ01-aml2zetoGU5UvR5UpyrD-ZOJXb.html
Me descubriste, jaja.
Excellent album, I also like their 1971 album called Kappa.
wow, reminds me of when i first discovered Eloy - good stuff!
My mate Joe is the guitar player on this,
Well, tell Joe we're all very proud of him.
woah
@Nick Tapalan why
your mate joe is a legend
no
I can't get enough of this album. Fucking fantastic. I can't find it anywhere to purchase unfortunately.
Any luck ?
Discogs. Original copies are going for sell-your-kidney money but there’s been a few reissues. Can’t comment on their quality though
Really good sound :) Just discovered it :D (i'm late i know)
No lo paro de escuchar, es genial este album !!!!!!!!!!!
This is some magical stuff. Very nice vibes.
Eagle's Eye is a pretty good song...reminds me of early JP
really nice album actually. thanks for this
Cada dia me gusta mas este cd , lo encontre mientras escuchaba el cd de la banda argentina "SUMO" (mi favorita) y no se , samuai sumo? anda a saber por que el motor de busqueda relaciono los nombres.
Buenaaa yo llegue por otras bandas lo estoy escuchando ta muy bueno .sumo la mejor de argentina
king crimson meets camel?
finaly came upon this on youtube.... God save the japanese music, deep space in rock
Wow, I don't hate this.
Pulento y real !!
Wait a sec......this isnt johnny silverhand.
wake the fuck up johnny
Good for Dark Souls 3
If someone asked me to describe what I would like to listen right now, I would describe this album. Awesome!!!
Wow, this is amazing, wonderful sounds....
don't know how did i end up here, but i'm glad i did
First time i am listening to this ! Japanese gem! thank you :)
In that awesome part of TH-cam again.
Started listening and couldn't stop.
It pulled me in like a magnet and I didn't want to let go until I heard the last track.
The Rising Sun and Union Jack joined together to make an East meets West prog rock/psych rock album.
The best green tea is made from premium cannabis flowers. It has quite a mellowing effect.
Spot on. The cover got me in, & I'm glad for this.
Wasn't expecting to find this. Thanks TH-cam.
Im guessing why they recommended this to me because of me liking Fragile by Yes
very very good...............................................................
great album
Green tea is my favourite tea!
Amazing!
Just as your pseudo man haha
Track number 2 reminds me of BERSERK's intro song lol
Gracias
Nice thanks for sharing.
Someone have the lyrics?
it’s a winner! 🔥✨
Thanks TH-cam for show me this beauty.
Not used in a Tarantino movie you say?
Masterpiece
FF8 BREEZY IS A RIP OFF OF MANDALAY
Album makes you wanna blaze it
how many albums do these guys released? and what are the name of their other albums?
Kappa is their second album. Miki Curtis the singer released a solo album as well.
amazing discovery
Cooooooooooollllllllllll!!!!!!!!!
DescendingTunes I couldn’t help but notice that the way you have the songs listed above (from 1 to 7), they’re actually AscendingTunes...
wow
A masterpieace
this is making me wanna go out on a date with Holly!
How can I dowload this pleassee!!??!?
sammy bennett from mp3ify.com
shammy boi There is no problem to downoad this!
I use Keepvid
I use 4k downloader, but I have buy it...www.4kdownload.com/de/products/product-videodownloader
I want to download this albuuum, any link? Or how can i download?
How did this get so popular all of the sudden?
It's likely that TH-cam recommendation algorithms changed. More broad than before.
Don't know , but still, not enough recognition . This is a great album
Aww que bello
Belén Tapia Ledezma está genial este álbum!!
saludos...
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Why thank you youtube recommendations!
lovely. very pleasant
good description
Thank you 😬✌
greg lake???
wow
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
25:00
11:30
Anyone has a wikipedia page or some info for this band?
Used to be called the Web.
Don't you think I've searched in the web before asking on youtube comments?
Davide Cremona omg lol. No the band literally used to be called 'The Web' xD
hahaha
Ahahah sorry, I didn't understand your reply...
where am i?
Heaven.
Estasiado.... Muito foda u.u
Pode crer.
Fora o erro deplorável de português, o som é du caralho, mesmo!
Gracias!!!!!!!!!!
so they're japanese that have no japanese accents and sound like iron butterfly? if the members aren't all japanese then its not a japanese band.
British not Japanese. lol
what kind of statement is this of Ricardo Y? So if you have a English father and Japanese mother and was born in Japan, you are not a Japanese?! I guess you can choose what you are mainly if you move to England and that band is indeed considered Japanese! what part of the nice text posted by the uploader of this brillant álbum you Ricardo did not get? Guess you Y is of a nikkey ascendency frustrated of not being a proper Japanese...
This is a Japanese band for sure. Samurai was originally formed in Japan and original members were all Japanese. They later added few British though. Miki Curtis is born and raised in Japan and he has been a famous japanese singer/actor since 50s. His nationality is Japanese (both his parents are Japanese-British Mix).
- Miki Curtis: Vocals, Flute - Joe Dunnet: Guitar - Yamauchi Tetsuo: Bass - Harada Yuji: Drums - John Redfern: Organ - Hiro Izumi: Guitar, Koto - Mike Walker: Vocals, Piano - Graham Smith: Harmonica
So George yagani isn’t Japanese either ?