Kimio Mizutani — A Path Through Haze 1971 (Japan, Progressive-Jazz Rock)

Kimio Mizutani — A Path Through Haze 1971 (Japan, Progressive-Jazz Rock)

The only solo album by one of Japan’s most renowned guitarists of the early 1970s—a musician who was a member and founder of bands such as Out Cast, Love Live Life + 1, People, and Yuigonka.Spacey, heavy, jazzy, avantgarde ... his style can be altered again and again in this album.

What a fantastic sound creator he is - one of pioneers in Japanese Progressive Rock scene, this phrase can be exactly fit for Kimio MIZUTANI. Anyway the Japanese title of this album is 'Uchu No Kukan (Space in the universe)' and this might mean his magnificent guitar style I suppose? And look at the support members - Masahiko Satoh and Hiromasa Suzuki (jazz-pianists), Takeshi Inomata (jazz-drummer), Masaoki Terakawa (nu-rock bassist; Love Live Life + One), Hideaki Takebe (session bassist), and Hiro Yanagida (keyboardist; needless to say) - surprisingly Kimio can surpass them (what fascinating supporters!) in loudness and magnificence. His guitar has various faces ... mainly of heavy rock but sometimes bubbling and noisy, sometimes folksy, and sometimes jazzy ... but all of them are absolutely Kimio's ROCK appearances. For example, Turning Point, composed by Kuni Kawachi, is characterized by a heavily spacey and minimalistic guitar solo, based on simple keyboard sounds. On the contrary, Tell Me What You Saw by Kimio himself is a violently exploded heavy guitar rock. Various genre artists can season Kimio's solo album with various essence and spice ... we can see eclecticism in it.

Listen to a Japanese Rock progenitor's album.Review by DamoXt7942

Tracks:

01. A Path Through The Haze — 0:00

02. Sail In The Sky — 5:57

03. Turning Point — 13:16

04. Tell Me What You Saw — 17:04

05. One For Janis — 21:59

06. Sabbath Day’s Sable — 28:26

07. A Bottle Of Codeine — 32:29

08. Way Out — 39:47



Personnel:

Kimio "Jun" Mizutani — electric guitar, acoustic (folk) guitar
Masaoki Terakawa — electric bass
Takeshi Inomata — drums
Masahiko Satoh — Hammond organ, piano, Moog synthesizer
Hiromasa Suzuki — electric piano
Hideaki Takebe — electric bass
Kayoko Isshu — scat vocals
Toyama Strings Quartette — strings
Etoh Wood Quartette — woodwinds
Norihiro Sawada — producer

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