Takashi Nishioka 妻になる女に Owari No Sasetsu 1973 Japan Acid Folk Psych

Takashi Nishioka s Manin No Ki is surely one of the finest psychfolk singersongwriter albums I ve heard; if it weren t for the fact that it s sung in Japanese it d probably already be in your collection. Nishioka has had a long and artistically successful and varied career of enough stature that he s been afforded a fiveCD box set in Japan. He first came to public attention in the 60s as a member of Five Red Balloons, a group whose music was indebted in great part to the folk revival taking place in America at the time. Where his career really begins to interest us, however, is around 1970, when he was the nominal leader and songwriter of Tokedashita Garasubako (Melting Glass Box), whose members included notable musicians from Apryl Fool and the Jacks. They made one extraordinary and essential album of dreamy and avantgarde psychfolk that stands on par with any thing else of the era. Unfortunately, that CD is long out of print and vinyl copies sell for exorbitant amounts of money, but they do have a fin