Samurai 1970 Green Tea Full Album HQ

PVine, PCD1599 (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 heavyprogressive vein and with a thing for lengthy jams and improvisations. This is especially apparent on the instrumental 22minute 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 songorient