LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

mini LP CD"

• Numbered limited edition - 1000 copies only"
• No.16 on Julian Cope's list of top Japanese albums"
• Unique LP-replica card wallet"
• Digitally remastered"

Highly collectable Nobody's sure if the muscians on this recording ever performed as a group or whether Ceremony was simply a studio super project. Certainly guitarist Kimio Mizutani had already enjoyed a certain amount of crticial exposure following stints with Love Live Life + One and Masahiko Satoh's Sound Brakers and it is Satoh's jazzy fuzz guitar licks that help to lift this album to a higher level. Unfortunately this was the ensemble's only album, but the concept work, Ceremony - Buddha Meets Rock, is an absolute classic. As the title suggests, this 1971 recording was an attempt to fuse Buddhist-influenced spiritual vibe into an innovative oriental form form of hypnotic psychedelic prog rock. . All in all a rather weird record but the sound is mindblowing - experimental and trippy, but never too free or over the top, and at times a more traditional Japanese style of music lurks in the background. A monumental album that's never going to go out of style."

Track listing: 1. Prologue 2 Shomyo Part 1 3.Gatha 4. Flower Strewing 5. Shomyo Part 2 6. Prayer Part 1 7. Prayer Part 2 8. Epilogue"