LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

1 - My Lagan Love (3'10)2 - Ashes Of The Time (12'12)3 - In Your Mind (7'36)4 - Coral D - The Cloud Sculptors (5'51)5 - Kitamoto (4'41)6 - Living In The Shiny Days (4'16)7 - The Poet (8'43)8 - The Love In The Cage (7'03)9 - In The Night Of Ancient Tombs (6'15)10 - The Love In The Cage - Live (6'20)11 - In Your Mind - Live (7'17)

VERMILION SANDS is a Japanese quintet with a standard line-up for a Progressive rock band (Bass, drums, guitar & keyboards). The feminine vocals sung by Yoko ROYAMA strongly evoke Annie HASLAM, whereas the musicians perform a delicate, elegant and refined music close to something the British musicians of RENAISSANCE could have issued in their heyday. The reissue of "Water Blue", their unique album recorded in 1989, includes many bonus-tracks. We can for example hear two tracks recorded when the band got together again at the Silver Elephant of Tokyo on the 22nd December 1996. Violinist Akihisa TSUBOY (KBB and SIX NORTH) was part of the event. A legend of the Japanese scene of the Eighties, not to be missed !