轰炸东京狂放的昭和气焰【日本群体之声/迷幻摇滚/巴洛克流行】The Happenings Four-Magical Happenings Tour(1968)

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1968年7月1号发行

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Arranged By – 河内邦夫
Remastered By – 渡辺昭人
Supervised By – 湯浅学

The roots of The HAPPENINGS FOUR can be traced to a five-piece Latin rock outfit SUNRISE, formed by Kuni KAWACHI (organ, keyboards, voices), Chito KAWACHI (drums, voices), and Pepe YOSHIHIRO (bass, voices) in 1964. Through gigging lots of times in Latin bars or dancing saloons, they could be approved by Mickey CURTIS, who let them appear on stage around Tokyo in 1966. At the same time Tome KITAGAWA (percussion, voices) was recruited and SUNRISE got to be a four-piece band. In the following year they were named The HAPPENINGS FOUR by Toshiro MAYUZUMI, a Japanese 'new classical music' composer, and released the debut EP at the end of 1967. As a 'guitar-less' band, and with marvelously skilled and promising play, they rose to stardom in Japan.

In 1968, the debut album of The HAPPENINGS FOUR "Magical Happenings Tour" was released, which could be much appreciated as a progressive pop one around the Japanese music scene in those days, terribly infested with lots of childish pop bands. In their second album "Classical Elegance BAROQUE 'N' ROLL" (1969) Kuni KAWACHI arranged traditional pop songs blended with pieces of classic music. Every rock & pops fan was so surprised at this arrangement and technique nobody could shoot out in Japanese rock scene that they stood more and more unrivaled. "The World Of Outsider" (1970) showed more serious, more political soundscape and lyrics in collaboration with Nobuhiko SHINOHARA, a keyboardist making their musical viewpoint more aggressive and more progressive, and Osamu KITAYAMA, a songwriter and a psychiatrist. After this album released, Kuni KAWACHI and his 'flowery' friends - Joe YAMANAKA and Hideki ISHIMA - started their project named KUNI KAWACHI TO KARE NO TOMODACHI and released their one and only album "Kirikyogen" (1970).