Far East Family Band - Parallel World

 This is a legendary Japanese band, the first line-up included the known synthesizer player KITARO. The FAR EAST FAMILY BAND released a lot of records in the Seventies and Eighties, they sound quite unique (an Eastern sound) with echoes from PINK FLOYD.

The first album "The Cave Down To Earth" from '74 is mostly recommended, it has a spacey and slight psychdelic sound (like early PINK FLOYD) and contains ethnic elements which gives the music an original twist. Another fine album is "Nipponjin" ('75) with a keyboard version of FAR OUT's "Nihonjin" (FAR OUT was the precursor of FEFB). It's in the vein of the debut-album, the climates ranges from bombastic to more mellow. The album "Parallel World" was produced by the famous electronic pioneer KLAUS SCHULZE.

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1 - Metempsychosis 0:00 2 - Entering/Times 4:47 3 - Kokoro 20:41 4 - Parallel World 29:52 - Amanezcan - Origin - Zen - Reality - New Lights - In The Year 2000

 Line-up / Musicians

- Fumio Miyashita / lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, flute, producer
- Hirohito Fukushima / electric & slide guitars, electric sitar, mini-harp, percussion
- Akira Ito / Hammond organ, Mellotron, electric piano, synths (Moog, Roland, Korg)
- Masanori Takahashi aka "Kitaro" / organs (Hammond, Korg), Mellotron, synths (Moog, Roland, Korg), electric piano
- Akira Fukakusa / bass
- Shizuo Takasaki / drums, gong

With:
- Klaus Schulze / mixing