Far East Family Band
| Far East Family Band | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Japan |
| Genre (s) |
Psychedelic Rock Space Rock Progressive Rock |
| founding | around 1975 |
| resolution | around 1977 |
| Founding members | |
| Fumio Miyashita ( 宮 下 文 夫 ) | |
Guitar, vocals |
Hirohito Fukushima ( 福島 博 人 ) |
Keyboard |
Akira Itō ( 伊藤 明 ) |
Keyboard, percussion
|
Masanori Takahashi ( 高橋 正 明 ) |
| Akira Fukakusa ( 深 草 彰 ) | |
| Shizuo Takasaki ( 高崎 静 夫 ) | |
Far East Family Band ( Japanese フ ァ ー ・ イ ー ス ト ・ フ ァ ミ リ ー ・ バ ン ド , Fā Īsuto Famirī Bando ) was a Japanese psychedelic - progressive rock band that was formed in the mid-1970s.
Band history
Far East Family Band emerged from Fumio Miyashita's project Far Out, which had released a self-titled album in 1973. The Far East Family Band's debut album was released in 1975 and featured keyboard-heavy, psychedelic progressive rock with influences from Pink Floyd . The Cave Down to Earth earned the band the reputation of being the first Japanese exponent of progressive rock.
In the same year Nipponjin - Join Our Mental Phase Sound followed , which picks up tracks from the Far-Out album and the debut album in English and was mixed by Klaus Schulze . Schulze also mixed and produced the third album on which the influence of his electronic music can be heard. The last album was recorded without Akira Ito and Masanori Takahashi (Kitarō) and with Yūjin Harada instead of Shizuo Takasaki and shows borrowings from New Age music . Then the band broke up.
Discography
- 1975: The Cave Down to Earth ( 地球 空洞 説 , Chikyū Kūdō Setsu )
- 1975: Nipponjin - Join Our Mental Phase Sound
- 1976: Parallel World ( 多元 宇宙 の 旅 , days Uchū no Tabi )
- 1977: Tenkūjin ( 天空 人 )
Web links
- Far East Family Band at Allmusic (English)
- Far East Family Band at Discogs (english)
- Far East Family Band on the baby blue pages