SHINKI CHEN & His Friends LP HEAVY PSYCH HARD ACID PROG ROCK JAPAN HENDRIX NM
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Well, this it's truly a legendary LP and for sure THE ultimative Japanese Hard-Prog/Psych LP ever! Amazing guitars, roaring organs, burning lead vocals... what a band this was: Shinki Chen, Hiro Yanagida, Masayoshi Kabe, George Yanagi, Shinichi Yogi.
INFO
Label: long gone private press ri
Label / Matrix #: 106568 / 106569
Condition: near mint / near mint
SHINKI CHEN & FRIENDS was a short-time project of Sino-Japanese Shinki Chen, often mentioned as Nippon's Jimi Hendrix and one of the most celebrated guitarists on that island. He was born 1949 in Yokohama City and began to play at the age of fourteen. According to the development of the beat music he joined several Liverpool-styled and blues based bands founded by his friends. He even changed to play drums in between but soon came back to the guitar as his main instrument.
Music releases with his collaboration are known from the band Power House (1969) with cover songs played very unusual and Foodbrain (1970). He was also working in a theatre ensemble for the musical HAIR until he produced his solo album 'Shinki Chen & Friends' in 1971 supported by George Yanagi (bass, vocals), Shinichi Nogi (drums) and former Foodbrain band mate Hiro Yanagida (keyboards).
The cover is showing him with afro look and perpetual cigarette dangling from his lips. This album is characterized by a special blend of traditional blues rock and spaced-out psychedelic elements. After that he produced two other albums with the project 'Speed, Glue & Shinki' - 'Eve' (1971) and an eponymous double LP (1972). No information was given what happened with him afterwards.
Shinki Chen is interesting for fans of weird japanese psych and krautrock.
NOTE! Postage indicated in the auction is not the actual postage as ebay doesn't allow a higher postage then 4 GBP in this category. Postage for this item is 8 GBP to most countries within Europe and 15 GBP for the rest of the world. This is up to 2kg, so you can add up to 6 more LP's for the same postage. Postage for 7 LP´s is the same as for 1 LP, so buy more to save on postage!
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