Recorded in August and November last year, this is a perfect example of the new school of Zeuhl Music emerging in Japan. These guys have released several tapes, which are impossible to find in Europe, so this studio recording will probably be your first experience of their music. The band formed in 1987 at University in Tokyo. If you have managed to find one of their live tapes you will be familiar with these instrumental pieces and I recommend you read the review of one of their concerts we featured in Ork Alarm! #21. They play about six concerts each year at the Silver Elephant in Tokyo. Keyboard player Kenichi Morimoto composes most of the music. Their main influences are Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, so I suspect every reader of this journal will find something to their taste on this album. The opening track 'Rock & Young' is like a crazed mix of the solo works of Bernard Paganotti (especially 'Urantia') and Janik Top. Track two - 'Shige et Osanna' is more akin to the Univers Zero style of new European music, although the recording of this track sounds oddly like a live cut. The guitarist Shigeru Makino also plays in various heavy metal bands, so his style of playing makes for a very different type of Zeuhl (there is of course no such thing as Zeuhl-Metal or Zeuh-Jazz). Drummer Keilchi Nagase and bassist Tatsuya Miyano keep time band firmly under control, and whilst throughout the record you can hear the influence of Christian Vander, the band themselves refer to their music as chamber jazz-rock driven by hard-rock rhythms. This is another essential purchase.