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Out

by White Heaven

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bcb723 Old school Japanese fuzzed out psych from the classic P.S.F. label. Of the same cloth and time as similar Japanese monster bands Fushitsusha & High Rise, these tracks are less avant-garde than those bands and more focused on the songs and melody. Of course when discussing "Out" the stupendous playing of guitar master Michio Kurihara (later of the Japanese band Ghost) must be stated which sets the album on fire. I have been wanting to score this on vinyl for over a decade, totally worth the wait! Favorite track: Out.
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The Midnight Toker. I tripped out on this ringing in 2021 with a fistful of shiitake's.
Glorious Japanese Psychedelic Rock.

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Arrived in lightspeed time 1/6/21.
Fernando Villalon
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Fernando Villalon An underground gem Favorite track: Mandrax Town.
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Michael Keleher One of the twentieth centuries great psychedelic masterpieces! Favorite track: Mandrax Town.
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    Deluxe edition featuring pure black paper cover and insert with metallic gold ink and all new artwork. Digital download card is included. Vinyl mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI.
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Mandrax Town 11:50
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Out 07:23

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White Heaven’s debut album Out is one of the greatest psychedelic rock albums ever recorded. First released in 1991 by Tokyo’s P.S.F. Records and pressed in an edition of 500 copies the original LP has become a holy grail in underground circles, with only a scant few copies ever making it outside of Japan. Built on the chemistry between You Ishihara’s lysergic lyricism and the blistering leads of one of Japan’s undisputed guitar gods Michio Kurihara, Out is an absolute classic. It is one of the few albums to successfully join a deep love of classic rock n’ roll with the rapturous energy of punk and openness of the avant-garde. Each song creates its own world, raising dynamic structures that defy categorization.

Meticulously re-mastered by the artists this new edition is the album in its clearest, most powerful form. Cut at the legendary Bernie Grundman studios and pressed at RTI it is now available on vinyl for the first time in almost 30 years. Black Editions presents Out in its definitive edition.

“What happens if you want to make a sound like Eric Clapton on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” or Ritchie Blackmore on Made in Japan – two early influences Kurihara mentions in particular - but you’ve never been in a recording studio before? What happens if you want to sing like Marc Bolan or Robert Plant – or even Lou Reed and Tom Verlaine - but you’ve never been on a stage before? Listen to what happened on OUT: a wide knowledge and love of classic rock sounds fused to a freedom of expression based not only on punk, but on avant-garde experimentalism. It isn’t that these young players had chops like that at the time. But neither did they need them to hit heightened moments of what I can only describe as rock rapture.”- Damon Krukowski

credits

released February 28, 2020

You Ishihara - Voice, Guitar
Michio Kurihara - Guitar
Ken Ishihara - Drums
Naohiro Yoshimoto - Bass

All songs written by You Ishihara
except 2 and 5 written by You Ishihara & Tetsuya Sakamoto
Arranged by White Heaven
Produced by Taishi Takizawa & White Heaven
Cover Photo by Sachio Ono
Engineered by Masanori Ihara and Takeshi Yoshida

Remastered for Black Editions by Soichiro Nakamura at Peace Music Studio
Vinyl mastering Chris Bellman and Bernie Grundman Mastering
Black Edition produced by Peter Kolovos

Originally released in an LP edition of 500 in 1991 by P.S.F. Records, Japan (PSF-11) and CD in 1994 (PSFD-11)

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