Soul Media - Memory Lane LP (Clear Blue Vinyl)It easily straddles jazz rock and fusion. Mellow, stormy, and groovy. The sound of the future born in 1980 is still vivid and fresh when listened to today. Soul Media, led by Jiro Inagaki, played a part in the development of jazz rock in Japan. This work, "Memory Lane" recorded in 1980, was the final work under the same name. Inagaki said about this work, "We tried to create this work while predicting the fate of fusion music" and it is true that the

“Mayonaka No Kyori”

Futashika na I LOVE YOU

Media / Sleeve/ OBI: VG+

Akihiko Matsumoto is in charge of the music

77 The Great Escape

Along with other city pop singers of the same era such as Yumi Tanimura

Wrote it in a day

after their supreme 1972 psychedelic debut

flutes and bells are joined by curious instruments handmade by John himself with the essential material of the Japanese countryside: bamboo

and the sole known appearance of the Mike Watt/Charles Plymell duo

I Remember Clifford

and featured musicians such as Haruomi Hosono