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Sound of Pacific by Sarah And Melody
Japanese release
Cat Number: King SKK-635
Marble Wax Record: VG
Labels: VG would be NM apart from stamp on side B, see pictures
Outer Hard Slip Case Plastic Jacket: F complete, damaged on right spine, heavier damage on top right corner, may be mendable, see pictures
Inserted Four Page Jacket, Lyric Sheet: VG
STICKER OBI: Torn off plastic slip case please see pictures
Here you have an amazingly rare Japanese psychedelic oddity, and it is quite an oddity that defies categorization. Sara and Melody were two young Japanese ladies that heralded out of the Hawaiian islands at least that is the story and they cut this one album around 1968 9. There they were recruited by no one else than the legendary Ishikawa Akira of Count Buffaloos and Uganda fame in order to cut this one-off album. Stylistically the album is hard to categorize but in order to try and describe this gem the closest I can come up with is groovy psychedelic Japanese Minyo cross-breeding with Folk Soul Funk Psych Sergio Mendez kind off Latin vibes and Bossa rock styled moves . And to top it all off, it was sung in perfect English, making it all the more exotic and off-the hook. In short it is late sixties Japanese psychedelic mondo rock that in decades to come would inspire contemporary, plundering the sonics of this disc to death. Sound of the Pacific is a real gem of an album that comes housed in a fold out soft paper jacket complete with totally psyched out jacket art which on its turn is housed in a hard case plastic cover. The disc is then pressed on colorful marbled wax, making it visually even more lysergic. It fits the music like a velvet glove. Hideously rare, especially with outer plastic cover. Just never surfaces on these shores and comes with the highest possible recommendation if weird but oddly normal genre defying Japanese weird pop psych is your thing....
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