Harumi

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Sometimes you read so much about an album that when you finally hear it, there's no way it could possible live up to your hopes. Such was the case when I bought and listened to this Harumi disc. I'm probably doing it a great injustice, but aside from a few really stand-out tracks, many of the songs are too slick/radio friendly for me -even with Tom Wilson at the helm of the recording.
That being said, the last two tracks (Or the 2nd LP of the original double album)are much different: a haunting 24 minute psychedelic Japanese folk jam and an 18 minute go-go freak out -both with spoken word narration. The first one gets tedious and the second, while fun for a while, gets pretty annoying as well.
Overall, it's worth checking out for the few gems. Who knows? Maybe you'll like it more than me.

Arigato Gozaimasu

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