Happy Endings
Happy End - Kazemachi Roman [PCJA-00066 JPN 2017 24-Bit FLAC] Ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as the number one Japanese rock album of all time, Kazemachi Roman (translates as Windy City Romance) was the second album by Happy End, it was also one of the first Japanese rock albums to be sung in the native tongue rather than the usual English. The style here is very western seventies rock, especially by our cousins over in the USA - I've likely put some of you off by now. It is tempting to list potential influences, but this record was actually first released in 1971, therefore bang up to date for the period, although yodeling in Japanese is new to me. Never released officially in the west, this is a tight remaster using the half-speed process by the chaps at Metropolis in London. The packaging is superb and the pressing quality is as how we now expect with such product. The more knowledgeable and observant of you may recognise the young chap (and eyebrows) lower lef...