From Haino to People: More Japrock (Part One)
From the earliest appropriations of Western psych up through what amounts to the current day and making a stop at the boarder of the Fluxus movement, Japanese rock group’s have traversed difficult territory where any mode of psychedelia meets free improvisation. Like any number of Western group’s, these J-Rock adherents occasionally miss the mark completely and fall into a self indulgent, and self congratulatory mess that only few people can fool themselves into listening to.
