Justin Heathcliff - Justin Heathcliff (Reissue) (1971/1998)
Artist: Justin Heathcliff
Title: Justin Heathcliff
Year Of Release: 1971/1998
Label: Warner Music
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 31:42
Total Size: 218 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Justin Heathcliff
Year Of Release: 1971/1998
Label: Warner Music
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 31:42
Total Size: 218 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Let's All Sing Along
02. You All Should Think More
03. Hand in Hand
04. Which Is True
05. Once It's Nice to Ride at Dawn
06. Lost Are My Dreams
07. Sea
08. You Know What I Mean
09. A Tiny Island
10. Good Bye
11. Life
12. To Live in Peace
13. Love Makes the World Complete
Line-up::
Instruments – Justin Heathcliff
Producer – Justin Heathcliff
Songwriter – Justin Heathcliff
Vocals – Justin Heathcliff
As the brainchild of former Launchers guitarist Osamu Kitajima, the Justin Heathcliff project was a successful attempt to cop the kind of English post-REVOLVER psychedelia that such London bands as The Syn, Mike Stuart Span and The Flies were recording in 1967-8. As such, the project was highly successful, especially considering it was recorded in London by a former GS guitarist with a fixation for traditional Japanese instruments. It was not, however, Kitajima’s fastidious attention to achieving sonic geographical accuracy that made the finished result a bit special, but the simple fact that love anything English of that periode, even if it’s been faked. The Justin Heathcliff LP is ultimately a cleverly executed but rather pointless exercise in genre re-creating, something that Acid Mother’s Temple attempted with a good deal more humour on their LP of fake ‘Occitanian folk music’ LA NOVIA.
Long before attaining fame as a soundtrack composer and new age artist, Osamu Kitajima adopted a sufficiently Anglo pseudonym and released this amazing homage to British pop-psychedelia in 1971. Issued by Warner Bros. in Japan only, the LP has unsurprisingly climbed skywards in price ever since, and only a cave dweller could miss the faithful nods to Syd, Marc, John, Paul, George and Ringo in the original compositions and English lyrics. Osamu's ability around a studio was evident even then and the choice of genre to lovingly imitate predated the whole retro/'paisley' psych movement by about ten or fifteen years.
Long before attaining fame as a soundtrack composer and new age artist, Osamu Kitajima adopted a sufficiently Anglo pseudonym and released this amazing homage to British pop-psychedelia in 1971. Issued by Warner Bros. in Japan only, the LP has unsurprisingly climbed skywards in price ever since, and only a cave dweller could miss the faithful nods to Syd, Marc, John, Paul, George and Ringo in the original compositions and English lyrics. Osamu's ability around a studio was evident even then and the choice of genre to lovingly imitate predated the whole retro/'paisley' psych movement by about ten or fifteen years.