Far East Family Band

Far East Family Band (Japanese: ファー・イースト・ファミリー・バンド, Fā Īsuto Famirī Bando ) was a Japanese psychedelic progressive rock band formed in the mid 1970s. The band grew out of Fumio Miyashita 's Far Out project , which released a self-titled album in 1973. The Far East Family Band's debut album was released in 1975 and featured keyboard-heavy, psychedelic progressive rock with influences from Pink Floyd.
"The Cave" Down to Earth album released in 1975 earned the band the reputation of being the first Japanese proponents of progressive rock. In the same year followed Nipponjin - Join Our Mental Phase Sound, which revisits pieces from the Far Out album and the debut album in English and was mixed by Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream fame. Schulze also mixed and produced the third album, on which the influence of his electronic music can be heard. Recorded without Akira Ito and Masanori Takahashi (Kitarō) and with Yūjin Harada instead of Shizuo Takasaki, the last album borrows from new age music . After that, the band broke up.
==Links to Peel==
Writing for his piece for Sounds, Peel mentioned on his 19th March 1977 publication, that he discovered the group's albums in a record shop in Marble Arch:
"I found two LPs of their work at the Virgin Records branch at Marble Arch. Many-an evening your Uncle John can be found rubbing shoulders with the shop-lifters in this place, hoping against hope that some demented young woman with a taste for older men will come, as it were, his way. When no such thing happens, why, then I am obliged to take records instead." 
He also mentioned in the same article how expensive their albums were and how good they were in parts.
==Shows Played==
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*19 April 1977: The Cave, Down To The Earth (album - Nipponjin (Join Our Mental Phase Sound)) Vertigo 6370 850 John has already played something by the band, and is playing this as a result of the feedback.
== See Also ==
*Sounds
==External Links==
*Wikipedia (German)
*Discogs
Category:Artists