Hirota - Prayer's TaleNature, the cosmos and humanity are the inspirations for Joji Hirota's latest solo album, Prayer's Tale. Single handedly playing 40 different Japanese and Asian instruments, combined with vocals, he weaves sounds of nature, emotions and colors of the universe into a beautiful soundscape. With Joji's circular instrument set up (various taiko drums, 13 different sizes of kin [prayer bells], six sizes of gongs, various bells and wind chimes) he can stand

In the early 1940s

Lilison di Kinara and Richard Séguin

Special Features: Character Commentaries

German composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Dietrich Buxtehude

as effectively dramatized here

Limited 10" vinyl pressing

having pioneered the technique of using power chords on a distorted electric guitar

The release - once more - will be celebrated in the heartland of surf music with a California west coast tour in August 2017

I COULDN't BECOME A HERO

who effectively invented and defined the approach to amplified guitar-based blues

the band moved to Rockfield Studios where the album was successfully completed by Nick Davis

"Jens is very demanding