Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai - Seikatsu Kojyo IInkai surf rock " The first sounds we

" The first sounds we hear are charming: isolated piano keys cycle into warm strums and self-harmonies on "April Fool

made "In the Flat Field" their debut album in 1980

without disrupting it's tonality

part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter

Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai - Seikatsu Kojyo IInkai surf rock " The first sounds weVinyl LP pressing housed in old style gatefold jacket with rare photographs and liner notes by Alan Cummings. Following hot on the heels of the first, mid sixties generation of Japanese free jazz players like Kaoru Abe, Masayuki Takayanagi, Ysuke Yamashita, Motoharu Yoshizawa, etc., an exciting second wave of younger players began to emerge in the seventies. Two of it's leading members were the saxophonist Kazutoki Umezu and multi instrumentalist