Far East Family Band-Parallel World (1976)

Far East Family Band was a Japanese progressive rock and psychedelic rock band that poured into the mid-1970s with four albums that are revered among the progressive community today.
After the first two albums "The Cave Down to Earth" and "Nipponjin" both published in 1975, they published a year later "Parallel Word" with the incorporation of Masanori Takahashi, later known by Kitaro.
If in the first two works the band shows a style that moves between space rock and psychedelic (with extensive influences from bands like Pink Floyd or Tangerine Dream), in this third the long developments more focused on hypnotic sounds and the Kitaro keyboards and references to oriental music supported by the tribal cadences of percussionist Shizuo Takasaki.
The extensive and spatial "Parallel World" is an exercise almost in psychedelic catharsis with electronic textures, progressive passages and acid messages.
Far East Family Band have gone down in history as one of the first Japanese progressive groups with some success outside the Japanese country and the birthplace of two of the great stars of modern music in the following years such as the aforementioned Kitaro and the percussionist Stomu Yamashta .