Tracklist:

Hiroshi Kamayatsu - Have you smoked Gauloise?   

Happy End - Haruyo Koi (Come, spring)     

Yoshiko Sai - Aoi Galasu Dama (Blue Glass Ball)   

Tadashi Goino Group - Jikan Wo Koero (Go Beyond Time)

Jun Fukamachi - Omae (You)      

Momotaro Pink with Original PINKS - Hachigatsu No Inshow (August’s impression)

Vol.1 Chap.100 - Heya No Naka (In The Room)   

The follow-up compilation to Time Capsule’s Nippon Acid Folk, Nippon Psychedelic Soul takes myriad pathways into the tripped-out undergrowth of 1970s Japan. Finding their feet at home and looking for inspiration abroad, the musicians featured here were engaged in the communal soul-searching that followed the breakdown of the 1960s protest movements. Some made it big, others drifted into oblivion. The music they left behind shimmers with intensity.

At the core was Happy End, the first project of YMO’s Haroumi Hosono, whose distortion-heavy guitar and crisp back-beat laid the foundations for Japanese lyrics that flipped the paradigm of Japanese rock music on its head. With it came a new found sonic ambition, such as in the bold Philly-soul style arrangements of producer Yuji Ohno, whose work with occult wandered Yoshiko Sai shares some of the bittersweet grandeur of Rotary Connection or David Axelrod.