{"product_id":"naoki-zushi-paradise-lp","title":"Naoki Zushi \/\/ Paradise LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e日本のロック作家Naoki Zushiが、\u003cspan\u003e2025年9月にイギリスのWorld of Echoからリリースした再発レコードです。（オリジナルは1988年リリース）\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eサイケロック12曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1814110253\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/worldofecho\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/worldofecho\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more World of Echo releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12\" black vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eEdition of 500 copies.\u003cbr\u003e2025 vinyl reissue of 2 Naoki Zushi albums: 'Paradise', (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1988) and 'III' (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. こびと 05:56 \u003cbr\u003e2. ハレルヤ：左側 06:13 \u003cbr\u003e3. 孤独のハープ弾き 01:49 \u003cbr\u003e4. パラダイス：真昼 03:31 \u003cbr\u003e5. Black Hole 03:11 \u003cbr\u003e6. 紫の夕べ 03:16 \u003cbr\u003e7. 目の前の天使達 03:14 \u003cbr\u003e8. Another Lonely Harpist 02:02 \u003cbr\u003e9. They've Gone, They Will Come 04:19 \u003cbr\u003e10. パラダイス 05:36 11. 童話 05:46 \u003cbr\u003e12. Spirit In My Hair 02:37\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eText written by Jon Dale, via the label:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"World Of Echo announces the reissue of two remastered albums by Japanese guitarist and songwriter Naoki Zushi, 1988’s Paradise, and 2005’s III. Two classics of Japanese psychedelia, both Paradise and III were originally released on Org Records, the imprint of Shinji Shibayama of acid-folk group Nagisa Ni Te, with whom Zushi has guested on second guitar for decades. Both intimate and expansive, rich with revelatory songwriting and blasted, sky-scouring guitar, these reissues return these albums to print for the first time since the 2000s. It’s the first time III has been officially released on vinyl, with an extra, previously unreleased track, “Under The June Moonlight.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecorded in Kyoto’s Townhouse Studios in mid 1987 and released in limited-to-500 vinyl pressing in 1988, Paradise emerged from a scene in Kansai, Japan that was embracing the idiosyncracies of 1970s singer-songwriters, the soaring solos of early seventies psychedelia, and the DIY impulse of 1980s post-punk. While Zushi’s musical history stretched back to the early eighties – he was a founding member of Jojo Hiroshige’s noise outfit Hijokaidan – he found his feet with groups like Hallelujahs, whose dream-pop collection Niku O Kuraite Chikai Wo Tateyo was recently reissued by Black Editions, and Idiot\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e O’Clock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParadise appeared two years after that Hallelujahs album and share much the same membership – Zushi’s backing band on several of the songs includes Shibayama on drums and Ken-Ichi Takayama (aka Idiot) on electric guitar, though just as often, Zushi plays all the instruments himself. The coordinates here are wide-reaching – you can hear the volume and intensity of Neil Young \u0026amp; Crazy Horse (on “Hallelujah: Left Side” and “Paradise: Midday”), the slow-motion magic of Galaxie 500, the idiosyncratic spirit of The Only Ones, all mixed up with tender guitar miniatures and stumbling garage-psych-pop moves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven years later, after the transitional album Phenomenal Luciferin, Zushi released III. Perhaps his masterpiece, it’s already been bootlegged on vinyl, but this reissue is the real deal. The album was recorded at Studio Nemu over seven years, and sees Zushi backed by Shibayama (bass) and Masako Takeda (drums), his erstwhile bandmates in Nagisa Ni Te. By this stage, Zushi had started to really stretch out, and many of the songs on III swoon languorously, taking their sweet time to say what they need to say. It’s rich with lovely, melancholy songs, in a similar realm to bandmates Nagisa Ni Te, of course, but you can also hear traces of everything from Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs, through seventies private press loner folk, to the slow-burn meanderings of the likes of early Low or Damon \u0026amp; Naomi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen interviewed by Shibayama in the mid-nineties, Zushi said of Paradise, “it was a sort of collection of songs that had meant something to me up to that point… it was my paradise. I wanted to create paradise.” That’s something Zushi achieves on both of these albums – visionary Japanese psychedelia, en route to paradise.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Naoki Zushi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : World of Echo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecat no : WOE020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease date : 5th September 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tobira Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529245401338,"sku":null,"price":5190.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/files\/nao1_776dacd6-8fec-45a8-8345-b7f287351021.jpg?v=1783223824","url":"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/no\/products\/naoki-zushi-paradise-lp","provider":"Tobira Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}