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Post #560706 by quispquake on Wed, Oct 20, 2010 7:11 AM

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Found a REALLY COOL ONE a couple of weeks back...the name of the band is "The Water Melon Group", and the album is called "Cool Music".

There's a GREAT version of "Quiet Village" on here (check out the Youtube someone put up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvYS0I0rmN8 ), as well as a lot of other exotica tracks (Jungle Flower, ALL of side 2). What little info I could find about it, is that this was a project by Toshio Nakanishi who was the lead singer of Japanese New Wave band "The Plastics".

It's a really excellent album!!! I know Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra did SOME exotica music, but is anyone aware of any more Japanese exotica? I'm totally digging on this one...