Yellow

[Machine Translation] In Memory of Johnny Yoshinaga. Five titles related to the legendary drummer who represents the Japanese ROCK world are urgently reissued! Yellow was a legendary rock band featuring the Tarumi Brothers of the legendary group "M", JL&C, Johnny Yoshinaga of Pink Crowd, and Masafumi Kawasaki of Carmen Maki & OZ. This is the only precious studio album they left behind, and although a large six-piece band, it is a gem of a record that allows you to fully enjoy the appeal of Yellow, who possessed outstanding musicianship, an extraordinary sense of arrangement, and overwhelming originality. The instrumental pieces, which are Yellow's renditions of Danny Hathaway's "The Ghetto" and "Zarathustra Speaks", are also excellent, but the original songs, which seem to incorporate a lot of the initial impulses of Japanese rock, are outstanding. The original song is also a bold cover of one of Shigeru Izumiya's early masterpieces, "Kokubu Hata ni Mukeru Shimo" (Under the Flag Fluttering). Latest digital remastering. New liner written by Shinichi Ogawa is included.

追悼、ジョニー吉長。日本ROCK界を代表する伝説のドラマーの関連作品5タイトルを緊急復刻!! 伝説のグループ"M" (エム) の垂水兄弟、JL&C、ピンク・クラウドのジョニー吉長、カルメンマキ&OZの川崎雅文らを擁した幻のロックバンド、イエロー。彼らが唯一残した貴重なスタジオ・アルバム。6人組と大所帯ながら、卓越した演奏力と非凡なアレンジセンス、圧倒的なオリジナリティを持ち合わせた"イエロー"の魅力が存分に味わえる珠玉の1枚。ダニー・ハザウェイの「ザ・ゲットー」や「ツァラトゥストラはかく語りき」をイエロー流に料理したインスト曲も最高の出来だが、日本語ロックの初期衝動をふんだんに取り込んだかのオリジナル曲があまりに秀逸。泉谷しげる初期の代表曲「国旗はためく下に」も大胆カヴァー。最新デジタルリマスタリング。小川真一による書き下ろし新規ライナー封入。