'Mystery Disc', by Richard Sinclair + Friends

'Mystery Disc'

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1.	unknown Opabinia track(s) 08:24
2.	Felafel Shuffle [middle section] 02:41
3.	unknown Opabinia track 06:52
4.	unknown Opabinia track 06:53
5.	Magical Mystery Medley (incl. Good To Meet You [chords only] / Why Don't We Sing This Song All Together (Rolling Stones) / Norwegian Wood (Beatles) / long jam on Good To Meet You chord structure / jam on Halfway Between Heaven and Earth / Didn't Matter Anyway / unknown Opabinia track) 50:17	info

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Richard Sinclair & Friends
Mandala, Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
26 March 2002

Audience recording - unknown equipment
Received in a trade

5 tracks

Richard Sinclair - vocals, bass, acoustic guitar

possibly with
Kazuto Shimizu - keyboards, bass clarinet (from Arepos)
Natsuki Kido - guitar (from Bondage Fruit)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki - drums (from Altered States)
unknown sax player

"I have one more from Tokyo 2002 which is a very strange one. It came as a bonus disc together with the 2002-03-24 Tokyo show. As you will know, the official dates of the Japan 2002 tour were 3/23, 3/24 and 3/28. 3/23 was in Tokyo at a venue called Mediage.
www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g14134368-d7602176-Reviews-Odaiba_Cinema_Mediage-Daiba_Minato_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html

3/24 also was in Tokyo at a venue called Mandala, and 3/28 in Osaka at a venue called Pata Pata de la Salsa, not at On Air Osaka as you have it. We do have recordings of 3/24 and 3/28. No recording is known to exist of 3/23.
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/manda-la-2
richardsinclairsongs.bandcamp.com/album/osaka-japan

The bonus disc mentioned above came without any information. It just had "Richard Sinclair + Friends, Live Tokyo, 26/03/2002" handwritten on the disc. It is divided in 5 tracks, with the last one being 50 minutes long. I left that one in wav format,so you can easily re-track this one.

It may have been a soundcheck...then again...audience can be heard. Please listen for yourself and tell me what you think."
- Joerg (Propylaen2001)

credits

released March 10, 2024

Richard Sinclair - vocals, bass, acoustic guitar

with Opabinia:
• Kazuto Shimizu - keyboards, bass clarinet
• Natsuki Kido - guitar
• Yasuhiro Yoshigaki - drums
• unknown - saxophone
www.discogs.com/artist/3553111-Opabinia
www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7860
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8bxvQsA4o
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e01Jo0tdbmI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FbXZRSZt_c
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEXLstjrUHI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drr1I-DMat4
sonichits.com/video/Opabinia/Pre-Cambria_Dreamin'

Recorded Tuesday 26 March 2002 at Minami Aoyama Mandala, Tokyo Japan.
mandala.gr.jp/aoyama/
You'll see exciting and exotic Japanese-Tokyo rocal shows. We have been managing concert space for many years. Many Japanese and world musicians are playing here. I hope that the world people will experience the impression more, it is a wish.
www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1066451-d13018359-Reviews-Minami_Aoyama_Mandala-Minato_Tokyo_Tokyo_Prefecture_Kanto.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoyama,_Tokyo

The Opabinia is an extinct Cambrian arthropod with five eyes and a clawed proboscis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia

This is a "recording of indeterminate origin," i.e. a bootleg. If you buy it from me it'll be the first time I've seen a quid from it.

Thanks to Joerg (Propylaen2001) for the tapes

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Richard Sinclair Martina Franca, Italy

The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies few can match, plus an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar. ... more

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