Osaka Japan, by Richard Sinclair + Opabinia

Osaka Japan

by Richard Sinclair + Opabinia

supported by

Dr. "Buzz" Frenzy (Matthew J Hesse) thumbnail

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€10 EUR or more
Fan club

Join now to receive all the new music Richard Sinclair creates, including this release and 191 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. You’ll also get access to supporter-only exclusives. Learn more.

Join Now €50 EUR/year or more
Full Digital Discography

299

releases

Get all 299 Richard Sinclair releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of 1 Song per Band: H, Highways of the Sun (isolated version), Favorite Music Interludes on Classic Albums, Barcelona, Echoes in L.A. [early show], Nijmegen, Roxy LA, Paris, and 291 more. , and , .
Excludes supporter-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

€662.80 EUR or more (60% OFF)

	1.	Introduction and Disassociation (from 9 Ft Underground) (RS solo) 04:09
	2.	In The Land of Grey and Pink (RS solo) 07:44
	3.	Raga of D Pieces, Part 1 (RS + Chizuko Ura) 06:38
	4.	Good To Meet You / Raga of D Pieces, Part 2 (RS + Chizuko Ura) 14:34
	5.	Fitter Stoke Has A Bath / God Song (RS + Kazuto Shimizu) 07:47
	6.	It's What I Want (A Certain Kind) (RS solo) 04:24
	7.	? (RS solo) 04:02
	8.	Summer Lightning (RS singing karaoke over a backing track by Camel) 04:16
	9.	Jonetsu No Tori-ame (Opabinia) 08:34
	10.	Johnson's Blues / introduction of RS (Opabinia) 05:38
	11.	Share It (RS + Opabinia) 03:37
	12.	Let's Eat (Real Soon) (RS + Opabinia) 04:22
	13.	Winter Wine (RS + Opabinia) 08:37
	14.	What's Rattlin' (RS + Opabinia) 08:57
	15.	Out of the Shadows (RS + Opabinia) 15:41
	16.	Keep On Caring (RS + Opabinia) 09:53
	17.	Felafel Shuffle (RS + Opabinia) 07:49
	18.	Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract) / Licks For The Ladies / Bossa Nochance / Big Jobs No.2 (by Poo Poo and the Wee Wees) (RS + Opabinia) 07:37
	19.	Golf Girl (RS + Opabinia) 05:44
	20.	Halfway Between Heaven and Earth / Didn't Matter Anyway (RS + Opabinia) 16:33
	21.	What's Rattlin' (RS + Opabinia) 07:48

about

cd1
1. Introduction and Disassociation(from 9 ft Underground) (solo)
2. In the Land of Grey and Pink (solo)
3. Raga of D Pieces part 1 (RS and *)
4. Raga of D Pieces part 2 (RS and *)
5. Fitter Stokes Has a Bath (RS and #)>
God Song (RS and #)
6. A Certain Kind (solo)
7. ? (solo)
8. Summer Lightning (RS solo plays over a backing track)

cd2
Intermission: Trio los Opabinos (# @ $, no RS)
1. Jonetsu No Tori-ame
2. Johnson's Blues > introduction of RS
(The remainder of the show is RS backed by Trio los Opabinos)
3. Share It
4. Let's Eat (Real Soon)
5. Winter Wine
6. What's Rattlin'
7. Out of the Shadows

cd3
1. Keep On Caring
2. Felafel Shuffle
3. Big Jobs(Poo Poo Extract)>
Licks For the Ladies>
Bossa Nochance>
Big Jobs No.2(by Poo Poo and the Wee Wees)
4. Golf Girl
5. Halfway Between Heaven and Earth>
Didn't Matter Anyway
6. What's Rattlin'
www.rockinconcerts.com/richard-sinclair-2002-03-28-cd-osaka-audience.html

Thanks for the beautiful songs . And Wow! Listening to my 3rd solo concert in Osaka Japan. Have these recordings and Photos when find will post. Also Hatfield Japan.
-RS

credits

released March 28, 2002

Richard Sinclair - guitar, vocal, bass

with (tracks 3 & 4):
Chizuko Ura - vocal (from the band Sixnorth)
www.discogs.com/release/6260405-Sixnorth-Prayer
hideyukishima.bandcamp.com/album/im-here-in-my-heart
www.discogs.com/master/759336-6-North-Im-Here-In-My-Heart

with Opabinia (tracks 9-21):
• Kazuto Shimizu - keyboards, bass clarinet
• Natsuki Kido - guitar
• Yasuhiro Yoshigaki - drums
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'

The Opabinia is an extinct Cambrian arthropod with five eyes and a clawed proboscis (pictured on the cover).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia

Recorded Thursday 28 March 2002 at Pata Pata de la Salsa, at the Imperial Hotel, B1F, 1-8-50, Temmabashi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
www.livefans.jp/venues/1334
www.setlist.fm/venue/pata-pata-de-la-salsa-osaka-japan-13d04dc9.html
www.angelfire.com/cantina/thaiasia/page5.html
www.imperialhotel.co.jp/e/osaka/?stt_lang=en

aud>?>cdr>eac(secure mode)>flac(level 8)

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

license

about

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

contact / help

Contact Richard Sinclair

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Osaka Japan, you may also like:

Abracadabra In Osaka (Elton Dean, Allan Holdsworth, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall)
by Soft Works

supported by 10 fans who also own “Osaka Japan”

This is an amazing recording both musically and technically capturing some amazing musicians playing together to leave us something of wonder daveappleton
go to album
Live In London '81: The Ron Mathewson Tapes Vol. 2
by PAZ with The Singing Bowls of Tibet featuring Allan Holdsworth

supported by 10 fans who also own “Osaka Japan”

Holdsworth is up there with McLauglin in the jazzrock-fusion pantheon. And like McLaughlin he seems to have had an open mind for eastern spiritual music. This is quite beautiful. Check it out. Robert Bloemkolk
go to album
Percy Jones, Alex Skolnick, Kenny Grohowski, Tim Motzer
by PAKT

supported by 9 fans who also own “Osaka Japan”

My favorite is Cosmic Fire. Great stuff! podglaze
go to album
Escape Velocity
by Zombi

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 27, 2023
go to album
Spirit Animal
by Zombi

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 27, 2023
go to album
Surface to Air
by Zombi

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 27, 2023
go to album
Penumbra II
by Karl Jenkins

supported by 9 fans who also own “Osaka Japan”

I loved all of Karl's work with Soft Machine & Nucleus. This Jazz in Britain release is quite a find. gearmanx
go to album