Solaris/Song He Never Wrote (7") Hard Bop Black Monk Time tells the

Black Monk Time tells the story of five American soldiers in Germany who formed a band unlike anything in 1966

as you would expect

this Flying Nun release remains influential with its kraut-tinged grooves

Sakamoto had become an in-demand session musician after studying composition at the Tokyo University of Art and had played in many key albums of the time: Taeko Ohnuki's Sunshower and Tatsuro Yamashita Spacy to name just two famous albums

" "Condition of the Heart

Solaris/Song He Never Wrote (7") Hard Bop Black Monk Time tells theSolaris was written entirely as a response to a dream journal. The result is a linear journey that takes multiple transgressions, tempos and instrumentation shifts erratically at carefully planned points, whilst still maintaining a natural flow, much in the way a dream makes little logical sense but the temporal feeling created is easily understood at the time the dream occurs. The lyrics shift from past to present to future tense in a matter of a few