Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalos & The Jazz Rock Band*, Terumasa Hino Quartet, Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd* – Impression Of Africa "Uganda" = 組曲 アフリカの印象 "ウガンダ"

Never released white label demonstration test pressing on the Japanese Denon label from 1970. In fact, it’s entitled ‚Impression Of Africa‘, performed by Japanese progressive jazz pioneers Akira Ishikawa & His Count Buffalo & The Jazz Rock Band, Terumasa Hino Quartet & Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd and is not to be confused with Ishikawa’s Uganda release on Toshiba label. This one features completely different compositions: with Masahiko Sato leading the orchestra, the a-side is an tribal Avantgarde Free Jazz inspired session, while the b-side provides an overall more psychedelic Afro Prog Jazz Rock feel. The entire album is driven by heaviest afro drum percussion backbeats. however, this LP was never issued officially: rumour has it that one of the members objected for its release because the music was too progressive. that’s also the reason why a sleeve cover art was not made. Listed in Hans Pokora’s book with 6 stars, only a handful of copies were ever pressed and are known to be in existence in the hands of a few lucky collectors worldwide.