{"product_id":"naoki-zushi-paradise-vinyl-lp-due-out-05-09-25","title":"Naoki Zushi Paradise Vinyl LP 2025","description":"Indies Exclusive\u003cp\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. ???\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. ???????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. ????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. ????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Black Hole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. ????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. ???????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Another Lonely Harpist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. They’ve Gone, They Will Come - FOCUS TRACK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. ?????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. ??\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Spirit In My Hair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate and expansive, rich with revelatory songwriting and blasted, sky-scouring guitar, this reissue returns the album to print for the first time since the 2000s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Kyoto’s Townhouse Studios in mid 1987 and released in limited-to-500 vinyl pressing in 1988, 'Paradise' emerged from a scene in Kansai, Japan that was embracing the idiosyncracies of 1970s singer-songwriters, the soaring solos of early seventies psychedelia, and the DIY impulse of 1980s post-punk. While Zushi’s musical history stretched back to the early eighties – he was a founding member of Jojo Hiroshige’s noise outfit Hijokaidan – he found his feet with groups like Hallelujahs, whose dream-pop collection Niku O Kuraite Chikai Wo Tateyo was recently reissued by Black Editions, and Idiot O’Clock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Paradise' appeared two years after that Hallelujahs album and share much the same membership – Zushi’s backing band on several of the songs includes Shibayama on drums and Ken-Ichi Takayama (aka Idiot) on electric guitar, though just as often, Zushi plays all the instruments himself. The coordinates here are wide-reaching – you can hear the volume and intensity of Neil Young \u0026amp; Crazy Horse (on “Hallelujah: Left Side” and “Paradise: Midday”), the slow-motion magic of Galaxie 500, the idiosyncratic spirit of The Only Ones, all mixed up with tender guitar miniatures and stumbling garage-psych-pop moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen interviewed by Shibayama in the mid-nineties, Zushi said of Paradise, “it was a sort of collection of songs that had meant something to me up to that point… it was my paradise. I wanted to create paradise.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Assai Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55784831484287,"sku":"WOE020LP","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1565\/5653\/files\/42817ded-4ab7-4c82-8f9d-aeb06dd92c99.png?v=1753964135","url":"https:\/\/assai.co.uk\/products\/naoki-zushi-paradise-vinyl-lp-due-out-05-09-25","provider":"Assai Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}