btw, you really should get rainbow (that's boris and michio kurihara) as well
probably most similar to 'farewell' than anything they've done actually....beautiful stuff
Wait, I meant Flood and Amplifier Worship, haha. Will look into Rainbow, too.
Seeing we're on the topic of Japanese bands, check out Mutyumu. I have their album il y a and some of the stuff on there is seriously mind-blowing. Really pretty, really intense piano work, strings, female vocalist, blasts, screams (but not on this song). Check em;
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