Apryl Fool : The Apryl Fool

The Apryl Fool 

was a very 

accomplished 

late-'60s band

 from Japan 

whose lone 

self-titled album

 is a great mixture of

 hard psych and blues-rock. 

Their best-known track is probably

 "The Lost Mother Land, Pt. 1," 

which was featured on

 the Japanese volume of QDK's 

Love, Peace and Poetry series, 

certainly one of the most crazed, 

over the top productions 

and performances

 in the entire series,

 with its massively phased 

and treated vocals

 and general menace. 

But that tune is 

really the anomaly

 on the album,

 despite the prevalence of 

monstrous fuzz guitar

 on a number of tracks. 

At their heart,

The Apryl Fool 

seem to be a

 blues-rock band, 

although one 
that was clearly

 experimenting with 
the burgeoning

 psychedelic scene. 

Tracks like

 "Another Time,"

 "Honky Tonk Jam,"

 and Bob Dylan's "

Pledging My Time" 

are pretty straight 

blues-rock, 

and 

"April Blues" 

just adds some 

fuzz guitar

 to a boogie-woogie

 piano bit. 

The other tracks 

up the psych

 quotient considerably, 

like on

 "Tomorrow's Child,"

 with its Farfisa 

and wicked fuzz leads,

 or the aforementioned

 "The Lost Mother Land, Pt. 1." 

There are additional

 crazy tape effects on

 "The Lost Mother Land, Pt. 2." 

About half the tunes are in English

 and half in Japanese, 

but it's all good stuff. 

Historical footnote: 

years later, 

bass player 

Haruomi Hosono

 would become a member

 of one of Japan's 

most popular 

music groups ever, 

Yellow Magic Orchestra.

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