{"product_id":"zushi-naoki-paradise-2025-reissue","title":"Zushi, Naoki - Paradise (2025 Reissue)","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRIYL: Hallelujahs, Nagisa Ni Te, Grouper, Roy Montgomery, Neil Young, Galaxie 500\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Of Echo","offers":[{"title":"Very Limited Remastered Black LP (500 Only)","offer_id":50205157032214,"sku":"RMX-49265","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/3d64d6ed0067d3910b140b2c52557ce6.png?v=1751554624","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/zushi-naoki-paradise-2025-reissue","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}