The Mystery Kindaichi Band is a Japanese experimental band masterminded in 1977 by composer Kentaro Haneda, with an all-star
lineup of the best jazz-funk studio musicians mid-‘70s Japan offered,
including Hideo Ichikawa, Jun Moriya, Tadaomi Anai and Koji Hadori. Despite the misleading soundtrack
designation in its title, this isn’t a film score. Instead, the album
was conceived as an audio interpretation of Seishi Yokomizo’s famed
fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi.
The band plays with a looseness akin to that of
Japan’s at-the-time bursting city-pop scene. They perform gaiety and
slick disco-funk bookmarked with forlorn digressions. Many of the tracks
divulge into effervescent escapes wherein members of The Mystery
Kindaichi Band bounce off of each other. Most of these free-form
dioramas follow unrelated, though nonetheless endearing, introductions.
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