CD reissue of 1969 album. The career of the Helpful Soul was a real case of wrong place, wrong time - for they hit their blues stride just as heavy blues was becoming hard rock, and graduated to heavy rock too late to capitalise on even that brief fad. However, they recorded one outstanding track, the ten-minutes-plus of "Peace For Fools", which appeared on their otherwise bog-standard blues dirge debut LP. This track in itself separates them from all Japanese blues bands for it is a Kim Fowleyan masterpiece of Jim Morrison mystical doggerel/truly possessed nihilist genius. Unfortunately, leader Junio Nakahara was so inspired by witnessing a performance by Blues Creation, when his band supported them at the Too Much Festival, that he was soon after driven to change his own name to Tstomu Ogawa while his band became known as ... Too Much. (JC)
01 Main title 02 Aldin's theme 03 Lovely MIlliam 04 An enchanted night 05 Plundering of a slave 06 The torture 07 The dance of the bandits 08 Media's theme 09 The flying wooden horse 10 The love of Jallis 11 Cheerful Aldin 12 The contest of plundered treasures
13 The horse racing 14 The construction of Aldin's tower 15 End title