“Ode to the Four Seasons of Japan (Shiki Showka)” / SADISTIC MIKA BAND Lyrics: Takeshi Matsuyama, Music Composed by Kazuhiko Kato Arrangement: Sadistic Mika Band Produced by Chris Thomas and Kazuhiko Kato This song is from their second album “BLACK SHIP (Kuro fune)” (Released November 5, 1974). // SADISTIC MIKA BAND (1974) Kazuhiko Kato - : Vocals, Guitars Kato Mika : Vocals Rei Ohara : Bass, Vocals, Percussions Yukihiro Takahashi : Drums, Percussions, Additional Vocals Masayoshi TAKANAKA : Guitars Yu Imai : Keyboards, Saxophone (English translation of the rough meaning of the Japanese lyrics) Ode to the Four Seasons of Japan (In winter) Silently falling snow at night hides all sound Everyone breathes tight and falls into a frozen sleep. (In spring) As the smoke from the peasants' burning fields rises faintly into the sky. Even the birds that herald spring have forgotten their songs and flown away. (In summer.) After the evening rain has passed, the smell of the earth fills the air. As if I can hear the sound of evening glories blooming, heralding the day's end. (In autumn) Beautiful twill brocade of autumn leaves weaving in and out of the foothills of the mountains The clear autumn wind blows far and wide, and the blue sky spreads high in the sky. BLACK SHIP(Kuro Fune)” (Released November 5, 1974) / Sadistic Mika Band Side A 1. “Sumie no kuni e (Toward the Land of Ink Painting)” (composed by Kazuhiko Kato) 2. “Something is coming from the sea” (Composed by Sadistics*) 3. “Time Machine ni Onegai” (Composed by Kazuhiko Kato) 4. “Black Ship(Kuro fune) (Kaei 6 (1853) June 2)” (Composed by Sadistics*) 5. “Black Ship(Kuro fune) (Kaei 6 (1853) June 3)”(Composed by Sadistics*) 6. “Black Ship(Kuro fune) (Kaei 6 (1853) June 6)”(Composed by Sadistics*) Side B 7. “Yoroshiku Douzo” (Composed by Sadistics*) 8. “Dontaku” (Composed by Kazuhiko Kato) 9. “Ode to the Four Seasons” (Composed by Kazuhiko Kato) 10. “Suki Suki Suki (Hei made Hittottobi)” (Composed by Rei Ohara) 11. “Typhoon Song”(Composed by Kazuhiko Kato and Rei Obara) 12. “Sayonara(Good bye)” (Composed by Kazuhiko Kato) ※The “Sadistics” in the composer's name is a song co-written by the four band members, Takanaka (G), Takahashi (D), Ohara (B), and Imai (K). //Christopher Thomas was the music supervisor for Pink Floyd's “Dark Side of the Moon,” released the previous year in 1973, The following year, he produced “Black Ship(Kuro fune)” by the Sadistic Mica Band. Therefore, “Black Ship” is the album with the closest production method to Dark Side of the Moon's sound making in the world.