Ned Doheny - Hard Candy hazy Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo Fujimoto

Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo Fujimoto hit all the right (and sometimes not-exactly-right-but-truly-genius) notes to create the odd and beautiful

and you startle slightly but find your footing with a well-trained portrait smile

often with a loop station accompanying the main riff

Maxi Anderson

Photography By – Norito Yoshimura

Ned Doheny - Hard Candy hazy Ichiko Hashimoto and Atsuo FujimotoLabel: Be With Records (UK) Catalog: BEWITH 003LP 2024 repress. Ned Doheny's Hard Candy, originally released in 1976, is widely considered the finest blue eyed soul album of all time. It has long been a source of great frustration then, that this perfectly formed Southern California masterpiece has been unavailable on vinyl for almost 40 years. Be With Records continues apace by marking its third release with the first officially licensed reissue of