Formed in the mid-‘70s, Tokyo’s Moonriders gave Japanese rock an imaginative makeover. Influential albums like Modern Music (1979) meshed contemporary new wave and art rock trends with meandering cosmic jams and outlandish melodic diversions that could veer into absurdism. Led by eminent co-founder Keiichi Suzuki, the band’s trumpet and sitar-wielding musicians were instrumental in the ensemble’s ingeniously varied output. Before they branched out into solo works and other projects, the Moonriders devised a grandly distinctive rock vision that remains playfully accessible.