The quartet made up of Hajime Yoshizawa, Masato Nakamura, Kiyoshi Ikeda and Nobuaki Fujii are back on top form with eight more future jazz classics. As Soil and Pimps finally received a well overdue European release, it’s great timing to continue the supply of Japanese jazz. We were given a taster of things to come at the end of 2005 with the Especial 12″ that included “Into The Sun” featuring Bembe Segue and the title track featuring then legend Pharoah Sanders. The beautiful vocalist Yukimi Nagano has also been drafted in on “Afloat”. The formula and sound we know and love continues, with loads more Flute, Piano and Saxophone solos over the baddest jazz percussion in town. Over the following months you should be guaranteed to hear the soon to be massive “Ai-No-Tabi”, assuming you support the right club nights and DJs. All in all, you need this.
