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    Posted: July 15 2022 at 16:17
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Atavachron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2022 at 17:49
Okay.  Well, the Nakamura is fine if a little slow.  But it's funky, man, I mean that is 1976.  The other link sounds like a tape of me and my friends jamming in 1989.

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I love Crosswinds, Kenso, Kazumi Wantanabe, and Bondage Fruit .
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Casiopea vs. The Square Live is a phenomenal Japanese fusion album.
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I got loads, but I'll start with Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos as I just love their groove (and so will you)












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Japanese fusion/yacht rock/citypop and the sort form the late 70's/80's is pretty popular with people in their 20's these days I feel. I personally really enjoy it too, though there's a lot of it, so you do risk finding something bland. There's quite a couple of Casiopea and Masayoshi Takanaka that gets boosted by the Youtube algorithm for some reason. Casiopea has quite a good debut album. After that they kind of lost their touch (and drummer, I thnk). I'd personally recommend Himiko Kikuchi. I recently acquired her debut album on CD, but a lot of them are hard to find (goes for a lot of japanese jazz, really).

There doesn't seem to be a lot of this kind of stuff on PA, by the way. A bit too smooth? It does fit in the Jazz Fusion genre technically.




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When I think "Japanese jazz-fusion," the first word that comes to mind is KENSO.

This is a live rendition of "Gips" from the live album Ken-Son-Gu-Su. The studio version is found on Esoptron.




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The only ones I know of are Kenso, Ain Soph and maybe a little bit of Asturias.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:


Yes Raindog is wonderful. I think my favorite is this one though







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