Miyazawa

Live recording from 23rd November 2012 at Tokyo Opera City Hall of Tomita's latest orchestral work ( Ihatov is a fictional place created by poet/author Kenji Miyazawa derived from his native Iwate prefecture). Featuring about 300 musicians; The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, a chamber chorus, a junior high school choir, and lead 'vocaloid' by digital female star Hatsune Miku, a synthesizer application who appears as an animated projection. Behind this extraordinary spectacle was Isao Tomita, who composed the symphony and cleverly incorporated the vocaloid into an orchestral work for the first time. Now 80 years old, Orchestra Ihatov has been billed as Tomita's magnum opus, expressing the 'psychedelic' and colourful world of Miyazawa's literature, that Tomita has been a fan of since he was a child. The two worlds of Tomita, the orchestral and electronic combining with spectacular results.

Okhotsk Genso is a new track composed by Tomita, inspired by a ficticious letter written by the sister of poet/author Kenji Miyazawa to Miyazawa, who inspired his latest original work, Symphony Ihatov. Tracks 2-7 were previously on Daphnis et Chloe (although three tracks from the orginal Daphnis et Chloe are not included) and tracks 8-12, were previously on the double album, Sound Creature released in 1977, and are released onto CD for the first time. Sound Creature originally demonstrated how Tomita created his works by stripping the sound down and through sound and illustrations in the booklet how the final version came into being.

Great album by the top Japanese jazz players of the time (Sadao Watanabe, Akira Miyazawa, Hideto Kanai, Takeshi Inomata, Eiichi Fuji…).

Really appreciated both by listeners & critics, more than just a compilation, Break n' Bossa has been, during the years, the exact mirror of a music scene, rather, it was the project that literally invented a new music genre, giving a connotation & a point of reference to the growing up scene. Schema Records helped in its development with all its artists.

Takeshi Shibuya - Cook Note (1977) {2018 Octave Lab OTLCD2357}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Piano

Takeshi Shibuya is a Japanese jazz pianist who also worked as a film composer. Takeshi Shibuya worked in the Tokyo jazz scene from the late 1960s a. a. with Nobuo Hara, with whom the first recordings were made in 1969/70. In the 1970s he played with Masayuki Takayanagi, Kunihiko Sugano and Shun Sakai, and he also arranged for the singer Ryoko Moriyama. In 1975 he made his debut album Dream, a live recording from Club Pannonica in Kagoshima with Tatsuhiro Matsumoto (bass) and Yoshitaka Uematsu or Sumiaki Matsushima (drums); 1977 followed the trio album Cook Note (Trio Records, with Tamio Kawabata, Shoichi Miyazawa), 1982 the solo album Shibyan !. From the 1980s he also accompanied the vocalists Maki Asakawa, Akira Sakata and Hideko Okiyama.

Following the sell-out success of our landmark compilation, J Jazz: deep modern jazz from Japan 1969-1984, BBE Records is thrilled to present another exploration into the very finest Japanese modern jazz.