Honda Masato, long-awaited NEW album burst cutting edge sound centering on funk tune! Participating musicians Kajiwara Jun (G), Matsumoto Keiji (P / Key), Sakurai Tetsuo (B), Noritake Hiroyuki (Ds Besides familiar members of the recent "Honda Band", Bob James (P / Key) who also played the first collaboration in the previous work and Blue Note in February 2009, Tetsu Shiotani (P), Yuji Toriyama (G), Greg · Lee (B), Yamaki Hideo (Ds) participated. Although the whole is centered on Funk Tune, it is a musical instrument composition that freely swings from songs such as high-speed 16 beats, meter rhythms, bossa, slow ballads and various song composition, alto as well as soprano, tenor, baritone and flute.
There was something in the air in the urban corners of late ‘60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post-war years. Rejection of the Beatlemania-inspired Group Sounds and the squeaky clean College Folk movements led the rise of what came to be known in Japan as “New Music,” where authenticity mattered more than replicating the sounds of their idols.