2006年10月8日
BRAGILE / miho folio

miho folio is a solo project by Toshihiro Horio who roots his musical inspiration from various pop music, Brazilian and Jazz music such as Eric Dolphy and Joan Gilberto."Bragile" is his debut album - a snapshot of those various roots music blending together.
The layers of hip hop flavored cut-up phrases forms an impressive harmony and the simple melodies are singing the positive feeling gently. The electronics flows to a tender and deep atmosphere and arouses the shimmering beautiful ambient-scape.
"Bragile" is full of pop essences - unexpected developments, comfortable chords, lyrical melody senses, uplifting rhythm patterns etc and the more you listen, the more you will get captured by the music. And then, you will find yourself elevating moderately to the colorful tones.
RADIO - ACOUSTIQUE / masayasu tzboguchi trio

Pianist & Composer, Masayasu Tzboguchi (from Tokyo Zawinul Bach, DATE COURSE PENTAGON ROYAL GARDEN) drops a new album showing new directions of acoustic/electronic Jazz. This is his first album in this kind of project where various elements such as afro funk, electronica, reggae and avant-garde mixes into the jazz based sound. Indeed the birth of cool & thrilling music.
This is a "reconstruction" album using original performance of the trio; Masayasu Tzboguchi (Piano), Masaaki Kikuchi (AC. Bass), Nobuo Fujii (Drums) . These 10 tracks were made under a concept to deconstruct the original materials from this performance and build them up again in a contemporary method/perspective.
The organic combination of the electronic effects with their performances of mellow ballad, rhythmic afro funk, freeform session, poly-swing track (3 people playing in 3 different tempos) resulted to something original showing new directions of his works that would expand the definition of jazz. In this album, you could also hear collaboration works with other foreign/domestic artists within the same concept - Jan Jelinek, AOKI takamasa, Sora, DIll and Pardon Kimura rearranges and recomposes their original materials.
2005年10月4日
LOVE HOME / trico!

