菊地雅章 Masabumi Kikuchi - 火 Fire Artist_杉本喜代志 Kiyoshi Sugimoto Quintet partly because of the recently

partly because of the recently renewed interest in "yacht rock"

resulting an endlessly unique and physically affective bank of sounds that he can safely call his own

His raps often deal in boasts

Produced by Manfred Eicher

Soft as in a dream

菊地雅章 Masabumi Kikuchi - 火 Fire Artist_杉本喜代志 Kiyoshi Sugimoto Quintet partly because of the recentlyMASABUMI KIKUCHI, one of Japan's foremost jazz pianists, leaves behind his one of a kind electronic music masterpiece Japanesque: Six Elementsnow finally reissued! "Amidst the fiercely burning flames, silence emerges in the gaps between them. Just for an instant. The pitch black darkness gradually turns orange. Without a word, it tries to convey something. A message stronger than anything else lies there."