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01. Shunzo Ohno - In The Sky (1979)
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02. Mikio Masuda - Let's Get Together (1979)
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03. Yasuaki Shimizu - Summer Time (1979)
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04. David Matthews - Special Delivery (1980)
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05. Toshiyuki Honda - Living In A City (1980)
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06. Ronnie Foster - Night Life (1986)
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07. Bobby Lyle Trio - Night Breeze (1987)
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08. Katsutoshi Morizono - Space Traveller (1978)
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ARTIST
DJ NOTOYA
TITLE
Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz-Funk From Electric Bird 1978-87
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
WEWANTSOUNDS
CATALOG #
WWSCD 081CD
WWSCD 081CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
5/10/2024
A stylish selection of jazz-funk from Japanese label Electric Bird, selected by
DJ Notoya
and featuring
Yasuaki Shimizu
,
Shunzo Ohno
,
Bobby Lyle
,
Toshiyuki Honda
,
Mikio Masuda
,
David Matthews
, and
Ronnie Foster
. Following the success of the
Tokyo Glow
compilation, Wewantsounds once again teams up with Japanese Tokyo-based DJ Notoya to dig the rich Electric Bird catalogue and come with a versatile selection of sunny jazz-funk gems recorded between 1978 and 1987 for the label. Most tracks make their vinyl debut outside of Japan and the album has been designed by
Optigram/Manuel Sepulveda
and is annotated by DJ Notoya. Audio newly remastered in Tokyo by King Records. A sub-label from the venerable Japanese label King Records, Electric Bird was set up in 1977 to cater for the booming Nippon jazz funk audience that King -- as the Japanese licensee for such US jazz labels at Blue Note or CTI -- had grown for years. Taking advantage of their experience and the many contacts King had garnered through their American partners, Electric Bird, headed by in-house producer
Shigeyuki Kawashima
, decided to apply the same formula to their new label. Kawashima began signing a new wave of jazz musicians from Japan, putting them in state-of-the-art Tokyo or New York studios and backing them with the best American and Japanese players in order to shape the slick, sun-drenched jazz funk sound that would be Electric Bird's signature sound. With
Funk Tide
, DJ Notoya aimed at showcasing the diversity of the label's output, from the funky opener "In The Sky" by Trumpeter
Shunzo Ohno
to the sunshine mid-tempo groove of sax player Toshiyuki Honda's "Living in a City" featuring
Paulinho Da Costa
on perc via
Mikio Masuda
's Fender Rhodes-infected "Let's Get Together." One of
Funk Tide
's highlights is certainly
Katsutoshi Morizono
's "Space Traveller" from 1978, a remake of
James Vincent
's eponymous cult classic recorded two years before with some of
Earth Wind And Fire
's musicians and which has since become a favorite on the groove scene. Faithful to Vincent's beautiful laid-back, breezy original, Morizono's rendition add its own spice to it, and ending Notoya's skilled selection of the cutting-edge Electric Bird label on a perfect note.
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