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Hiroshi Sato - Time [HMJA-101 JPN 2015 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

I own three albums by Japanese keyboard whizz kid, Hiroshi Sato - well he was still in his twenties when this album was originally released in 1977 - Time was his second album and gets its debut outing to Needle Time from the 2015 HMV Japan repress.

Essentially a city-pop album, Time blends jazz, soul, funk and Japanese MOR-style harmonies into the broadest possible entertaining listening experience, it even has a bits of honky-tonk, Hawaiian surf-guitar & oriental blues thrown in for good measure. Harry Hosono supplies the bass for a few tracks (he had to be involved somewhere) and the jazz vocal harmonies are supplied by Time Five.

A1 Time
A2 Joint
A3 Minami Kaikisen
A4 Choit
A5 Yamate Hotel
A6 Bad Janky Blues
B1 Mezame
B2 Akanegumo-No Machi
B3 Black Coffee
B4 Island Fantasy
B5 Kage-Ni Mukatte
B6 Saigo-No Tejina
B7 Merry-Go-Round

Comments

  1. Blogmeister1 April 2022 at 14:59

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  2. ipoda932 April 2022 at 23:24

    Thanks, It's sound marvelous! Can you re-up your Orient rip please?

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  3. Anonymous4 April 2022 at 18:34

    Everything I've heard from Hiroshi Sato has been great. He was a remarkable keyboard player who did everything from straight jazz to quasi new wave, funk and city pop.

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