Back to Yoshio Suzuki with 1979's Matsuri

 

I posted his material earlier of course here and here.  As I said at the time I grew to really love his early 80s albums with the gentle synthesizer patterns, not only relaxing but almost entrancing too, with enough oddness in the chords or originality in the ideas to not make it generic new age.

I'm not at all sure why this LP is so hard to find, but here it is, a bit less fusion and more modal jazz than the others I posted.  Note the comment: Recorded at R.P.M. studio NY in 1979.  Odd that they couldn't find a better location in which to shoot his photo with the big-ass headphones for the cover above.

The Little Lady which is the track that closes out the disc has that same entrancing piano sound I love, although sadly only played on the grand piano: