Motohiko Hamase, 3 albums (1986-1988)

Here's an artist I didn't know about at all, surprisingly, despite the perfect meld of classical chamber music, jazz, and progressive keyboard elements.  The music is often laid-back and meditative but at least in the first two albums rarely boring, with many surprising turns.  It's hard to really compare it to any other artist, maybe a little like the keyboard artistry of famed Kenneth Knudsen featured here prominently but lacking completely the jazz/fusion high energy elements.  I also thought that atmospherically it suited the lockdowns of this pandemic time perfectly.  A good example is the title track of Intaglio, with its perfectly well composed harp concerto feel, similar to most well-thought-out classical music there is no repetition whatsoever in themes or melodies and no elements improvised, just passage after passage of new musical ideas: