Some of the best music he made or recorded with are on Talk You and Ganaesia.
No surprise here because these recordings are under the artist name Kazumi Band, which featured as keyboardist our beloved Masanori Sasaji featured on this blog before here with his two brilliant fusion works from around the same period in time.
As well, he was in the one-off fusion outfit from 1980 called Sunburst, with the lovely photo of the old New York City with the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, and the Mainieri and Brecker band Steps posted on this blog to completion here.
From 1981's Talk you all tight, the astonishingly brilliant song title The Great Revenge of the Hong Kong Woman:
I love how he developed that octaved electric guitar riff almost instantly into synthesizer patterns a la Wakeman or Emerson, moving into various electric passages throughout a song that seems to keep changing every minute or two, never mind the wonderful duet solos between synth and electric guitar.
From 1982's Ganaesia, a track called Moenega with all the right fusionary moves: the unusual chords, the dramatic buildups, the crazy fast energy alternating with quieter passages, etc. and it all ends with some really stunning dissonant riffs:
These compositions are almost as good as the Sasaji stuff, I think you'll agree.
From Sunburst, Mysterious vibes is also quite delightful:
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks again for all the Watanabe goodness - I discovered Milky Shade for the first time a few weeks ago and love the title track along with Mirrors. I've been on a Japanese jazz kick again lately and it's frustrating that there's so many great releases that are almost impossible to find reissues of outside of Japan, let alone the original LPs. It's crazy that it's so hard to find the CD reissues of, say Teruo Nakamura's 'New York' albums despite the fact that they were (relatively speaking) successful at the time and released on Polydor. I've had them on vinyl for a long time but the copies ain't great.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it's all down to licensing laws but it'd be nice if artists like Watanabe, Nakamura, Mikio Masuda etc. were better represented on the bloody iTunes store at the very least! Anyway thanks again for sharing so many hard to find gems.
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