YASUAKI SHIMIZU & SAXOPHONETTES "Latin" (JAP,1991)

Few may remember...

...a 24 miniature-themes (composed for tv commercials) album, that great Made to Measure series included in its volumes in 1987.

Others may know him from...

...saxophone versions of BACH`s cello suites (1996 and 1999)

From his long catalogue of works, collaborations, contributions etc, i would also mention....

...fake,parody (1983)

...multicultural crossings (1987)

...film music (1990)...

... and i would be mad curious to listen to...how much more peculiar his "experimental begginings" could have been...

...solo (1979) ...

...(IQ-179, 1981)...

... (kakushi,1982)...

... or with rock band MARIAH...

The album we are giving you, here, to listen to...

LATIN

...is composed in 1983 and inspired by his father crazy vocal version on "Besame Mucho". "LATIN" goes, though, further than being a simple latin-hit parody. YASUAKI SHIMIZU (Saxophonettes simply...is only him) developes an avant electronic-jazz-dance-ethno-minimal-fusion, a music language that steals things from several sources and combines them in a very charm way, emphasizing both in rhythm modernity and romantism of mellow tunes. This discreetly advanced work released finally in 1991, 8 years delayed. YASUAKI, himself, says that "aging gives it a richer flavour". Certainly, it still hides easily its age.

LATIN (88mb)

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http://www.yasuaki-shimizu.com/

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