Kyoto Jazz Massive - Behind The Shadow

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Both Shuya and Yoshihiro Okino began their DJ career the late 80’s in Kyoto.
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Title: Spirit Of The Sun
Release: 1 October 2002
Cat.-No.: CPT 114-1/-2/-3
Format: LP2 / CD / Digital
“Behind the Shadow”
The Brightness of these Days, Eclipse, Between the Lights and Shine - most of the track title in this album is related to the Sun. This track has yet another curious title name - and it parallels with the sound as an aggressive and deep jazzy house. With heavy base line and edgy keys played by Hajime invites and completes the album listeners to the dramatic world of the Kyoto Jazz Massive.
Like so many other Jazz DJs, the Rare Groove movement in London had a great impact on them. During the peak of Acid Jazz, many international DJs and artists performed in Japan. There they met many influential people including, Paul Bradshaw from the UK magazine Straight No Chaser and Gilles Peterson. Their unit name was originated when Gilles had mentioned Shuya and Yoshi in the Chaser article calling them -- the “Kyoto Jazz Massive”!
The older brother Shuya later moved to Tokyo and managed Monday Michiru and Mondo Grosso. His project of Mondo Grosso’s hit song “Soufflesh” MAW REMIX was epochal connecting Jazz and House music. His commitment to support the Jazz scene in Tokyo as a director and resident DJ for the club, THE ROOM is well-known.
The sound of Kyoto Jazz Massive is often associated with Jazz Fusion. They were certainly influenced by Japanese Jazz musicians particularly the ones that succeed in the world during 70’s and 80’s, such as Terumasa Hino, Teruo Nakamura, and Ryo Kawasaki.
These artists didn’t just play the imported foreign music conservatively but instead they have created their own Jazz identity and were accepted worldwide.
They collaborated with artists like Herbie Hancock, Steve Grossman, Lonnie Smith, and Harry Whitaker and embraced other genres of music such as Brazilian, Soul, and Rock to their Jazz. Kyoto Jazz Massive achieves to do the same - to deliver the spirit of Jazz from Japan travelling across the world. The image of Jazz is too overpowering at times where people often picture piano, wood-base, saxophone, drums…and the given image limits to one style of Jazz music. However, it is in the spirit of Jazz where Kyoto Jazz Massive finds freedom and fascinated by its forwardness with time.
Jazz has transformed from Swing, Bop, Cool, Funky and Spiritual and it keeps evolving. Witnessing as Jazz fused with Soul, Funk and other ethnic rhythm during the 70’s, Kyoto Jazz Massive tries to cross over Jazz with Techno, House and Broken Beats.
On this album “Spirit of the Sun” Kyoto Jazz Massive attempts to carry on the spirits to follow their predecessor who dissolved music barriers and categories. It is hoped that in 30 years the album will still be appreciated, as it should be, since they believe and applied the Jazz principle - its freedom to fuse, collaborate and experiment in order to evolve and create new sounds.
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