Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet Sakamoto's music has consistently exuded

Sakamoto's music has consistently exuded a profound empathy

It's also an album that shows just how far electronic music has come

and Steve Lamos (drums

and music writer

and went on to become no doubt one of that century's major jazz figures

Niningashi - Heavy Way Artist_Kyoto Jazz Sextet Sakamoto's music has consistently exudedA long lost Japanese acid folk gem, Niningashis 1974 private press debut Heavy Way shimmers with originality, deft song writing and a dream like groove. Although he was training as a pharmacist, Kazuhisa Okubo was much more interested in prescribing musical medicine. A coming of age album, Heavy Way captured a turning point in Okubos life, and Japanese society more widely as a nostalgia for the pastoral calm of the traditional life, met the