Hino-Kikuchi Duo – Edges (2007) [Japan only Release] [SACD / Sony Records Int’l – SICP 10096]

Title: Hino-Kikuchi Duo – Edges (2007) [Japan only Release]
Genre: Jazz
Format: SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Collaboration album of two Japanese Jazz musicians – trumpeter Terumasa Hino and pianist Masabumi Kikuchi. The album received the Silver Award of the Japan Jazz Disc Awards.

Hino Terumasa and Kikuchi Masaaki, comrades and allies who have relentlessly pursued the cutting edge and the very essence of music. Their two souls resonated fatefully, and in 2007, they forged yet another legend. This work, forming a counterpart to the quintet album “Counter Current” which challenged the world as ultra-hardcore authentic jazz, flows with the crystalline time of two musicians confronting each other with the tension of a serious contest, exchanging an unspoken dialogue. It is art pushed to its limits, where the “edge” forged by years of clandestine struggle towards supreme music is brought into sharp relief. The world of beauty, polished by the tireless refinement of these seekers, deeply and quietly heals the soul. In addition to newly written original compositions, the album also includes Hino’s breakthrough work ‘Alone, Alone and Alone’ and the standard ‘I Fall in Love Too Easily’. Each solo can also be enjoyed.

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Tracklist:

01. Edges (Ver.1)
02. Is It?
03. Alone, Alone And Alone
04. Can’t Describe
05. I Fall In Love Too Easily
06. Dad, I Miss You
07. My Kinda Yesterday
08. Edges (Ver.2)

Personnel:

Terumasa Hino – trumpet
Masabumi Kikuchi – piano

Note:

Produced by Terumasa Hino and Masabumi Kikuchi.
Recorded and mixed by Adrian von Ripka Recorded at Avatar Studios (New York) on June 20 & 21,2007.
Mixed at Bauer Studios (Ludwigsburg) in June 2007. Mastered by Machiko Suzue (Sony Music Studios Tokyo).

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