SEVILLA BREEZE [Limited Release]

Himiko Kikuchi, a world-class female keyboardist representative of Japan, has her second album from her CBS Sony era, "SEVILLA BREEZE" (released in 1988), released on vinyl for the first time. With the music of G. Bizet's opera "Carmen" and Spanish music as motifs, it is a masterpiece Latin jazz to fusion album in which fluid and vivid keyboards dance freely against the backing of a dynamic heavyweight rhythm section and a sharp horn section that responds as if competing with it. It includes the high-speed Cuban to Latin jazz "TOREADOR" full of rampant virtuosity, covers from G. Bizet's opera "Carmen" -- "GYPSY SONG from Carmen" and "SEGUIDILLA from Carmen" -- the Latin to funky fusion "SEVILLA BREEZE" and "PRIMAVELA" on which Naoki Watanabe (bass) and Atsuo Okamoto (drums) of the Spectrum and AB'S camp, along with Yoshinori Nomi (percussion), are active, and the relaxed and mellow "BLUE GIBRALTAR" and "SIESTA." Completely limited production edition.

*Since this product is extremely limited, only one copy may be purchased by a customer.

日本を代表する世界レベルの女性キーボーディスト、菊池ひみこが1988年に発表したCBSソニー時代の2枚目のアルバム『SEVILLA BREEZE』を初アナログ化。G.ビゼーの歌劇『カルメン』の音楽やスペインの音楽をモチーフに、躍動する重量リズムセクションと競うように応戦する鋭利なホーン・セクションをバックに流麗で鮮烈な鍵盤が自由自在に舞う傑作ラテン・ジャズ～フュージョン・アルバム。超絶技巧が横行する高速キューバン～ラテン・ジャズ「TOREADOR」、G.ビゼーの歌劇『カルメン』から「GYPSY SONG from Carmen」「SEGUIDILLA from Carmen」のカヴァー、スペクトラム～AB'S組の渡辺直樹 (b)と岡本郭男 (ds)、納見義徳 (perc)が活躍するラテン～ファンキーフュージョン「SEVILLA BREEZE」「PRIMAVELA」、リラックス&メロウな「BLUE GIBRALTAR」「SIESTA」などを収録。完全生産限定盤。