Mabumi Yamaguchi

RECORD STORE DAY 2019 EXCLUSIVE EDITION

Spare sounds, but beautifully woven together – all in service of these lovely long tracks that really highlight the soulful side of reedman Mabumi Yamaguchi! Each number here takes up half the side of a record – there's only four tracks in all – and Yamaguchi plays these slow-building, spiritually-searching solos on tenor and soprano sax – working with some great Fender Rhodes in the background on most numbers, plus bass and drums that build into the rhythms slowly – then get very full by the end of the record. The whole thing's wonderful – as powerful as it is poetic.

PERSONNEL:

• IKUO SAKURAI, bass
• HIDEO SEKINE, drums
• ICHIRO DOI, piano
• MABUMI YAMAGUCHI, tenor sax

Recorded January 1978.

TRACKS:

• A1. Dawn
• A2. Dewdrop

• B1. Distant Thunder
• B2. Leeward