Kimiko Kasai

An overlooked masterpiece from Herbie Hancock’s electric jazz-funk years, Kimiko Kasai’s Butterfly is set to be given its first ever international reissue.

Recorded in Tokyo and released in 1979, it features a collection of Kasai’s silken reinterpretations, from Herbie Hancock’s own disco monster ‘I Thought It Was You’, and a butter smooth rework of ‘Sunlight’, to the sun-drenched ballad ‘Butterfly’, and a bubbling version of Stevie Wonder’s timeless ‘As’.

PERSONNEL:

• Kimiko Kasai - vocals
• Bennie Maupin - Soprano & tenor sax
• Herbie Hancock - background vocals, piano, synthesizers
• Webster Lewis - organ, Rhodes piano
• Ray Obledo - guitar
• Paul Jackson - bass
• Bill Summers - percussion

Tokyo, October, 1979

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 01. I Thought It Was You
• 02. Tell Me A Bedtime Story
• 03. Head In The Clouds
• 04. Maiden Voyage

• SIDE B
• 01. Harvest Time
• 02. Sunlight
• 03. Butterfly
• 04. As