Kylyn
by Kazumi Watanabe
- Type: Album
- Released: 25 June 1979
- Label: Better Days
- Country: Japan
- Length: 44:50
- Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Featuring a staggering lineup of Japanese instrumental heavyweights, notably Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards, 'Kylyn' is an absolute triumph of precision-engineered jazz-rock. Kazumi Watanabe's guitar work is breathtakingly fast and fluid, perfectly matching the album's hyper-complex, funk-driven rhythms. It serves as a defining bridge between high-octane fusion and the emerging, sophisticated City Pop sound.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion, technical
Tracklist
- 199X (1:56)
- Sonic Boom (6:30)
- Water Ways Flow Backward Again (5:17)
- Milestones (8:15)
- E-Day Project (5:45)
- Akasaka Moon (4:34)
- Kylyn (2:29)
- I'll Be There (6:38)
- Mother Terra (3:26)
Credits
- Toshiyuki Honda - alto saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone [solo]
- Ray Ohara - bass
- Shuichi Murakami - drums
- Mikio Masuda - electric piano [cp-70 electric grand], electric piano [fender rhodes]
- Pecker - percussion
- Yasuaki Shimizu - tenor saxophone
- Shigeharu Mukai - trombone
- Akiko Yano - music by, piano [acoustic], piano [acoustic], synthesizer [arp odyssey solo], electric piano [fender rhodes], electric piano [fender rhodes], vocals, lyrics by