Ki-Oku

by Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush

Ki-Oku cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 August 1996
  • Label: Apollo
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 56:43
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A masterful, highly sophisticated collaboration bridging avant-garde jazz improvisation with the darkest depths of Japanese abstract hip-hop. Toshinori Kondo's heavily processed, deeply atmospheric trumpet playing glides effortlessly over DJ Krush's incredibly dense, vinyl-scratched trip-hop breakbeats. The resulting nocturnal soundscape is a profoundly meditative, cinematic touchstone of the 1990s instrumental hip-hop movement.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, rhythmic, japanese, improvisation, sampling, experimental, ambient, minimal

Tracklist

  1. 透睡 Toh-Sui (4:57)
  2. 扉-1 Tobira-1 (0:35)
  3. 無月 Mu-Getsu (6:20)
  4. 波動 Ha-Doh (5:24)
  5. Sun Is Shining (6:52)
  6. 夢宙 Mu-Chu (6:28)
  7. 扉-2 Tobira-2 (0:45)
  8. 浮遊 Fu-Yu (4:56)
  9. 帰幻 Ki-Gen (4:40)
  10. 孤空 Ko-Ku (5:24)
  11. 昇花 Shoh-Ka (4:40)
  12. 舞石 Bu-Seki (4:58)
  13. 扉-3 Tobira-3 (0:44)

Credits

  • Bob Marley - written-by

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