Ki-Oku

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.