🇯🇵 JAPAN IMPORT, VINYL ONLY 🇯🇵 Soul Media - Funky Stuff (Clear Pink Vinyl)

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● Clear Pink Vinyl Edition
● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-193
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1975

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Clear Pink Vinyl LP with obi strip, pressed and printed in Japan
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
● Clear Pink Vinyl Edition
● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-193
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1975

*** VINYL ONLY RELEASE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION COMING WITH THIS RELEASE ***

Includes unlimited streaming of 🇯🇵 JAPAN IMPORT, VINYL ONLY 🇯🇵 Soul Media - Funky Stuff (Clear Pink Vinyl) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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● Clear Pink Vinyl Edition
● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-193
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1975
● Listen: youtu.be/kjxxVkSd0XA?si=fGCalPJCDaxyXIO9
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Written and arranged by Hiromasa Suzuki, and originally released in 1975 on Nippon Columbia, this album is incredible, and truly well-named - funky stuff, indeed! Fat bass, a great variety of guitar sounds, horns and organ, and crisp drums: this is an instant favorite!

From the end of the 1960s, saxophonist Jiro Inagaki led groups such as The Soul Mates, and His Black Rhythm Machine, blasting down the jazz rock road before forming Soul Media in 1969. The album Funky Stuff, Inagaki’s final work of his jazz rock era, was released in 1975 on Nippon Columbia, and was written and arranged by pianist Hiromasa Suzuki. Inagaki said of Suzuki: "His ideas were innovative and his phrases were sparkling. He could write songs that were 'catchy' in a good way." Funky Stuff is a masterpiece born from the combination of Suzuki's exceptional musical qualities and the artistic direction taken by Soul Media at the time.

(Words by Yusuke Ogawa - Universounds)

Tracklist:

A1 - Painted Paradise
A2 - Funky Motion
A3 - Breeze
A4 - Scratch
B1 - Funky Stuff
B2 - One For Jiro
B3 - Gentle Wave
B4 - Four Up

Personnel:

Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Flute, Producer – Jiro Inagaki
Electric Piano – Hiromasa Suzuki
Drums – Hajime Ishimatsu
Bass – Akira Okazawa
Guitar – Hiroshi Yasukawa
Trombone – Takashi Imai

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