OTOMO YOSHIHIDE SPECIAL BIG BAND : Stone Stone Stone

'This album, the first under the band's name in six and a half years, is a jazz alternative album with a multilingual and hardcore taste that differs greatly from previous albums.
The recording for this album started in June 2020, during a period when many of our activities were being cancelled due to COVID-19. It had been a while since I last met or played with the members of this band, with whom prior to the pandemic I would regularly get together for gigs at various venues or travel around the country every summer to perform at regional festivals. I also asked friends who lived far away to remotely take part in this project. I called upon everyone, of course, because I wanted to make music with them, but also as a way to just stay in touch. The project began at a time when I desperately missed being around my friends and colleagues. On both a conscious and unconscious level, the compositions, mixing, and the overall album structure reflect on what was happening around us in Japan and in the rest of the world during this time. An underlying theme for this album was, “How can we respond to global events that we see on the news with an urgency as if they were happening nearby?” I wanted the distribution of this album and how its profits were split to also address these same issues, which motivated me to release it on my new label, Little Stone Records. Otomo Yoshihide'



CD tracklist：
1 Stone Stone Stone
2 悲しくてやりきれない　Kanashikute Yarikirenai
3 Music for Kinue Hitomi
4 孤独の歳月　Années de solitude ( CD only )
5 Song for Che ~ Reducing Agent ( CD only )
6 GINGA
7 Music for Taiji Tonoyama
8 Gallophy
9 Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong

OTOMO YOSHIHIDE SPECIAL BIG BAND / 大友良英スペシャルビッグバンド
〈メンバー〉
大友良英 Otomo Yoshihide, guitar, turntable 江藤直子 Eto Naoko, piano
近藤達郎 Kondo Tatsuo, organ
齋藤寛 Saito Kan, flute 井上梨江 Inoue Nashie, clarinet
鈴木広志 Suzuki Hiroshi, sax
江川良子 Egawa Ryoko, sax
東涼太 Higashi Ryota, sax
佐藤秀徳 Sato Shutoku, trumpet
今込治 Imagome Osamu, trombone
木村仁哉 Kimura Jinya, tuba
大口俊輔 Okuchi Shunsuke, accordion
かわいしのぶ Kawai Shinobu, bass
小林武文 Kobayashi Takefumi, drums
イトケン Itoken, drums 上原なな江 Uehara Nanae, marimba, percussion
相川瞳 Aikawa Hitomi, percussion
Sachiko M, sine waves
〈ゲストメンバー〉
Chris Pitsiokos, alto sax