Makoto Kubota & The Sunset Gang - Sunset Gang smika Label: Yen Records

Label: Yen Records

Kifu Mitsuhashi is a great master of Koto style shakuhachi

Vocals – Tsugutoshi Goto

tugging strings harder and harder until we begin to lift toward the heavens

His ability to fuse Western jazz with the driving rhythms created by his oud that seems almost sequenced

Makoto Kubota & The Sunset Gang - Sunset Gang smika Label: Yen RecordsLabel: We Want Sounds (UK) Catalog: WWSLP 056LP Wewantsounds continue its Makoto Kubota retrospective with the reissue of Sunset Gang recorded in 1973 for Showboat. The album, co produced by Kinji Yoshino (Haruomi Hosono, Akiko Yano, Sachiko Kanenobu) and featuring Hosono, Minako Yoshida and Taeko Ohnuki, was released as Kubota had just recorded his classic first solo album, Machibouke. It marks the start of the group's unique sound mixing Japanese