Ronin Arkestra – Sonkei (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ronin Arkestra – Sonkei (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:55 minutes | 564 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Headed up by jazz-man and broken beat hero Mark de Clive-Lowe, Tokyo’s Ronin Arkestra is an all-star collective that includes members of some of Japan’s leading jazz and electronic music outfits. We shouldn’t really be surprised, then, that debut album “Sonkei” is rather special. It features some suitably grandiose and epic contemporary jazz workouts – see “Onkochishin”, the wonderfully spiritual and dancefloor-friendly “The Art of Altercation” and loose-limbed closing cut “Tempestuous Temperaments” – but the influence of other forms of music (most notably dub, ambient and electronica) is evident throughout, often in subtle and surprising ways. In other words, it sounds like a future jazz classic in the making.

Tracklist:
1. Ronin Arkestra – Lullabies of the Lost (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Shun Ishiwaka) (01:31)
2. Ronin Arkestra – Onkochishin (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Shun Ishiwaka) (06:45)
3. Ronin Arkestra – Elegy of Entrapment (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Nobuaki Fuji) (06:30)
4. Ronin Arkestra – The Art of Altercation (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Hiraku Arata) (05:54)
5. Ronin Arkestra – Cosmic Collisions (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Hiraku Arata) (07:48)
6. Ronin Arkestra – Circle of Transmigration (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Nobuaki Fuji) (04:31)
7. Ronin Arkestra – Fallen Angel (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Hiraku Arata) (08:45)
8. Ronin Arkestra – Tempestuous Temperaments (feat. Mark de Clive-Lowe, Shinpei Ruike, Tsuyoshi Kosuga, Wataru Hamasaki, Sauce81, Kenichi Ikeda, Kohei Ando, Shun Ishiwaka) (05:06)

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