(Fusion) Kazumi Watanabe - The Spice of Life (1986) {Polydor K.K. / Domo H33P20145, Japan} - 1987, APE (image+.cue) lossless

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KAZUMI WATANABE / The Spice Of Life
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REM GENRE Fusion
REM DATE 1986
REM DISCID 770AFB09
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
TITLE "The Spice Of Life"
FILE "Kazumi Watanabe - The Spice Of Life.ape" WAVE
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    TITLE "Melancho"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Hiper K"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 03:29:37
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    TITLE "City"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 09:07:37
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Period"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 13:36:37
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Unt"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 20:15:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Na Starovia"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
    INDEX 01 26:03:00
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    TITLE "Lim-Poo"
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
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    TITLE "J.F.K."
    PERFORMER "Kazumi Watanabe"
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For those that love Bruford and Jeff Berlin working together you will love the infuence they bring to Kazumi's style and blazing playing. I owned the vinyl version first and played it to death. But the CD has an additional track that is very dark and more like an improv than any of the other selections. Bill uses his electronic/acoustic kit set-up and it works better here than with King Crimson. Since there are only three instruments for the most part (although Kazumni is all over the place with his guitar-synthesizer)this gives Bruford and Berlin a large presence and lots of room to do what they do best. The album has the feel of having very seperate tracks, the styles vary, but is very addicting and sounds great loud. I highly recommend it, it is really heavily influenced by Bruford and Berlin and could have been called Bill Bruford with.... Just as a note, I can not say that the second effort called "The Spice of Life Too" is of the same quality. It is really Kazumi's smooth jazz sound, very sweet and without any darkness or nastiness, very boring.

"Kazumi Watanabe has for the past 20 years been one of the top guitarists in fusion, a rock-oriented player whose furious power does not mask a creative imagination. Watanabe studied guitar at Tokyo's Yamaha Music School and he was a recording artist while still a teenager. In 1979, he formed the group Kylyn and, in 1983, he put together the Mobo band. Several of his recordings have been made available by Gramavision and they show that he ranks up with Al DiMeola (when he is electrified) and Scott Henderson among the pacesetters in the idiom."