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Sunaga t̀ Experience live report
On Friday night I went to Sunaga t̀ Experience's first live at Daikanyama Air. Being scared that the small club could maybe fill up as soon as doors opened at 22:00, my friend Miwa and I got there on time but turned out the place was mostly empty for a few hours. We chatted while listening to the cool club jazz played by DJ Nishiyama Takashi. Then Sunaga Tatsuo took the tables and some serious dancing started. He was followed by Little Big Bee (aka Takamiya Eitetsu), until at about maybe 2am when the seven musicians walked up the small stage.
At the front row stood saxophonist Fujita Akito, trumpetist Makihara Masayuki and trombonist Sano Satoshi. Behind were pianist Dazai Yuri (who was previously produced by Sunaga-san, and who did all arrangements for this show), wood bassist Hayakawa Testsuya, and drummer Fujii Setsu (Sunaga-san said he's his favorite drummer in Japan). Sunaga-san sat at the back, at most times only his white hat was visible. I'm not too sure what he was doing, but he at least played some samples and did some MCing.
The show was much jazzier than I'd have thought. While Sunaga t̀ Experience's albums so far are usually very clubbish, often with a very bossa feel, the show was 90% pure jazz. I'd believe that his sound is being influenced by his recent successful series of "Jazz Allnighters" compilations, which even shows in his upcoming album's title ("A Letter from Allnighters"). Still it was very good, and reflected Sunaga-san's great sense.
They played about 8 songs, most of which had room for solos by several of the musicians. I think that my favorite performance was that of "Versiliana Samba" (released as a 12" in November 2004 and included on the new album), but more than that I loved the two songs for which beautiful singer Akiko joined, one of those was the great song "No Reason No Rhyme".
There was no encore, Sunaga-san excusing themselves saying they hadn't practiced any other songs, and as soon as the show finished Little Big Bee was back on the tables this time playing loud mainstream house that we didn't care too much for. After a while hanging around, we left and went to have a late night meal at Saizeria until the first trains.
Posted on May 1, 2006 at 16:16 | Tweet
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So it was a wild and happening experience to be cherished for the lifetime.Read your article and it seems that u enjoyed a lot. Who will not!Clubbing and music and all the crazy stuff going around. Hmmmmm!
Posted by joe on May 3, 2006 at 16:13