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Floating Rabka --- 2020

CUBIC ZERO 吉田野乃子 Nonoko Yoshida (sax) 本山禎朗 Tomoaki Motoyama (keyboard) 佐々木伸彦 Nobuhiko Sasaki (guitar) 大久保太郎 Taro Okubo (bass) 渋谷徹 Toru Shibuya (drums, ジンギスカン鍋) 札幌在住のミュージシャンと結成した5人組の前衛エレクトリックジャズロックバンド、2年ぶりのフルアルバム。ファンク、フュージョン、レゲエ、ブルースなどのエッセンスを取り入れ、北海道名物ジンギスカンが焼ける音とジンギスカン鍋を叩く音、宇宙人の声(?)なども収録した、エンターテイメント性も十分な作品。ジャケットアートは東京在住のアーティスト、田巻裕一郎氏の描き下ろし。 Track 1 and 14 written by Nonoko Yoshida (ASCAP) Track 2, 12 written by Toru Shibuya Track 3, 4, 6-9, 11, 13 written by Tomoaki Motoyama Track 5, 10 written by Taro Okubo Recorded at Studio Riccio, Sapporo, Hokkaido, April 2020 Mixed and mastered at Studio Riccio, April and August 2020 Sound Engineering by Yoshihiro Tsukahara Artwork and design by 田巻裕一郎 Yuichiro Tamaka Band Photo by Toshishige Mizoguchi "Cubic Zero is Nonoko Yoshida on alto sax, Nobuhiko Sasaki on guitar, Tomoaki Motoyama on keyboard, Taro Okubo on bass and Tobu Shibuya on drums. This is the second disc by Cubic Zero, their first was released in 2018 and was a favorite of mine. Since moving back to Japan several years ago, alto saxist and founder of Pet Bottle Ningen, Nonoko Yoshida has kept busy running her own Nonoya label and releasing a variety of sessions with other like-minded musicians in Japan. The title song is first and it starts out as a quirky new wavish ditty before it launches into a brutal, tight, post-punk eruption! Way intense! “Bismarck” seems to blend post-punk spirit with tight, a fusion jazz/rockin’ groove, infectious 70’s sounding electric piano solo and a couple of brutal guitar & sax solos. “Maina - Steel Dandyism” actually has a reggae/dub groove, greasy organ and some great funky sax from Nonoko. Overall, all of these tracks sound like they were recorded in the mid-seventies on analog equipment with no excessive digital BS to take away the organic sound. “Oriental Momiji” has another infectious prog/fusion groove/sound which makes me smile,going from one extreme (normal el jazz) to some crazed, post-punk blow-ups. What I dig about this disc is that it is a modest effort, strong, spirited and inventive without hitting us too hard with any extreme wanking. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DowntownMusicGallery