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This rare and unique album of pianist and composer Miho Keitarō is getting a first ever vinyl re-issue. "Sound Poesy 'Sachio'" is an album first released in 1969, taking inspiration from a close friend of Miho, Paris-born car racer Fujisawa Sachio who died in a test run accident the same year. With a lot of variety that goes from jazz to bossa nova, instrumental with a few vocal songs and some scat, this is also a great concept album with racecar sounds dubbed all over the music on A-side. Read more in a review I wrote here, and hear audio samples at Jet Set.

This follows a CD re-issue in 2008, part of the columbia*readymade jazz-rock series selected by Konishi Yasuharu.

Miho Keitarō & His Group "Sound Poesy 'Sachio'" (12")
三俣敬太郎と彼のグループ 「サウンドポエジー・サチオ」

A1. Start Your Engine
A2. Never My Love
A3. Listen People
A4. Time After Time
A5. Slip Stream
A6. Race Is Over
B1. One Note Samba
B2. Meditation
B3. Remember Of Paris
B4. Mas Que Nada
B5. Goin Out Of My Head
B6. I Wanna Be Around

Nippon Columbia/Jet Set JSLP110
Out now (9/11), ¥3800 (excl. 10% tax)
Order: Jet Set, HMV, Tower Records ^†
† Tower Records ships directly within Japan only. International orders are available via WorldShopping.