Koo Voo 1/27/2023 release (Digital, CD & 2LP)

A playful music project by Koo a.k.a. Takuya Kuroda and Voo a.k.a. Marihito Ayabe (Chimp Beams, Loop Diary) both from Brooklyn, NY.

The two met as members of Main Space (started in 2008), an experimental rock band, and hit it off because of their musicality.
Amid each other's extremely busy schedules, they had a series of music sessions in their spare time to give each other updates on their recent activities. After 11 years, the album finally took shape. Kuroda's trumpet and keys dance on Ayabe's breakbeats.

Kuroda, an energetic and nimble jazz trumpet player with a hint of afro beat, and Ayabe, a dub beat maker with a dark and cosmic feel—the light chemical reaction between these opposing elements has opened a new musical page.

All performances are performed by Kuroda and Ayabe, who have deep roots in Brooklyn, and their unique friendship has made it possible for them to perform with guests such as Cory King (vocal, trombone), and DJ SPINNA (remix).

Enjoy the new world view of this album that transcends the genre filled with the flavor of the melting pot NY that scoops up this chaotic era.

Koo Voo

ESP-Disk' Cassette Collection vol.6
Limited edition chrome cassette tape with Dolby, special sleeve
Cassette ONLY! NO music download!
CSD release 10/14/2017 

Side A:
1. Seven by Seven (26:07)
Side B:
1. Bethera (23:31)

Recorded on September 10, 1964, prior to his well-known association with John Coltrane, this eponymous album (later renamed Pharoah's First) is the debut release of the iconic tenor saxophonist. 
(Yes, there are some spelling oddities here: the artist birth name Ferrell only later changed the spelling from the standard Pharaoh to the more personalized Pharoah.)
With one foot in mainstream jazz pianist Jane Getz had played with Charles Mingus and the other, tentatively at times, in the avant-garde, this is a fascinating glimpse of Sanders's style before he wielded the unremitting fierceness of his playing with Coltrane and the modal mysticism of his later solo albums on Impulse. Interestingly, in recent years he has deployed a more polished version of this sort of avant-flavored bop, bringing his career full circle and strongly suggesting that the hybrid heard here was not due to any failure of nerve on his debut but rather was the cornerstone of his conception.

CSD release Pharoah Sanders "Pharaoh Sanders Quintet" Limited Edition Cassette Tape preview

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CSD release Pharoah Sanders "Pharaoh Sanders Quintet" Limited Edition Cassette Tape preview

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