Umezu Kazutoki KIKI Band - Dowser (2005) {ZOTT}

Dowser is the 2005 album by the Umezu Kazutoki KIKI Band. This was released by the Japanese label ZOTT.

This is the most recent disc (2005) by Umezu Kazutoki's amazing Kiki Band. It features Umezu on alto & soprano sax & clarinet, Kido Natsuki on electric guitar, Hayakawa Takeharu on electric bass and Joe Trump (once of Carbon) on drums. The quartet is super-tight and rocks really hard. Whoa. Umezu, Kido and Hayakawa all take strong solos throughout no matter how hard this band rocks. Umezu has a knack for putting together bands that can match his unlimited wealth of influences, blending jazz, hard rock, funk, prog and ethnic strands into an immensely powerful new four headed monster. Just when you think you have them pegged they show you another side.

1. Squirelly Dragon
2. Monkey Mash
3. Dressler #36
4. Failure Was The Beginning
5. Viva Chuo-LIne Jazz
6. Dowser
7. The Fort Of Zanzibar (Ngome Kongwe)

Kido Natsuki-electric guitar
Umezu Kazutoki-bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Hayakawa Takeharu-electric bass
Joe Trump-drums, percussion