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Kazumi Watanabe & The Gentle Thoughts - Mermaid Boulevard (1978) (2011 Japan Edition)

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Kazumi Watanabe & The Gentle Thoughts - Mermaid Boulevard (1978) (2011 Japan Edition)

Kazumi Watanabe & The Gentle Thoughts - Mermaid Boulevard (1978) (2011 Japan Edition)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 222.71 Mb | 35:36 | Covers
Fusion, Jazz-Funk | Label: Alfa Music, Inc. - DYCP-70131

Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist. He was born on October 14, 1953 in Tokyo, Japan. Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album in 1971. In 1979, he formed a jazz rock band with some of Japan's leading studio musicians, and recorded the album Kylyn. During that year, he toured with the pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra.

In the 1980s, he toured as guest soloist with Steps, the Brecker Brothers, and Word of Mouth, led by Jaco Pastorius. Watanabe created the jazz-rock/jazz-fusion band Mobo in 1983 with Mitsuru Sawamura (saxophone), Ichiko Hashimoto (piano), Gregg Lee (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), and Kiyohiko Senba.

During the eighties Watanabe released the jazz-rock albums To Chi Ka (1980), Mobo Club (1983) Mobo Splash (1985), and Spice of Life (1987). A DVD was issued from the tour which featured drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Jeff Berlin, who also played on the record.

In the 1990s Kazumi assembled an all-Japanese line-up called Resonance Vox (Vagabonde Suzuki on bass, Rikiya Higashihara on drums, Tomohiro Yahiro on percussion). This band has released several adventurous fusion albums.



Track List:
01. Mermaid Boulevard (Watanabe) - 7:12
02. Neptune (Watanabe) - 4:07
03. Waltz for Sweet (Watanabe) - 3:57
04. "Q" (L.Johnson-G.Johnson) - 3:59
05. Sugar Loaf Express (Ritenour) - 6:38
06. Poppy's Walk (Watanabe) - 4:52
07. Gentle Afternoon (Watanabe) - 4:51

Kazumi Watanabe - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer
Harvey Mason - drums
Anthony Jackson - electric bass
Lee Ritenour - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone, flute
Jun Fukamachi - synthesizer
Patrice Rushen - electric piano, clavinet
Steve Forman - percussion
Minako Yoshida - background vocals

Recorded at Studio "A", Shubaura, Tokyo on October 17-29, 1977.

Kazumi Watanabe & The Gentle Thoughts - Mermaid Boulevard (1978) (2011 Japan Edition)

X Lossless Decoder version 20181019 (151.1)

XLD extraction logfile from 2019-08-09 17:51:02 +0900

Kazumi & The Gentle Thoughts / Mermaid Boulevard

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Media type : Pressed CD

Ripper mode : XLD Secure Ripper
Disable audio cache : OK for the drive with a cache less than 1375KiB
Make use of C2 pointers : NO
Read offset correction : 102
Max retry count : 20
Gap status : Analyzed, Appended (except HTOA)

TOC of the extracted CD
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6 | 25:53:24 | 04:51:69 | 116499 | 138392
7 | 30:45:18 | 04:51:31 | 138393 | 160248

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Track 02 : OK (v2, confidence 1/1)
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Track 04 : OK (v2, confidence 1/1)
Track 05 : OK (v2, confidence 1/1)
Track 06 : OK (v2, confidence 1/1)
Track 07 : OK (v2, confidence 1/1)
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