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2008年03月13日
第４０回；My First Album and The GasHouse Gorilla's second album
My first album "From Where I Am" is now available.
If you live in Japan, It should be available in the middle of May from BSMF records, too.
For more detail, please visit [ http://www.bsmfrecords.com/contact.htm ]
and ask them or send an E-mail to me directly.
ファーストアルバム「From Where I Am」、 CDBabyから購入可能、
エアメイルにて日本国内へも発送できるようです。
日本国内では５月中旬にはBSMFレコードからもリリースされますので
詳しくは、下記HPに直接問い合わせるか、私にメールしてください。
http://cdbaby.com/cd/hiromasasuzuki
http://www.bsmfrecords.com/contact.htm
Also, The Gas House Gorillas, which is the band I've worked with for 3years,
has also just release its second album called "Five Gorillas Walk Into A Bar".
This album is also available from CDBaby.
それから、私が約３年間参加しているバンド
「ガスハウス・ゴリラ」のセカンドアルバムも
最近リリースされ、やはりCDBaｂｙで購入可能です。
http://cdbaby.com/cd/gashousegorillas
Review レヴュー
xxxHiromasa Suzuki - From Where I Am
This is simply badass. Hiromasa Suzuki is a rhythm-and-blues-groove-soul-guitarist
par excellence. He takes the instrument places it has rarely gone,
advancing the blues form and making the sky cry.
The original ballad “Negai” is pure emotion,
from heart to strings. Suzuki’s playing sails along on a wave of sincerity,
Dan Hickey’s drums rising and crashing.
“Mojo Workin’” comes from the opposite side of the tracks, jumpin’ and rumblin’,
while Suzuki makes energetic love to his guitar.
“Money’s Getting Cheaper” shuffles along with ease,
with Suzuki’s bandmate from the Gas House Gorillas, Rick Fink,
delivering a typically charming vocal.
The jam “Kiokuno Rojiura,” another original, is a head bobbin’ grinner,
not to mention an excellent showcase for Suzuki’s superior improvisational skills.
The train-train sound of “Doushitemo Aitakute” finds Suzuki
taking his songwriting in a more downhome direction.
Elvis Presley or Eddie Cochran would love this one.
The swingin’ rockabilly blues sound is incredible and irresistible.
And, of course, Suzuki’s lengthy solo is electrifying.
The foot-stompin’ classic “Crossroads” gets a traditional and untraditional treatment,
in an arrangement that illustrates the history and development of the blues.
This track also serves to illustrate the wide ranging brilliance of Hiro Suzuki,
as producer, as arranger, as guitarist, and as artist.
Hiro Suzuki is what the blues are all about.
(April 02, 2008, Reviewed by Michael Macomber from "Retro Music Review")
***Hiromasa Suzuki, Rooster February 23
It’s a very good thing that bluesman Bill Sims told Hiromasa Suzuki to sing a couple numbers
when Suzuki was backing him years ago. It got Suzuki over his nervousness at singing in English
in front of American audiences, and turned him into the all-around bluesman he’s become.
His blues singing, guitar playing, song writing and performing were all on display
at blues club Rooster in Ogikubo in February.
It was the last evening in what has become an annual tour
for Suzuki through the blues circuit of his native Japan playing with local pals and old band mates.
Hearing him sing tunes from John Hiatt, Derek and the Dominoes and the Allman Brothers,
you wouldn’t think English was his second language, but Suzuki has spent years in the States
playing with some of the best blues musicians touring around.
The real treat comes, though, when he goes back to Japanese, and belts out his original blues.
Blues language is a special one, with lots of rough, direct meanings and short, punchy phrases.
It hardly seems to match the long, flowing sentences of Japanese,
but that’s what makes Suzuki’s lyrics so intriguing.
These Japanese-language tunes, especially "Naze" and "Negai," sound natural and powerful,
as if Japanese just might become the second language of the blues.
He’s no less amazing on guitar, playing with a gutsy, seems-easy style that fits tightly
with the band of old friends. His solos never force themselves but have a wallop to them.
Yoshi Shimada on drums, taking an evening off from his own band,
has honed his rhythms backing Bo Diddley, and kept everyone right in the great grooves.
Guitarist Tsutomu Mitsue and bassist Kaoru Yamauchi were veteran-tight
without being too slick to party.
The evening showcased both slow blues and rollicking, full-blast numbers.
You can hear his experience on the road with blues masters
like Son Seals, Little Milton, Magic Slim and Elvin Bishop.
Playing with these masters, he knows just how to crank up the amps,
drop down on the right beats and bring the blues in loud and clear.
His voice really aches, knowing well what each and every word in the songs means,
always with the fluid, easy grace that only full-time blues players ever have.
That way of approaching each song as if it’s special,
and having the sense and skill to make them all special, comes from years on the road.
Whether playing a country-picking style, a wide-open slide, or a muscular blues-rock beat,
he pours deep, deep feeling into every tune.
Those who missed his couple weeks of shows should be ready
next time he comes to Japan, hopefully soon.
Until then, though, his latest CD, "From Where I Am,"
recorded last year in New York, captures his unique Japanese lyrics
and great standards with musician friends from the States.
When you hear his passionate blues in Japanese,
you know the blues, like the human heart that is its vital organ,
really has no boundaries.
(April 07, 2008, Reviewed by Michael Pronko from "Jazz in Japan")
Retro Music Review
http://retromusicreview.com/2008/04/01/hiromasa-suzuki-from-where-i-am-review/
Jazz In Japan
http://www.jazzinjapan.com/lr_suzukihiromasa.html
投稿者 hirosuzuki1 : 2008年03月13日 13:57