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Cat: ALBF 1206. Rel: 25 Mar 19
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz/Nu Soul

Side 1 - Track 1. Stranger Searching Side 1 - Track 2. Redeye Reprisal Side 2 - Track 1. The Silk Road Prelude Side 2 - Track 2. A Love Supreme

Founded in 2017, Ronin Arkestra is a fusionist jazz/electronica collective from Tokyo founded by broken beat keys-man Mark de Clive-Lowe. Given that the band includes some of the finest players in Japan's contemporary jazz scene - most notably members of Kyoto Jazz Massive, WONK and Sleepwalker - you'd expect this first outing on Albert's Favourites to be rather good. It is, of course, with the band sashaying between dubbed-out soundscape jazz ("Stranger Searching"), sun-bright jazz-funk influenced positivity ("Redeye Reprisal"), loose-limbed, semi-improvised intensity ("The Silk Road Prelude") and, most notably, an awe-inspiring 21st century re-imagining of John Coltrane classic "A Love Supreme".