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Genre:Jazz Style:Fusion
General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):
Beautiful Limited Edition Coloured Double Vinyl (Red and White), with gatefold cover and coloured vinyl in the colours of the Japanese flag.
LIMITED EDITION OF 100
Benjamin Herman is always looking for different approaches to make records, and with his new trio – bassist Thomas Pol, drummer/producer Jimmi Jo Hueting and himself – he has established a great synergy. To immerse themselves into Tokyo’s hyper-eclectic musical underbelly was too enticing a prospect to ignore. Minds were ceaselessly and consistently blown in districts like Shimokitazawa and Koenji where underground scenes in the city continue to flourish. Noise artists, freejazz anarchists, math punk outfits... each murky basement a Pandora’s Box of surprising genre-shattering sounds.
Enraptured and infected, Herman, Hueting and Pol found a box of their own to explore their own out-of-the-box mentality to music. Under the deft hands of analog recording sage Akihito Yoshikawa at his Studio Dede – the trio bundled their collective chops to forge fresh sounds through time-honored means. Joining them are some of the most esteemed names in Japanese music, namely venerated composer/jazz musician Otomo Yoshihide and tenor sax maverick Tomoaki Baba – who stole thunder on the soundtrack of Tachikawa Yuzuru’s Blue Giant (2023).
Trumpet plauer Shinpei Ruike returned to perform... more
credits
released March 27, 2026
Benjamin Herman - saxophones, flute
Jimmi Jo Hueting - drums, synthesizers, guitar
Thomas Pol - double bass
Otomo Yoshihide - electric guitar
Tomoaki Baba - tenor saxophone
Shinpei Ruike - trumpet
Ko Ishikawa - sho
Akihito Obama - shakuhachi
Recorded by Akihito Yoshikawa at Studio Dede, Tokyo on 8-11, 14, 15 April 2025
Produced by Jimmi Jo Hueting
Co-produced by Benjamin Herman
Mixed by Robin Hunt
Mastered by Akihito Yoshikawa at Studio Dede, Tokyo
Executive Producer: Benjamin Herman / Roach Records
Photography by Jonathan Herman
Album artwork by MURAKADO
Design by James Hunter
All compositions by Benjamin Herman and Jimmi Jo Hueting, except for:
- Gaa-Gaa, Jam Jam Radio, Spyware, Piyo-Piyo and We've Got More by Benjamin Herman, Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol and Otomo Yoshihide
- Hohokekyo by Benjamin Herman, Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol and Akihito Obama
Includes unlimited streaming of The Tokyo Sessions via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.
1. Sugii (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting & Thomas Pol) 3:362. Wasshoi (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Otomo Yoshihide) 3:323. Kazegafuku (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol, Akihito Obama & Ko Ishikawa) 5:064. NRFS (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Tomoaki Baba) 5:465. YAMAN (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting & Thomas Pol) 3:466. Aozora (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting & Thomas Pol) 4:337. Gaa-Gaa (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Otomo Yoshihide) 2:128. The Room (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Shinpei Ruike) 3:549. Tokyo Moon ((feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Tomoaki Baba) 3:4510. One For Itsuno (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Ko Ishikawa) 4:4111. Dede (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Shinpei Ruike) 4:0112. Pit Inn (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting & Thomas Pol) 3:5613. Jam Jam Radio (feat. Jimmi Jo Hueting, Thomas Pol & Otomo Yoshihide) 1:02
