Hiroshima - Urban World Music (1996) 320 kbps+CD Rip

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Title: Urban World Music
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Qwest,Warner Bros[9 46234-2]
Genre: Jazz, Crossover Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 61:46
Total Size: 403 MB(+3%) | 146 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Unspoken Love
2. Passion Pain
3. Let Me Be Your Baby
4. Heiwa (Peace)
5. Through My Eyes
6. Ripples in Our Waterfall
7. Timekeeper
8. Love How You Love Me
9. Urban World
10. None of Us Are Free
11. Koto Blues
12. Hipnotic
13. Walking With Angels
Hiroshima - Urban World Music (1996) 320 kbps+CD Rip

personnel :

Dan Kuramoto :vocals, saxophones, flute, shakuhachi, yokobue, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, programming
Kimaya Seward : vocals, keyboards, percussion
Dean Cortez : vocals, bass
June Kuramoto : koto, shamisen, percussion, background vocals
Kimo Cornwell : piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, synthesizer, programming, background vocals
Danny Yamamoto : keyboards, drums, percussion
Johnny Mori : percussion

Additional personnel :

Hamish Stewart : vocals
Robin Millar : guitar, keyboards, programming, background vocals
Monty Seward : keyboards, sythnesizer, programming, background vocals
Richie Garcia : percussion
Fiddmont Lindsey, NaDari Harrell, Catalina Dacara : background vocals

Urban World Music captures a revitalized and re-energized Hiroshima, full of new ideas and new ambitions. Although the title suggests that the album is composed of worldbeat explorations, that isn't quite the case. Like any Hiroshima album, Urban World Music is filled with fusions, but the music on this particular collection is given a slight, but noticeable, dance-oriented sheen, thanks to producer Robin Millar (who previously worked with Sade and Everything But the Girl). With new lead vocalist Kimaya Sweard in tow, Hiroshima creates a lightly funky set of jazzy soul numbers, complete with worldbeat flourishes. As always, the gruop has problems writing consistently compelling material, but when they are on, they provide some intriguing sounds and directions. In short, Urban World Music suggests more than it delivers, but those suggestions are quite enticing on their own.~Leo Stanley