Soil & "Pimp" sessions
| Soil & "Pimp" sessions | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz (influences from Nu Jazz and Acid Jazz ) |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | English website |
| Current occupation | |
agitator |
Shacho |
Trumpet |
Taboo zombie |
Keyboard / piano |
Josei |
double bass |
Akita Goldman |
Drums |
Midorin |
| former members | |
saxophone |
Motoharu |
Soil & "Pimp" Sessions is a Japanese club jazz band that formed around Shacho and Tabu Zombi in Tokyo's club scene . They incorporated live jam sessions into their DJ sets, to which more musicians were invited. This is how the band grouped itself over time, and today consists of six members: Shacho (“Agitator”), Tabu Zombie (trumpet), Motoharu (saxophone), Josei (keyboard), Akita Goldman (double bass), and Midorin (drums) . Today the group refrains from using DJ performances during their appearances.
The energetic style of the group includes elements of Nu and Acid Jazz .
Band history
In 2003 the band performed without a record deal at the Fuji Rock Festival and achieved a high level of awareness in the Tokyo jazz scene - and due to the fact that they were the first group without a contract at this festival. The following year, the first mini album “Pimpin '” was released on JVC Victor . A year later, in 2005, her first long player “Pimp Master” followed, from which the singles “Waltz For Goddess” and the cover version of “A Wheel Within a Wheel” attracted attention in Europe. Gilles Peterson in Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 , as well as other show masters and performers helped the group to break through outside of the Japanese jazz scene.
In the summer of the same year a second mini album followed (“Summer Goddess”), as well as - at the invitation of Gilles Peterson - the first appearance at Cargo in London . The Berlin Nu Jazz collective Jazzanova then invited the Soil & “Pimp” sessions to Berlin, where they gave another performance. Further appearances in and outside of Japan followed.
Also in 2005, the group received the John Peel Play More Jazz Award during the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards . “Pimp of the Year” - the band's second album - was released in the spring of 2006, showing a development in style and musical quality. In the same year “Pimp Master” was released in Europe on Compost Records and in Great Britain on Gilles Peterson's label Brownswood Recording .
Furthermore, the group gave several performances in Belgium, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Croatia and Slovakia, as well as a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival .
In March 2007 the third album “PIMPOINT” followed on Victor Entertainment with 13 tracks, which reflect the heavy jazz character of the band. The song “Paraiso” has been used as the opening theme for the anime Michiko to Hatchin since October 2008 .
In March 2016 Motoharu (saxophone) left the band and the band is in a "charging phase", ie paused.
Discography
Studio albums
- Pimpin ' (2004)
- Pimp Master (2005, Europe release 2006)
- Summer Goddess (2005); Mini album, released in Japan only
- Pimp Of The Year (2006)
- Pimpoint (2007)
- Planet Pimp (2008)
- 6 (2009)
- Stoned Pirates Radio (2010); Cover album
- Magnetic Soil (2011)
- Circles (2013)
- Brothers & Sisters (2014)
Singles
- Suffocation (1 December 2004) on the album Pimp Masters appeared
- Crush! (8 February 2006) on the album Pimp Of The Year published
- Karisome Otome (November 11, 2006), only available via download, " Shiina Ringo X Soil &" Pimp "Sessions "
- Mashiroke (7 February 2007) on the album Pimpoint published
- STORM (April 23, 2008), released on Planet Pimp album
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review on Arte about “Pimp Master” ( memento of the original from January 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
