{"id":6213,"date":"2022-07-28T20:54:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T20:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6213"},"modified":"2022-12-18T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:48:06","slug":"music-seychelles-masayoshi-takanaka-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6213","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Seychelles, Masayoshi Takanaka, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KxW63ZqiBbs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five-3.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five-3-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More musical fabulousness from Japan\u2019s Masayoshi Takanaka. Track one, Oh Tengo Suerte, is also the first track on <em>All Of Me.<\/em> A number I love so much I want to get both of those albums!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A little later\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well\u2026 Holy guacamole! Just listened to the entire album, in one pass. And my goodness, it\u2019s amazing! First off the range is very wide. It\u2019s all tinged with a \u201870s fusion vibe. And being predominantly instrumental, there\u2019s a definite jazz aspect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s also all over the map in many ways. Perhaps the single best example of this is the pretty bonkers final piece, which starts and finishes with layered vocal harmonies and barely audible acoustic guitar, before barreling off into a Japanese prog-fusion wonderland both very like some kind of CTI thing, but also unlike anything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The musicianship is absolutely stunning. Unsurprisingly Takanaka is the star, on prominent display here. But, everything, the percussion, the drumming, the keys (other stuff: vocals, strings, horn solos, whatever), and very notably the bass, are all stunning.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More musical fabulousness from Japan\u2019s Masayoshi Takanaka. Track one, Oh Tengo Suerte, is also the first track on All Of Me. A number I love so much I want to get both of those albums! A little later\u2026 Well\u2026 Holy guacamole! Just listened to the entire album, in one pass. And my goodness, it\u2019s amazing! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Seychelles, Masayoshi Takanaka, 1976&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1Cd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}