A Letter from Slowboat (LP,180g,obi) WRJ008LTD

Ryo Fukui

A Letter from Slowboat (LP,180g,obi) half speed mastered, heavy sleeve

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Label: We Release Jazz

Cat-No: WRJ008LTD

Release-Date: 18.09.2020

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Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

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Barcode: 4251804120838

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Label: We Release Jazz

Cat-No: WRJ008LTD

Release-Date: 18.09.2020

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Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

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Last in: 07.04.2022

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Ryo Fukui - A1. Sonora (00:00) Ryo Fukui - A1. Sonora (00:00)	1	Ryo Fukui - A1. Sonora
Ryo Fukui - A2. Stella by Starlight (00:00) Ryo Fukui - A2. Stella by Starlight (00:00)	2	Ryo Fukui - A2. Stella by Starlight
Ryo Fukui - A3. Speak Low (00:00) Ryo Fukui - A3. Speak Low (00:00)	3	Ryo Fukui - A3. Speak Low
Ryo Fukui - A4. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (00:00) Ryo Fukui - A4. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (00:00)	4	Ryo Fukui - A4. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
Ryo Fukui - B1. Old Country (00:00) Ryo Fukui - B1. Old Country (00:00)	5	Ryo Fukui - B1. Old Country
Ryo Fukui - B2. Soultrane (00:00) Ryo Fukui - B2. Soultrane (00:00)	6	Ryo Fukui - B2. Soultrane
Ryo Fukui - B3. Chasin’ The Bird (00:00) Ryo Fukui - B3. Chasin’ The Bird (00:00)	7	Ryo Fukui - B3. Chasin’ The Bird
Ryo Fukui - B4. Be My Love (00:00) Ryo Fukui - B4. Be My Love (00:00)	8	Ryo Fukui - B4. Be My Love

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LP: 180g vinyl, half speed mastered, heavy sleeve, obi

Tracklisting LP
A1. Sonora
A2. Stella by Starlight
A3. Speak Low
A4. Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
B1. Old Country
B2. Soultrane
B3. Chasin’ The Bird
B4. Be My Love

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We Release Jazz is delighted to announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui’s final album, the very personal contemporary jazz offering, A Letter from Slowboat, sourced from the original masters and available on limited edition 180 gram vinyl mastered at half speed for full audiophile sound, as well as on digipack CD.
Known for his miraculous albums Scenery (1976) and Mellow Dream (1977), legendary Hokkaido pianist Ryo Fukui, with the help of his wife Yasuko, opened his very own jazz club in Sapporo in 1995, Slowboat. This is where Ryo Fukui spent the latter half of his career, playing again and again, welcoming peers for unforgettable sessions, and perfecting the craft he lived for: jazz.

A Letter from Slowboat is a poetic, soulful, and honest love letter to Hokkaido, to Fukui’s jazz club, and to endless hours of practicing artistry in a place called home. Backed by longtime collaborators Takumi Awaya on bass, and Ittetsu Takemura on drums, Ryo Fukui flows through classics and originals with natural class, fluidity and absolute precision, expressing a smooth balance between skills and heart. Slowboat, full of breathtaking solos and exquisite moments of clarity, is another crucial piece in the career of one of the most fascinating jazzmen to ever grace the piano. It was released in 2016, sadly the year Ryo Fukui passed away, leaving behind a legacy of works that is sure to captivate jazz lovers for generations to come, and Slowboat, where the magic still happens to this day.

This is reissued in conjunction with Ryo Fukui’s Ryo Fukui in New York (1999), also available via We Release Jazz.

Points of interests

- For fans of jazz, soul jazz, modal, hard bop, piano, Japanese jazz, boats, Sapporo, Scenery, jazz clubs and very personal letters.

- Official reissue of the final album by legendary Hokkaido pianist Ryo Fukui.

- 8th release from We Release Jazz, following Ryo Fukui’s Scenery and Mellow Dream, the soundtrack of Le Cercle Rouge by Eric Demarsan, Stuff Combe 5 + Percussion, Marc Moulin’s Pla-cebo Live 1971 and Boillat Thérace Quintet albums. We Release Jazz is the sister-label of Geneva-based WRWTFWW Records (Midori Takada’s Through The Looking Glass and Lunar Cruise with Masahiko Sato, MKWAJU ensemble’s KI-Motion, Jun Fukamachi’s Nicole, Bruno Spoerri’s Voice of Taurus and The Sound of the UFOs, Piero Umiliani’s Tra Scienza e Fantascienza and Il Mondo Dei Romani…)