Solar Wind

Led by guitarist Seiji Hano, the jazz group om released only one album — Solar Wind, a landmark work that stands as one of the greatest achievements in japanese ethnic jazz. now, this masterpiece is finally being reissued.
 
Their sound, seemingly a response from Japan to ECM artists such as Oregon and Codona active during the same period, is refined yet imbued with a distinctly Japanese sense of wabi-sabi — melancholic, nostalgic, and deeply resonant.
 
From “windmill,” featured on Studio Mule’s compilation Midnight in Tokyo Vol.2, to every other track, Solar Wind is a flawless album with not a single weak moment — a true masterpiece of Japanese jazz.