Daisuke Kunita- Fuzzy Logic
(Musea MP 3115)
From Aural Innovations #39 (May 2008)
Daisuke is a Berklee trained guitar player from Japan and this is his debut
CD. The CD features 8 instrumental tracks (all between 6 and 9 mins) played
in the rock trio format, except the last track which features saxophone and
a few with keyboards. The CD begins with a quite explosive track with a Stevie
Ray Vaughn like sound (who SRV stole from Hendrix!) and some killer guitar in
this hard rocker that devolves into a really jazzy piece with some great bass
playing, before coming back again. This track sort of throws you off though
as the rest of the CD is much more laid back jazzy stuff. On Again, Off Again
is a piece that Alan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson fans would hear the influences.
Great playing by this band…Tonal Gravity features some beautiful piano
by Kan Sano and gives the music a more laid back vibe and another instrument
to play off of. The piano is mostly featured in the first half of the track and
Daisuke in the second half. Sharp is back to a more heavier bass groove with melodic
guitar. He really takes off after the organ solo. Flat Line reminds me of some
of the Jonas Helborg-Jeff Sipe stuff. Actually a lot of this CD does. 22 on
22 starts off kind of spacey and again features some keyboards to accent the
other players while this mainly features a long melodic solo. The CD closes
with Acid Approach. This might remind of some of the recent Soft Machine material.
This music is really well played but perhaps a little too traditional and not
challenging enough for me. Great players…
Check out the record label web site at: http://www.musearecords.com
Check out the band web site at: http://www.daisukekunita.com
Reviewed by Scott Heller