Solar Wind [LP]

Om - Solar Wind [LP]

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. A1. Bandom (4:26) A2. Samarkand (5:18) A3. Dancing Top (4:21) A4. Windmill (4:43) B1. Aguni (火神) (6:43) B2. Pan's Fountain (5:07) B3. Solar Wind (6:08)