Ryo Kawasaki & Level 8 at Cotton Club Japan 2nd Show July 2, 2017 Full Length///+

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Ryo Kawasaki & Level 8 at Cotton Club Japan 2nd Show July 2, 2017 Full Length///+Ryo Kawasaki: Guitars, Composer Raun Juurikas: Keyboard
Kaarel Liiv: Bass Eno Kollom: Drums 1) Haiti-B
2) Morning Light
3) Sometime
4) Raisins
5) Agana
6) Seasons
7) Estate
8) Level 8
Encore) Fonky Tonk
All songs are written by Ryo Kawasaki - RYKA Music/BMI except "Haiti-B" by Joanne Brackeen & "Estate" by Bruno Martino
(c) 2017 Cotton Club Japan (c) 2017 Ryo Kawasaki All rights reserved///*+Ryo Kawasaki (崎燎, Kawasaki Ryō, 25. veljače 1947. - 13. travnja 2020.) bio je japanski jazz fuzijski gitarist, skladatelj i vođa sastava, poznatiji kao jedan od prvih glazbenika koji je razvio i popularizirao žanr fuzije i za pomoć u razvoju sintetizatora gitare u suradnji s Roland Corporation i Korgom. Njegov album Ryo Kawasaki i Golden Dragon Live bio je jedan od prvih sve-digitalnih snimaka i stvorio je Kawasaki Synthesizer za Commodore 64. Tijekom 1960-ih svirao je s raznim japanskim jazz grupama i također je formirao vlastite bendove. Početkom 1970-ih preselio se u New York City, gdje se nastanio i radio s Gilom Evansom, Elvinom Jonesom, Chico Hamiltonom, Tedom Cursonom, Joanne Brackeen među ostalima. Sredinom 1980-ih, Kawasaki je odlutao iz izvođenja glazbe u korist pisanja glazbenog softvera za računala. Također je producirao nekoliko techno dance singlova, formirao vlastitu rekordnu kuću pod nazivom Satellites Records, a kasnije se vratio jazz-fuziji 1991.Early life (1947–1968)
Ryo Kawasaki was born on February 25, 1947, in Kōenji, Tokyo, while Japan was still struggling and recovering from the early post World War II period. His father, Torao Kawasaki, was a Japanese diplomat who had worked for The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1919. Torao worked at several Japanese consulates and embassies, including San Francisco, Honolulu, Fengtian (then capital of Manchuria, now Shenyang in China), Shanghai, and Beijing while active as an English teacher and translator for official diplomatic conferences. Ryo's mother, Hiroko, was also multilingual, and spoke German, Russian, English, and Chinese aside from her native tongue Japanese. Hiroko grew up in Manchuria and then met Torao in Shanghai. Torao was already 58 years old when Ryo was born as an only child.Kawasaki's mother encouraged him to take piano and ballet lessons, and he took voice lessons and solfege at age four and violin lessons at five, and was reading music before elementary school. As a grade scholar, he began a lifelong fascination with astronomy and electronics (he built his own radios, TVs and audio systems including amplifiers and speakers as well as telescopes). When Ryo was 10, he bought a ukulele and, at 14, he got his first acoustic guitar. The album Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell and Stanley Turrentine inspired Ryo to study jazz.In high school, he began hanging out at coffee-houses that featured live music, formed a jazz ensemble and built an electronic organ that served as a primitive synthesizer. By the time he was 16, his band was playing professionally in cabarets and strip joints. Although he continued to play music regularly, he attended Nippon University, majored in quantum physics and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree. Although he has failed to prove his main interest and intuitive belief at that time, which is to prove that speed (acceleration) of gravity must be much greater than speed of light. He also did some teaching and contest judging at the Yamaha musical instrument manufacturer's jazz school. Additionally he worked as a sound engineer for Japanese Victor Records and BGM/TBS Music where he learned mixing and editing.///+//++/+///+///++I have no copyright or copyright for this album,'LP..DVD....+ unless the administration,you tube considers that I have violated the copyright will be deleted and removed from my channel, my respect and thank you!!!/