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Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats - Electronics [HMJY-172 JPN RSD2022 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC] Originally released as an almost impossible to find on Denon Records in 1970. Nobuo Hara is a name almost unknown outside Japan, yet he has released over one hundred albums and is widely acknowledged for bringing jazz to Japan in the post-war years from 1951. With his own 35-piece Sharps & Flats big band, powered by his own tenor saxophone, Hara brought American jazz to a new audience. Electronics is an album mixed full of funky soul-jazz covers and his own compositions, with kitsch psychedelic references (just check out that sleeve), and the electronic reference indicates his introduction of electric guitar, bass and piano into the performances. This version is the only time this album has been reissued on vinyl in very limited quantities, as part of the Columbia Japan RSD campaign during November 2022. Play loud! A1 Bouree (ブーレ) A2 Breit Kopt (ブライト・コップ) A3 Libe...