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New Horizon (Tak Matsumoto album)

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New Horizon
Studio album by
ReleasedJapanApril 30, 2014
GenreJazz fusion
Length46:59
LabelVermillion Records (Japan)
ProducerTak Matsumoto and Paul Brown
Tak Matsumoto chronology
Strings of my Soul
(2012)
New Horizon
(2014)
enigma
(2016)

New Horizon is the fifteenth solo studio album by Japanese guitarist Tak Matsumoto, of B'z fame. It is an instrumental album (except for "Feel Like a Woman Tonite", with guest vocals by American singer Wendy Moten[1]) and it was released by Vermillion Records on April 30, 2014 in Japan. The album debuted at number 3 on both the Japanese Oricon weekly album chart[2] and the Billboard Japan album chart.[3]

Some tracks of the album are not new; the title track was featured in a series of commercials by Japanese transportation company Sagawa Express, "Black Jack" is a rerecorded version of the Black Jack Special theme song, and "Rain" had been already performed live during their 25th anniversary tour.[1] The album also features three covers: "Take 5", which had already been covered in Matsumoto's debut solo album Thousand Wave, and two other tracks by Japanese musicians, the only tracks with Japanese-language titles.[1]

Track listing

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All music is composed by Tak Matsumoto, except where noted

Japanese edition
No.TitleMusicLength
1."New Horizon" 4:39
2."Take 5" (The Dave Brubeck Quartet cover)Paul Desmond3:34
3."Feel Like a Woman Tonite" (featuring Wendy Moten) 3:53
4."Rodeo Blues" 3:15
5."Island of Peace" 5:23
6."That's Cool" 3:19
7."Shattered Glass" 4:57
8."月の明かり (Tsuki No Akari)" (Light of the Moon)Masahiro Kuwana5:26
9."Reason to be..." 4:01
10."Black Jack" 4:33
11."学生街の喫茶店 (Gakuseigai No Kissaten)" (Once Upon a Love)Kohichi Sugiyama3:59
12."Rain" 5:39
Total length:46:59

The American and European editions come with a slightly different track list (with "Take 5" as the opening track and the title track coming next) and the two Japanese-language titled tracks translated to English

Personnel

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Session members

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Technical staff

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  • Hideyuki Terachi – arrangement
  • Hiroyuki Kobayashi – recording; mixing on tracks 5, 8, 9, 11, 12; engineering
  • Paul Brown – recording and engineering on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10; mixing on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10; arrangement on "Feel Like a Woman Tonite"

References

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  1. ^ a b c Tobias (7 March 2014). "Tak Matsumoto New Album 「New Horizon」 2014/04/30 Out!!". Off the Lock. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  2. ^ "CDアルバムランキング – 2014年05月12日付 (2014年04月28日~2014年05月04日)". Oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Billboard Japan Top Albums". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
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