New Horizon (Tak Matsumoto album)

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]

New Horizon
Studio album by
Tak Matsumoto
ReleasedApril 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)

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

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

Session members
  • Wendy Moten – vocals on "Feel Like a Woman Tonite"
  • John Ferraro – drums
  • Lee Laing – drums, keyboards and wah guitar on "Feel Like a Woman Tonite"
  • Shane Gaalaas – drums on "Rain"
  • Lenny Castro – percussion on "Take 5"
  • Travis Carlton – bass on track 1, 6, 9, 10, 11
  • Bryant Siono – bass on "Feel Like a Woman Tonite"
  • Barry Sparks – bass on "Rain"
  • David Enos – wood bass on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
  • Akira Onozuka – electric piano on tracks 1, 4, 6; piano on tracks 5, 7, 8, 9; Wurlitzer on "Black Jack" and "Gakuseigai No Kissaten"; organ on "Rain"
  • Greg Vail – saxophone on tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 10; flute on tracks 2, 3, 7; tenor saxophone on "New Horizon" and "That's Cool"
  • Greg Adams – trumpet on tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 10
  • Lee Thornburg – trombone on tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 10
  • Hiroko Ishikawa of Lime Ladies Orchestra – strings on tracks 5, 7, 8

Technical staff
  • 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
  1. 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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