GROOVE STUDY

Great really. Yumi says she has recorded, mixed, and produced this album entitled "Groove Study" (this fascinating title reminds me of something like a grand experiment for groove because of my real specialism lol) for 8 years. For every fan, this artistic stuff was worth waiting for 8 years, let me say. "Groove Study" involves complicated, bouncy, and well-balanced rhythmic stances plus mysterious, chaotic melody lines. We can hear her sincere, serious attitude for sound and style in them. In addition, through the tracks, a natural groove is streaming around us and especially the 'kindness' of her sound construction is oozing all around ... they are the highlights by Yumi HARA.

Brilliant expedition gets started from the first masterpiece "Orlyonok". Exactly complex beats, comfortable vibes, and heavenly surrealistic melodies are synchronized rigidly and perfectly. West African Beat Methods (according to Yumi's words) cannot be imagined via this song but dynamic hyper-dimensional impression is veiling every single audience. You can easily find Yumi kept concentrating to create this magnificent art and exploded her happiness just after completing it. The following "Once Around The World" is another amazing discovery. Such a tough instrumental technique (on both melodic and rhythmic operations) can be enjoyed in a super natural manner. What's happening? The more you listen to her catchy, pastoral timbre, the more confused you get by the timbre. Amazing.

After heavy metallic piano fragments "Fragment Eines Klavierstucks" (this is one of my faves due to intriguing sound layout and arrangement), you are getting obsessed and glued by "Hibernal Suite" featuring Tatsuya YOSHIDA's drumming and Toshiaki SUDOH's bass playing (both of that should be very important for supporting such a fantastic suite). Yumi's pipe organ experiments cannot be beaten by the rhythm section. Religious, chilling soundscape sounds more powerful and vigorous actually. Guess Yumi played this suite along with her imagination that strong animals live calmly but strongly even under hibernation. For the warmth of the sun and snowmelt water. This suite is filled with hope, anticipation and encouragement. "Groove Study Giga Mix" can be thought as one of her culminations on this studio-oriented stage. Improvised destructive piano attachments and speedily stabilized rhythmic temptation will knock you down completely. But it's also true that her sincerity in such a dissonance will salvage you under such a tough situation all over the world.

30 minutes under this creation is pretty dramatic. And Prince (a cat) lying beside Yumi is quite pretty and cool. Would you let me highly recommend this opus? Yes!