IGZIT-NINE

IGZIT-NINE were a four piece Jazz Fusion band out of Japan releasing this their only studio album back in 2003. Such a great year for me musically but this particular recording is average for me at best. These guys can play, no doubt about that but it's the compositions that seem a little one dimensional to me. The track lengths, the tempo of the music and sound is very similar throughout this record. And yes I'm exaggerating some here but it all sounds the same to me. We get drums, guitar, bass and keyboards and the latter has piano and synths leading the way. I do like the guitar best on "Aerostation" the closer but in my opinion it's the variety of keyboards that are more prominent than the guitar unfortunately. And come on calling the opener "Honet's Nest" is just too funny. Most seem to place this around 3.5 stars.