Six To Six, by Hiroshi & Claudia

Six To Six

by Hiroshi & Claudia

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Benjamin Mursa It's like Zappa meets Miles Davis - good stuff Favorite track: The City Evening Concert.

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The long awaited reissue of the mythical 1979 Australian private press. Recorded in Sydney by a group of mysterious Japanese jazz musicians and an unknown Mauritian session vocalist, Six To Six is an amalgam of balearic disco, haunting soul & hectic funk reminiscent of electric Miles Davis

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1.	The City Evening Concert 09:18	buy track
2.	Lifted Up To 210 Meters 08:41	buy track
3.	Beats In The Depth 09:04	buy track
4.	This Early BROADMINDED Emptiness 08:56	buy track

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For decades the mysterious Hiroshi & Claudia LP has been an elusive jewel amongst the curious world of Australian private press LPs. With nothing more than cryptic broken-English album sleeve notes to reference, the mythical Six To Six LP is a bewildering and intriguing jazz oddity. With prices of the rare original record hitting three figures, collectors began demanding to know who was ‘Hiroshi’, who was ‘Claudia’ and why did a group of unknown Japanese musicians record an album in Australia in the late 1970s only to issue it in micro-quantities, then seemingly disappear back into obscurity. For years no trace of whom they were nor any clue as to the origins of their peculiar yet entrancing music had surfaced. Until now….

Welcome to the brainchild of Gilles Germain and Carmen Fabro, a French/Italian husband and wife team of restaurateurs and film producers operating in Sydney during the 1970s. Establishing the custom record label ‘Atom’, the duo released a handful of highly obscure vanity jazz LPs and promotional horse racing 45s. (Yes it’s all very strange…) The highlight undoubtedly being the album Six To Six, a session recorded in Sydney in 1979 by a group of touring Japanese jazz musicians led by guitarist Hiroshi Yasukawa, and a forgotten and still undocumented Mauritian cabaret singer performing under the alias ‘Claudia’. Sitting somewhere between spacey Balearic disco, haunting soul and hectic funk reminiscent of electric Miles Davis, the Six To Six LP is a curious beast to say the least.

The brand new reissue is now available courtesy of Northside Records & Roundtable.

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released April 22, 2017

Hiroshi (electric & acoustic guitar)
Nobou (synthesizer & keyboards)
Shigeru (bass)
Atsuo (drums)
Toki (alto sax)
Kenji (trumpet & frugel horn)
Taro (mixer)

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