Electro Keyboard Orchestra - Electro Keyboard Orchestra (2003)

Japan's response to the jazz-funk modes of Miles' Bitches [Brew] and Herbie's Headhunters... and it is damn good. The eight-member Japanese super group features on keys such as Yuji Ohno, Masao Yagi, and Hiromasa Suzuki--who are all playing on the Korg (analog) Synthesizer--with the backing of a tight, funky rhythm section that includes Ken Yajima on guitar, Akira Okazawa on bass and Shuichi Murakami on drums. Spacey-intergalactic covers of Norman Connors' "Mother Of The Future" and Quincy Jones' "The Iron Side" with groovy killah originals including---The Fire Dance, Mayflower, The Heated Point, The Soaring Sea Gull, Farewell, Onoda and The African Dawn.