New Horizon (Tak Matsumoto album)
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| New Horizon | ||||
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| Released |  April 30, 2014 | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 46:59 | |||
| Label | Vermillion Records (Japan) | |||
| Producer | Tak Matsumoto and Paul Brown | |||
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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]
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]
All music is composed by Tak Matsumoto, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "New Horizon" | 4:39 | |
| 2. | "Take 5" (The Dave Brubeck Quartet cover) | Paul Desmond | 3:34 |
| 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 Kuwana | 5:26 |
| 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 Sugiyama | 3:59 |
| 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
