Sleep Walker - 4 albums + ep

2003 Sleep Walker ... 320 vbr ... 125 MB
2006 The Voyage ... 320 kbps ... 163 MB
2007 Works ... 192 kbps ... 91 MB
2008 Into The Sun ... 320 vbr ... 96 MB
2009 Remixed cdep ... 320 kbps ... 55 MB

Style: club jazz, fusion
Country: Japan
Connected with Indigo Jam Unit — discography @ worldmusic

Sleep Walker are a Japanese jazz band featuring
Masato Nakamura (sax)
Hajime Yoshizawa (piano)
Kiyoshi Ikeda (bass)
Nobuaki Fujii (drums)

2003 Sleep Walker

Tracklist:
01 Ai-No-Kawa
02 Resurrection
03 Elina
04 Time Voyager
05 Five
06 Nomadic Tribe
07 Life Is Theatre
08 Ai-No-Umi

A monumental bit of club jazz — one of the best new records we've heard in years, with a sound that's right up there with the best of Impulse Records from the classic years! The album's a side project of Japanese producer/keyboardist Hajime Yoshizawa — and unlike his other records, which have a much stronger dance/soul approach, this set's almost purely straight jazz — done with majestically searching solos on both keyboards and sax, the latter of which is played by Masato Nakamura, who has a tone that almost recalls Pharoah Sanders! The whole thing's great — a brilliant piece of Love Supreme jazz, co-produced by Kyoto Jazz Massive, who give the record enough of a bounce to make it appeal to fans of recent work by them, Koop, or Jazzanova as well. An instant classic — and a mindblowingly deep record that we'll be playing for years! (Review courtesy of Dusty Groove)

Sleep Walker's debut album is actually every bit as good as Dusty Groove will have you believe. This is a classic piece of modern jazz; both deep AND danceable! All killer, no filler, as the mighty Bacoso often so eloquently puts it.

2006 The Voyage

Tracklist:
01 Ai-No-Tabi
02 Into The Sun
03 The Southern Cross
04 Afloat feat Yukimi Nagano
05 Lost In Blue
06 Kaze
07 Reminiscence
08 The Voyage

Brilliant brilliant work by Sleep Walker — a soaring, soulful album of spiritual jazz — one that we'd rank right up there with our favorites from the era of John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders on Impulse Records! The vibe here is incredible — jazz played live on tenor, soprano sax, piano, bass, and drums — spinning out in modal lines that groove tremendously, but not with any tricks or gimmicks that get in the way of genuine jazz expression. Sleep Walker are easily one of the deepest and most talented combos of the current club jazz scene — and their music never resorts to fake samples or heavy-handed rhythms to move the tunes along — just glows in the genius of its own bright light, spreading forth in waves of soul and sound that are tremendous from the first note of the album to the last!
A great set of contemporary jazz from the Japanese Quartet Sleepwalker featuring guest appearances from none other than Pharoah Sanders (The Voyage) Bembe Segue (Into The Sun) and Yukimi Nagano (Afloat).

2007 Works

Tracklist:
1. Quiet Dawn (6:36)
2. Wind (5:55) — Sleep Walker Feat. Yukimi Nagano
3. River Of Love (9:45) — Sleep Walker Feat Bembe Segue
4. Pathways "Jazztronik Theme" (Sleep Walker Remix) (8:01) — Jazztronic
5. Don't Believe A Word (Sleep Walker Remix) (5:01) — Victor Davies
6. Big Escape (5:51)
7. Eclipse (8:59)
8. Sim Ou Não (Sleep Walker Re-Work) (5:32) — Jazzinho
9. Waltz For Moe (New Take) (7:06)

2008 Into The Sun

Tracklist:
01. Brotherhood
02. Into The Sun (feat. Bembe Segue)
03. Resurrection (Tokyo Night mix)
04. River Of Love (feat. Bembe Segue)
05. Ai-no-tabi
06. Wind (feat. Yukimi Nagano)
07. Eclipse
08. The Voyage (feat. Pharoah Sanders)

2009 French compilation from the jazzy Japanese combo containing tracks from their Japanese releases plus two exclusive cuts: 'Brother Hood' and 'Resurrection' (Tokyo Night Mix). Sleep Walker were one of the first of their scene to move into ... Full Descriptionclassic Jazz territory — getting past the beats and programs of other contemporary combos, and moving into straight acoustic modes that are filled with spirit and soul. There's a very righteous vibe to their music — one that's informed by the best post-Coltrane modes of the Impulse Records generation, particularly Pharoah Sanders, who plays with the group on one track here, lending his horn to the group's own searing tenor sax, keyboards, bass, and drums.

2009 Remixed cdep

Tracklist:
1 Brotherhood (Marc Marc dirty jazz remix) 5:04
2 Brotherhood (Mitsu The Beats remix) 5:38
3 Brotherhood (Steven-J Deep Ryokou remix) 8:04
4 Resurrection (Diesler & The Jazzinvaders remix) 4:20

total > 23:06 min.