Artist

ISAMU

Sax,track maker........

He went to New York City to study English language, black culture and history. During his seven year stay, he played the sax with Maceo Parker, Bernard Purdie. Melvin Sparks, Chirs Rob, Oznoy and more, and he also had the chance to participate in Prince's celebration party in Minneapolis.

Then after coming back to Japan, he became a member of "urb" and released 3 full albums from Sony Jazz, which were ranked number 1 in Jazz category. "urb" was invited to the Bangkok Jazz Festival, Blue Note Tour, and was noteded internationally as a rare jam-styled jazz band.

After "urb", he participated in live performance and recording with artists such as JUJU、Sowelu, WISE (TERIYAKI BOYZ) , bird, TUBE, Kyoto Jazz Massive, AYUSE KOZUE, Aillie, DJ BEAT, STAX GROOVE, SUJI TAP, Sound Cream Steppers, jackazz, Hana, PAPA U-Gee, Keyco, Yosuke Onuma, noon, MOOMIN and more.
Finally in 2009, he released a CD full album titled "major drop out!!". In this album, his talent has flowered not only as a sax player but also hip-hop track maker.

• My Space
• Mixi

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ISAMU / Major Drop Out!! [SG-007]
(SoulGardenRecords / BouDEE,Inc DQC-271)

Jazz Hip-Hop Sax Player "ISAMU". After "urb", he supported many musicians in live performance and recordings as a top sax player

But in this album, the really notable thing is his talent as a track maker. All of the parts (rhythm section, keyboards, synthesizer, rap and, of course, sax) are performed by ISAMU himself.
In a sense, this album is his autobiographical novel based on his private experience during stay in N.Y. Listen carefully to his message!

Major Drop Out!! 01.introduction 02.freedomfeaturing Shinju , DJ two 03.how do you want to live your life? 04.imitation diamondfeaturing MichoSundler 05.luvefeaturing Mitz , Shinju 06.do the right thingfeaturing Solatomolu 07.interlude 08.like this hard? featuring DJ two 09.giant hop (giant steps) 10.evolution 11.bk streetfeaturing Daichi , Shinju 12.i’ve seen the light 13.let’s stay in love 14.somebody dying 15.outro DQC-271　Release 2009.7.22 SoulGardenRecords / BounDEE,Inc　2,625yen Member： ISAMU (TrackMaiking,MPC,SAX,Voice,Rap,Produce),Shinju (Bs),Daichi(Tp), DJ two(Scratch),MichoSundler(Rap),Mitz(Voice),solatomolu(Vo,cho)