Serene state of mind

Since Jun Kajiwara started his career as a musician, he has performed with various musicians and bands.
And he used to form a duo with Yoshiyuki Asano alias Butcher -" J&B " -with a band, and " J to B ", only two acoustic guitars.
But after he lost his partner Asano six years ago, he was working on solo career.
Now Jun is working on a new duo: " J&K " -Jun and Kumi.
The partner is Kumi Adachi , who performed with Orianthi , and took part in a jazz festival in Cairo, Egypt.
Although they perform some songs performed by J&B at their concerts -but it's a completely new duo.

At their concert I went on March 11 , they introduced the opening number in this album " Joker & King " as their theme song of "J&K" .
Two "Interlude" songs work filler between electric section and acoustic section.
Both are homage to Steely Dan .
Between those two "Interlude" songs, four songs are performed on two acoustic guitars.
So we can enjoy both electric guitar sound and acoustic guitar sound in one album.
According to Kumi at the concert, she used to perform only the electric guitar, and she took up the acoustic guitar for the first time at J&K.
Speaking of first time, they worked on singing as a recording work in this album: " Pinball Wizard ".
I remembered empathizing Jun's talk at a concert; a blues singer Takashi Nagai alias Hotoke recommended Jun to sing on stage
When he actually tried singing, he found that singing was tough:
When he is performing as a guitarist, he is listening to the whole sound, but when he is singing, his ears catch only his voice.
The closing number " Quiet Times " was written when a friend of Jun  passed away a few years ago.
Back then, he didn't intend to perform this song at live concerts, but since 3.11 earthquake, he performs this song at concerts as a requiem .
Also on March 11, they performed this song when I went to their concert.
This month, J&K is on tour in Tohoku, and visiting stricken prefectures, too.
-But it would be only the two of them who know whether this song is dedicated to Asano, too -I suppose.

January 9, 2013, King Records, KICJ-652

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