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Otomo Yoshihide is a musican with a direct approach. While his music has been truly wide-ranging ever since the early days of his career, there has been a common thread: he always approaches music in a straightforward way, based on a clear plan, without any ambiguity or concealment. I think it is because of this straightforwardness that one always feels a pop-like brightness in Otomo Yoshihide’s music, even when he produces explosive noise or plays quiet music comprised of an extremely small numbers of sounds.
Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band is a project that could well be called the culmination of Otomo’s work as of now. In the most direct sense, this group is actually renamed „Otomo Yoshihide and Amachan Special Big Band”, made up of the musicians who played the soundtrack of the NHK drama series Amachan, aired from April to September 2013.