ONE LOVE by Saco Yasuma
"Saco Yasuma, the multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performance artist, has completed One Love, her second album as a singer-songwriter, after As It Is is Beautiful.
One Love has an upbeat flavor, with spiritual yearnings and rhythms. Combinations of vocal textures, layers of incantations. Joyous expressions, enhancing spoken gestures. In Saco’s ever-evolving musical quest of Beauty and Love, she has composed harmonious contributions to life’s sphere.
The webbings of vocalizations, languages, moods, and woven tiers create an agile density, not thick or cumbersome, one with light and airy movement. The lyrics’ messages are softened by the natural expression of her vision, the confluence of flowing currents, prayerful phrases, offerings of thankfulness to life’s wide expanse in all its forms.
One Love’s amazing ensemble of musicians and vocalists include the performance artist Sakurako Kataoka (yes, Wonder Woman herself!), whose poetic renderings of Saco’s English lyrics by her special Word-Songs are read and breathed. Kevin Nathaniel is a presenter/curator, educator, and percussionist. Barbara Sfraga is an abundantly endowed vocalist, with unique sensitivity elevates through her rapturous sound. The innovative drummer and percussionist Michael T.A. Thompson can make music from anything! And for One Love, Michael plays varieties of instruments. The One Note One Spirit choir, a gleeful ensemble, is a pool of explorers whose gliding surges, swelling crescendos, and improvisations add willowy effects to the fabric of One Love."
-from the liner notes "ONE LOVE -MANY WEAVINGS IN ONE CURRENT" by Amir Bey
The entire liner notes PDF file comes with the album purchase.
Tracklist
| 1. | One Love ワンラブ | 7:50 |
| 2. | Harmony On Earth 地球の調和 | 6:53 |
| 3. | A Melody From Our Ancestors 祖先からの調べ | 5:51 |
| 4. | Into The Light 光のなかへ | 6:48 |
| 5. | The River In Heaven あまのかわ | 8:14 |
| 6. | The Perfect Universe 完璧な宇宙 | 8:14 |
Credits
Saco Yasuma - Composition, Lyrics, Voice, Piano (3,4,5,6), Keyboard (1,2)
Sakurako Kataoka - Spoken-words (1,2,4,6) / Zammaikin (5)
Michael T.A. Thompson - Percussions, Chorus (1), Keyboard (2,3)
Barbara Sfraga - Voice & Lyrics (1,6)
Kevin Nathaniel - Maracas (1), Shekere (2), Mbira (3),
ONE NOTE ONE SPIRIT Choir (except 5)
Kashimi Asai
Tomomi Kawai
Takemi Kitamura
Mika Okano
Chieko Palenberg
Miyoko Satoh
Motoi Urano
Produced by Michael T.A. Thompson & Saco Yasuma
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Kamilo Kratc at Soundworks Recording Studio, Astoria, NY
Barbara Sfraga's voice tracks were recorded by Tommy Brothers at Shoreline Studio, Wilmington, NC (1 & 6)
Cover Graphic by Miyoko Satoh
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The New York-based composer, lyricist, vocalist and pianist, Saco Yasuma’s musical experiences are wide; Blues, Funk, Rock, Bossa Nova, Salsa, Jazz, and Free Improvisational music. She blends all together with her native land, Japan’s melodies and sensibility to express love and gratitude to nature and the Universe that we are a part of.