Mondo Grosso – Nando Demo Atarashiku Umareru (Reborn Again and Always Starting New)

It’s been quite a long time since we last heard from Mondo Grosso – the Japanese project from Shinichi Osawa whose work was part of the same great wave of 90s Tokyo soul we loved from artists like Mondo Grosso, Kyoto Jazz Massive, and Monday Michiru! Yet, despite the passage of time, and a number of solo projects, too – Osawa is immediately back in fine fine form – delivering the sort of album that instantly bridges the Pacific with a wonderfully well-crafted batch of upbeat club music! Some of the familiar talents from that older scene are on deck to help give a voice to the Mondo Grosso music – singers Bird, UA, and Tica – alongside a few other guests vocalists who deliver soulful lyrics, mostly in Japanese – on tracks that include “See You Again”, “Solitary”, “Late Night Blue”, “Time”, “Eraser”, and “Gold”. Features a bonus DVD, with 4 tracks that include “Time”, “See You Again”, and two more Japanese-language titles. (review by Dustygroove.com)

Label: Avex (Japan), 2017
Limited edition (CD+DVD (Region 2 NTSC))
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Regular edition (CD only)
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1. TIME (Vocal: bird)
2. Spring Awakes Eternally (Ver. 2) (Vocal: UA)
3. labyrinth (Vocal: Hikari Mitsushima)
4. Astronauta perdido (Vocal: Ino hidefumi)
5. Planet Tantra (Vocal: Aska Saitō (Nogizaka46))
6. SOLITARY (Vocal:Kei Ōwada)
7. ERASER (Vocal: Anne Futagami)
8. SEE YOU AGAIN (Vocal: Kick a Show)
9. late night blue (Vocal: YUKA (moumoon))
10. GOLD (Vocal: Kaori Shimoshige)
11. Hello, Do You Copy? (Vocal: Etsuko Yakushimaru)

DVD (Limited edition only)
1. Labyrinth
2. wakusei Tantra
3. SEE YOU AGAIN
4. TIME

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