By The Red Stream

Description

By The Red Stream by Hiromasa Suzuki featuring Jiro Inagaki & Big Soul Media is a Japanese album from 1973 that blends jazz-rock, modal jazz, funk, and free jazz in a dense and committed atmosphere. Designed as a concept album around war, anti-war, and peace, it develops a darker, tenser, and more cinematic tone than many other fusion jazz records of the time. Hiromasa Suzuki's writing is particularly striking, with long, structured, and highly narrative pieces driven by electric keyboards, powerful brass, and nervous rhythms. The album alternates between lyrical, psychedelic, and explosively intense passages, giving it a true dramatic depth while remaining very groovy. Today, it is a cult classic of 70s Japanese jazz, often regarded as one of the great peaks of engaged jazz fusion from Japan.