Jazztronik -- Move

 

Hope your Sunday, and by extension your weekend, has been a good one wherever you are. It definitely felt like summer here in Toronto with the mugginess flowing in. Things will be getting cooler and drier from tomorrow though.

Perhaps we can start the final Sunday of June 2023 on KKP with something laidback but modern. Up to this point, I've written a couple of articles on the music collective known as Jazztronik centering around Tokyo DJ/pianist Ryota Nozaki（野崎良太）with the songs being released several years back and featuring guest female vocalists including "Searching For Love" with Miki Imai（今井美樹）.

I'm taking things a bit more recent with a digital single released by Jazztronik in September 2021 called "Move", and this time it's an instrumental. According to his Wikipedia entry, along with jazz, Nozaki also specializes in a brand of electronic music known as Downtempo "...that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music." I did get reminded about ambient music when I first heard "Move", and sure enough, the Wiki article also has compared it to ambient but there is a further leaning toward rhythm within Downtempo. I gather that the song then does mesh jazz and Downtempo since it does feel very airy and leisurely. Indeed, I think instead of a club, perhaps "Move" might be more tempting for play in a café.