(Cassette) Yasushi Ide/Cosmic Suite 2-New Beginning-

(Cassette) Yasushi Ide/Cosmic Suite 2-New Beginning-

2022.6.22 Release

A collaboration with LA-based cassette tape label "STRICTLY CASSETTE"! Limited production of 100 units.
The inside is a neon green cassette shell, and the track list is the same as the LP.
Enjoy the sound quality that only a cassette can provide.

Tracklist
SIDE A
01. Mirror feat. Josué Thomas
02. Lava feat. UA
03. The Battle Part.1 feat.Emilie Chick
04. Sumimasen Suite Part.1(Album Version)feat. Emily Capell, Rebel Dread
05. We Need Power part.1 feat.Josh Milan

SIDE B
01. I'm Thinking,Im Spacing (Album Version)feat.Afrika Bambaataa
02. Outer Space feat.DJ KRUSH
03. Galactic Beats Part.1
04. Hear, There feat. Kan Takagi, RECK
05. New Beginning

In November 2020, Yasushi Ide released his first album in eight years, "Cosmic Suite." Led by Jeff Mills, the album features many artists from Japan and abroad, and is a 36-minute instrumental that crosses a variety of genres, including Jazz, House, Reggae, Funk, and Techno, and has received a great response both in Japan and overseas.

After the release of "Cosmic Suite," Ide immediately began working on the sequel, "Cosmic Suite 2," with his friend Watusi. The project was to take Cosmic Suite to a new dimension with the participation of UA, RECK (FRICTION), Josh Milan, who was nominated in two categories for the Grammy Awards this year, living legends Afrika Bambaataa and Don Letts, and respected artists from Japan and abroad. As the name Suite suggests, the songs are developed with a classical suite in mind.

The artwork was designed by Josué Thomas, an artist who is active across the worlds of fashion, music and art, and is also a friend of the late Virgil Abloh (he also participated in the first track, Poetry Reading), and the founder of the globally acclaimed fashion brand GALLERY DEPT.

Cosmic Suite 2 is a work that embodies the Universal Music Connection proposed by Ide and Josué Thomas, and is a new message album from Ide that is conscious of a new departure, a "New Beginning," while confronting the COVID-19 pandemic.

As usual...the critics are speechless----

Yasushi Ide
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