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The Drum Solo World By Hiroshi Fukamizu
Firstly, I am grateful to Mr. Sawaguchi of UNAMAS label for giving me the opportunity to release an album of drum solo that is quite exceptional.
I received this offer in late May, 2011, and immediately understood that the project would not be an easy task since the drum solo recording is really seldom heard of anywhere in the world. In fact, for two months until the recording, the days in my mind was the continued struggle. On the other hand, I had some new discoveries such as the opportunity to precisely deal with each of my cymbals one by one as I reviewed a piece of music for cymbals to find their colorful expressions that I had never considered. Another new attempt was to use two bass drums in different sizes.
This recording represents the acoustic sound of drums with true fidelity, and it is my ultimate wish that listeners are inspired through this album that the drum set is not an instrument merely to slice the beat but to play music wonderfully.
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