“MEGTARO” released the new music Album “Lyric”

“MEGTARO” just dropped the new and hot Album “Lyric”. It will contain the songs 'Ima Ima (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]', 'Favorite Green (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]', 'Inner Peace (feat. KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]', 'Everlasting (feat. Akiko Suda) [Vocalize Ver.]', 'Golden Fields (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]', 'Leaping Up (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]' and 'Continuing (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]' total of 7songs. Enjoy the Instrumental sound from the far east Asia.

The piano-drum duo unit "Megtaro" from Japan, which has garnered much attention, with songs from their current albums "Arise", "Newselves", and "World Painter" picked up on playlists and played over 4.5 million times, will release their fourth album "Lyric" as "MEGTARO Vocalize" in March 2023. "MEGTARO Vocalize" consists of the original members, pianist Megumi Otani and drummer Kentaro Nakayama, and three splendid vocalists, Akiko Suda, KOTETSU, and Daisuke Ito. Otani, a pianist and arranger, has rearranged seven songs carefully selected from his three albums released through 2022. This is an ambitious work that takes advantage that it is originally an instrumental piece and uses jazz approaches that use the voice in an instrumental way. The ensemble of piano, drums and voices, as well as their respective soloing and scatting, is excellent. The seventh track, "Continuing," is the only song on the album with lyrics. The lyrics were written by Azumi Takahashi, a talented singer who is an old acquaintance of Megumi Otani on piano who sung the role of Grizabella in the movie "CATS" after winning the first prize at the Apollo Theater. She has vividly expanded the world of the song. As with the third piece, the recording, mixing, and mastering work was commissioned to Akihito Yoshikawa of Studio Dede. He is now the only engineer we could ask to work on Megtaro's music, and he has created a superb piece of work that is a must for audiophiles. Since we've done the recording in 2021 to the release in March 2023, two children were born in the band. The album makes you happy for listening to...? Maybe... lol!

You can find and check the “Lyric” at 'Spotify', 'Apple Music', 'iTunes Store', 'LINE MUSIC', 'Amazon Music Unlimited' etc. Click here to see. Lyric

• 1： Ima Ima (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 2： Favorite Green (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 3： Inner Peace (feat. KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 4： Everlasting (feat. Akiko Suda) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 5： Golden Fields (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 6： Leaping Up (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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• 7： Continuing (feat. Akiko Suda, KOTETSU & Daisuke Ito) [Vocalize Ver.]

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Relase date：2023-03-06

MiKeN Records

Genre： Instrumental / Jazz

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MEGTARO

MEGTARO is an instrumental band from Tokyo, Japan since 2015. The members are Megumi Otani(piano) and Kentaro Nakayama(drums). Basic format is piano and drums DUO style. Mostly MEGTARO performs member's original songs which are colorful, emotional, and peaceful with using jazz vocabulary. MEGTARO has a wide variety of projects such as piano and drums DUO, piano trio, trio with sax, vocal and tap dance, quartet and quintet. Moreover, the DUO has three albums "Arise"(2018), "Newselves"(2020) and "World Painter"(2022). Each song describes nature, special visual scene, member's experience and thought. 
 Megumi Otani is a professional pianist, composer and arranger. She started to play piano and Electone in YAMAHA when she was 3 years old. She became a winner of "Japan Junior Electone Competition 2004" when she was 15 years old. Since then, she started her career as a professional musician. Megumi's major style is jazz after graduating from Tokyo College of Music in 2012. Also her style makes her a versatile sideman such as Pop, R&B and Gospel keyboardist, a recording musician, a composer and an arranger of TV program and advertisement songs, and many others. 
 Kentaro Nakayama is a professional jazz drummer. In 2006, Kentaro accepted his scholarship and started to study jazz and contemporary music at Berklee College of Music. In 2010, Kentaro moved to NYC to start his career as a professional drummer after graduating from Berklee College of Music. During this time, Clarence Penn became his mentor. In 2014, he moved back to Japan and started his career as a leader of "MEGTARO". Currently his style is based on jazz but is flexible so that it becomes him a versatile sideman. On the other hand, he began to start his career as an educator for all kinds of drumming, especially jazz drumming, with 9 years of experience in U.S.A.

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