Whoever thinks that jazz can only be enjoyed while seated nodding the head has never experienced the explosive hyperkinetic jazz of SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS. These 6 Japanese musicians have given an own interpretation to describe jazz. The group defines their sound even as death jazz!
SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS should be seen live. The members first met at a club event in the Tokyo club scene in 2001, which was dominated by DJs. The members started to include live jam sessions in DJ sets with MC Shacho and gradually more and more instruments were added. Little by little, the DJs disappeared into the background and SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS was born. With his unusual role of “the agitator” or “troublemaker”, Shacho plays a key role by involving the audience with the music. Every instrument has an essential role, and solo’s follow each other up at breakneck speed but as a whole, the agitator steers everything in the right direction.
They owe their international breakthrough to Gilles Peterson, the renowned British DJ, who introduced them in his Worldwide radio show on BBC Radio 1 in 2005. That same year, they were awarded with the “John Peel Play More Jazz Award”. Now they have made it in Europe and their records are distributed by Gilles Peterson’s label Brownswood Recordings. In 2006 they released the album Pimp Master and they just released their new album Soil & “Pimp” Sessions – 6.
