Legacy

Hiroshima has remained very much in the game with their unprecedented amalgam of traditional Japanese instruments, American jazz structure and Latin percussion. And they've done so by sticking to their original philosophy of blending genres to map out and promote unlikely artistic and cultural connections. After three decades, in a time when the globe grows smaller and more connected by the day, and sounds from all over that globe can be found in almost any piece of contemporary music, it appears that the world may finally be catching up with Hiroshima. The band offers a retrospective of their early years with the LEGACY. The album features eleven songs from the first ten years of Hiroshima's prolific history each re-recorded by the bands current six-member lineup with assistance from four guest artists. At the heart of LEGACY and of the Hiroshima experience is the convergence of Eastern and Western music, as forged by saxophonist Dan Kuramoto and koto player June Kuramoto, the founding members whose joint commitment to genre bending and cross- cultural innovation is as solid today as it was on that first recording.