World Fusion with Traditional Japanese Musicianship

During the 2020 lockdown, when many musicians were confined to their homes, shamisen player Kyle Abbott launched this project to help bring together his friends. Over the years, more and more artists joined in, and what began as a modest seven-song album grew into a fifty-song collection across a five-album series.

Each artist recorded independently with minimal guidance. Kyle trusted the mastery and sensitivity of his collaborators, and their collective creativity forged an extraordinary cohesion between Japanese and Western folk traditions.