ELECTRIC RIDER Tomoaki Baba

• 1PRIME03:47
• 2Season of Harvest04:21
• 3WHAT IS ??03:03
• 4Fade into you06:44
• 5Reprise01:06
• 68801:22
• 7Circus II04:42
• 8BaBaBattleRoyale04:52
• 9Still Remember04:41
• Total Runtime34:38

Info for ELECTRIC RIDER

Tomoaki Baba to release a new album! Tomoaki a saxophonist who is currently attracting attention in the Japanese jazz scene, who played the saxophone of the main character in the animated film "BLUE GIANT". Major debut album with BIGYUKI as co-producer. After graduating from Berklee College of Music, he worked in New York and was also a member of the band "J-Squad" with Takuya Kuroda and others. After returning to Japan, he is a saxophonist who will play the main character, Dai Miyamoto, in the animated film "BLUE GIANT" to be released in 2023, attracting a lot of attention. His major debut album (3rd overall) is a work by a new electric project with BIGYUKI, a keyboardist who is active across genres and on the world stage, as co-producer. All of the songs on the album are original songs written by Baba specifically for this project, and the chemical reaction with BIGYUKI creates a powerful and edgy sound that predicts the future of jazz. Recorded based on a trio arrangement of saxophone, keyboard, and drums. Part of the trio alongside Baba and BIGYUKI is Korean drummer JK Kim (RM of BTS, Aaron Parks Little Big), who, like BIGYUKI, is based in New York. Depending on the song, ermhoi, Weedy Brimer’s Sase Yusuke, and Koganemaru Satoshi also participate. The track "WHAT IS ??" was mixed by the US electric hip-hop/jazz unit Big Gigantic.

Tomoaki Baba, tenor saxophone, programming
BIGYUKI, keyboards, synthesizers, synth-bass
JK Kim, drums, percussion
Weedie Braimah, percussion (tracks 2, 7)
Yusuke Sase, trumpet (tracks 3, 7, 9)
Kei Koganemaru, guitar (track 8)
ermhoi, vocals (track 9)

Tomoaki Baba
was born in 1992 in Sapporo, Japan and began playing saxophone when he was 7 years old. He attended the renowned Berklee 5-week summer program in 2007, 2008, 2009 as a full-scholarship student. He was selected for Berklee Jazz workshop directed by Terri Lyne Carrington in 2010. In 2011, Tomoaki was the recipient of a full-scholarship to the Berklee College of Music.

After graduating, Tomoaki moved to New York City and has become an active sideman and leader, performing with artists like Terence Blanchard, Dayna Stephens, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jamie Callum, Sean Jones, Darren Barrett and Louis Cole.

Since Tomoaki moved to Japan in 2020, he has been passionated putting leader projects, and has released 2 albums “Story Teller” and “Gathering”. Also Tomoaki has been organizing events named “BaBaBar” which is collaborations with musicians in all over the world like Mark Guiliana, Makaya McCraven, Marquis Hill, Ben Wendel.

Also Tomoaki is we known by performing for main character Dai Miyamoto (ts) from Japanese animation movie “Blue Giant”.

This album contains no booklet.