🇯🇵, 2024.
Brilliant new album from a kinda new band from there. This is another acoustic/electric violin-led instrumental japanese gem of a young band, a more symphonic sounding one than bands like KBB. A more peaceful one, less tedious, sorta. More progression. Moreness, like daring a 25min duration epic closing track.
Compositions are ethnically nice; taking the 7-string (stick?) bass closer to the foreground area will make it all perfect. Enjoy seeing them live e.g. on yt.

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PTF biography (from progarchives.com) :



Founded in Japan in 2009

A Japanese symphonic jazz rock combo PTF (officially ptf, written in lower-case letters) were founded as a quartet by Keisuke TAKASHIMA (violin), Takeya KITO (keyboards), Hiroyuki ITO (bass), and Yusuke SEKI (drums) in 2009. Gained musical experience through lots of gigs mainly around Tokyo quite inspired by 70s progressive rock, jazz rock, and heavy metal scene (according to what Keisuke says), finally ...

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