
Isao Suzuki's New Family ensemble resurfaces on Jazz Room with a fresh edition of Mongolian Chant, a five track fusion LP long prized by collectors for its scarcity and near-unknown bass dialect 70s - an obscure dialect-formation into stranger corners possibly playable by the human hand. First released in Japan, the album pulls Suzuki's close-mic'd bass work into an offbeat group setting, where piccolo bass lines twist around Shigeharu Mukai's trombone and Toshiyuki Honda's soprano sax and flute. The session boasts a lefffield tint, and the new sleevenotes finally bring the original text into English.