Folks Cinematic Jazz Ensemble

Folks Cinematic Jazz Ensemble

"Folks Cinematic Jazz Ensemble" is a Jazz Sextet which is pursuing jazz music with Cinematic visual images. It releases 1st album written as a soundtrack for a fictional Road Movie on September 2019. Musically, Folk's marry the improvisation of Jazz with various style of music, for example, Reggae, Rock , Folks music, and Chill out etc...Shouhei Matsushita a.k.a M-Swift (Irma Records / Italy, Freestyle Records / U.K.) started this new project. The finest jazz musicians in Tokyo is joining on this band. And also London-based Japanese photographer Nemo Roberts joins on this project, Each songs is related to Nemo's photograph. Not only music, not only photography, both arts are collaborating in more closely-connected way expressing the story of fictional movie. "Folks" is a group which is seeking a new art form. Folks Cinematic Jazz Ensemble is Guitar: Shouhei Matsushita(M-Swift) Piano: Hideaki Hori Drums: Masatsugu Hattori Bass: Kunpei Nakabayashi Trumpet: Yusuke Sase Bariton and Tenor Sax: Ryo Ogasawara Photographer: Nemo Roberts