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kimiko kasai with herbie hancock / butterfly

In 1979, Herbie Hancock joined up with Japanese jazz singer Kimiko Kasai to record versions of classic Herbie tracks, including ‘I Thought It Was You’ and ‘Butterfly’. The title track itself is the highlight, up there with the most blissfully stoned summer time ballads in the Roy Ayers vein. The cover of Stevie Wonder’s ‘As’, with vocoder backing vocals is also strange and remarkable. The original pressing is expensive and a little harder to come by outside of Japan.