Masayoshi Takanaka is Japan's most celebrated fusion guitarist — a player of extraordinary technique and apparently inexhaustible melodic invention. Seychelles, his debut solo album from 1976, established his template immediately: Latin rhythms, jazz harmony, guitar pyrotechnics that never lose the groove. Oh! Tengo Suerte (I'm So Lucky in Spanish) opens the album with an Afro-Latin strut that feels genuinely global, a sound Takanaka would pursue across a career spanning five decades.
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