THE SUPER 3โs The Sun of a New Beginning โWinter to Spring,โ released March 29, 2025, is less an album and more a meditation in motion. Inspired by the resilience of plum blossoms blooming through snow, the trioโdrummer Shigeo โsanpeiโ Hirayama, bassist Tatsuya Fujimura, and pianist Toshiyuki Kokubuโoffer a genre-defying experience where each note feels like the earth itself stretching toward the sun.
โDistant Memory of an Island in the South Seasโ opens the album like a tide returning to shore, the piano rippling softly while percussion sparkles like morning dew on water. Itโs a fleeting two-minute moment that feels like a dream you only half-remember, but canโt forget. The title track, โThe Sun of a New Beginning,โ plays like the world warming up again. Each key is struck with intention, the sound cascading delicately around soft ambient swells. Itโs cinematic without trying to be, letting silence speak just as much as the notes themselves.
Then comes the kinetic jolt of โHey, Letโs Into the Crucible Of Grooving High,โ a wild, high-energy fusion of electronic pulse, splashing cymbals, and explosive drums. The track unravels like a fever dream in a subway tunnel, frenetic, visceral, and thrillingly unpredictable.
But itโs โSpring Flower (Plum Flower)โ that anchors the album. Composed in the early hours of a winter dawn, the piece glides with celestial grace. You feel the snow melting, the birds stirring, and Kokubuโs piano channeling something beyond control. The Sun of a New Beginning โWinter to Springโ is jazz as poetry, as prayer, as rebirth.
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Review by: Naomi Joan