JAZZ STAR TAKAKO AFUSO LAUNCHES NEW ALBUM WITH EV SOUND
Renowned Japanese jazz vocalist and Electro-Voice RE510 microphone endorser Takako Afuso celebrated the release of her new album Mabui No Uta at Tokyo Kitazawa Town Hall on September 21st, joined by a superb band including a host of musicians from her two prior hit recordings.
Sound reinforcement for the sold-out event was an all-Bosch Communications Systems affair, with a plethora of Electro-Voice microphones, various state-of-the-art EV loudspeakers powered by new TG and CP amplifiers, with Midas mixing consoles and Klark Teknik digital signal processing and equalization.
Takako Afuso is esteemed by jazz critics and her peers alike as an artist with a sublime ‘once in a generation’ talent, an honor reflected in her audience’s rapt response to her two hour set, which ranged from soft ballads to up-tempo jazz numbers. The reproduction of Afuso’s voice through her RE510 condenser mic was outstanding; every nuance, every expression and every breath came across clearly, and the crowd was genuinely moved.
The spread of EV mics across the backline and instrumentation ensured Afuso’s band sounded equally superb at the input stage; that sonic warmth and expression was writ large in the house via inimitable Midas preamps (in the Siena at FOH) and super-compact, high performance XLE line array loudspeakers, augmented by SxA760 powered subs. New Phoenix series monitors delivered their industry-leading balance of performance and power onstage.
Equipment list:
EV microphones:
RE510 (main vocal) x1
N/D767a (pianist & MC) x2
RE27N/D (tenor & alto sax) x2
RE20 (Leslie) x1
RE200 (hi-hat) x2
Cardinal (snare top & piano) x6
Raven (bass amp) x1
N/D868 (kick drum)
N/D478 (snare, guitar amp & Leslie) x5
N/D468 (toms) x6
Mains: XLE181 x8, SbA760 x4
Monitors : PX1152M x4, PX1122M x6
Power amplifiers: TG-7 x2, CP4000S x4
FOH console: Midas Siena 320 x1
Sub console: Venice 240 x1
Klark Teknik Square One Dynamics x1
Klark Teknik DN9848E processor x1
EQ: Klark Teknik DN9340E x1, DN9344E x2
Band:
Takako Afuso: main vocal
Yosuke Inoue: acoustic bass & arrangement
Toshio Osumi & Taro Koyama: drums
Sachiko Yasui: piano
Yoshiaki Okayasu: acoustic guitar
Tetsuro Kawashima: tenor sax
Ken Ohta: alto sax
Yuta Kaneko: organ
Released in March 2006, Takako Afuso’ debut album “KON” won Swing Journal magazine’s “Golden Disc” prize, along with other accolades such as the “Jazz Disc Grand Prize 2006,” “Production & Planning Prize,” “New Star Prize”, and the “National New Star Prize 2006” of ADLIB magazine. Her second album, Mabui No Uta, was released in February 2007. Her official web is www.afusotakako.com
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Guy Low
Sr. Copywriter | MarCom
Bosch Communications Systems
Telex Communications, Inc.
12000 Portland Ave. South
Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-736-3935
Fax: 952-736-4582
guy.low@us.telex.com
James Edlund
Public Relations Manager
Bosch Communications Systems
Telex Communications, Inc.
12000 Portland Ave. South
Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone: 952-736-3901
Fax: 952-736-4582
