If you’ve never heard of Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions, try and imagine what they sound like just from their name. Did you guess at “death jazz” (their term) made by a Japanese sextet? Of course you did. The group are well-known on the jazz scene in Tokyo, where they started out in 2001 before going global in 2004 with their critically acclaimed debut album, Pimpin’. The BBC’s Gilles Peterson has always been a supporter, playing tracks from Pimpin’ (Waltz for a Goddess, A Wheel Within a Wheel) on his Worldwide show and inviting them to play his clubnight in London back in 2005. In the same year, they won the John Peel Play More Jazz Award at Peterson’s annual Worldwide Awards.
Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions are a prolific group, releasing an album a year since 2004. And there’s no better introduction to the group than seeing them live at Glastonbury. To say they’re energetic doesn’t do them justice - they’re exhilarating, intense and immense; the very definition of an explosive modern jazz group.
If you’ve never heard of Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions, try and imagine what they sound like just from their name. Did you guess at “death jazz” (their term) made by a Japanese sextet? Of course you did. The group are well-known on the jazz scene in Tokyo, where they started out in 2001 before going global in 2004 with their critically acclaimed debut album, Pimpin’. The BBC’s Gilles Peterson has always been a supporter, playing tracks from Pimpin’ (Waltz for a Goddess, A Wheel Within a Wheel) on his Worldwide show and inviting them to play his clubnight in London back in 2005. In the same year, they won the John Peel Play More Jazz Award at Peterson’s annual Worldwide Awards.
Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions are a prolific group, releasing an album a year since 2004. And there’s no better introduction to the group than seeing them live at Glastonbury. To say they’re energetic doesn’t do them justice - they’re exhilarating, intense and immense; the very definition of an explosive modern jazz group.
