Hitomi Aikawa: Sweet
Sweet is the title of percussionist Hitomi Aikawa’s debut album. It was recorded and released in Japan in 2018 and contains fourteen of her compositions. A multi-instrumentalist, Aikawa plays various instruments on the songs and is joined on many of them by special guests Masaki Hayashi and Eri Uenoyama on piano, Hiroshi Suzuki on woodwinds, and Megumi Hattori on vibraphone. As for the instruments Hitomi Aikawa is using on each track, the details are not listed on the CD or in the liner notes. However, clues can be found on her website, where a list of her percussion collection is displayed, and it can be fun to use your ear to try and figure out which instruments are producing the sounds you hear as you listen to Sweet. Her large percussion collection numbers in the dozens and ranges from mallet instruments (vibraphone, marimba, xylophone, glockenspiel), hand drums (djembe, cajón, congas, bongos, timbales), tambourines, castanets, triangle, cymbals, chimes, blocks, Afro-Latin instruments, and many others. ...