L.E.D.

L.E.D. is a jam band that formed in 2000. The band is made up of seven career musicians who are in popular bands. Due to the constraints each member has by being in established bands, L.E.D. is a sporadically active group. The members are Motohiko Sato (bass, programming and composition) from JacksonVibe, Yuichiro Kato (saxophone and composition) from NATSUMEN and Calm, Koji Ota (drums and composition) from Sokabe Keiichi BAND, Kazuhiko Umeda (guitar), Takeshi Shiokawa (guitar), Hiroaki Yokoyama (keyboards and composition) and KAKUEI (percussion) from Overground Acoustic Underground.

With all this talent in one band, they are able to woo crowds and have been a crowd favorite since their inception. In 2003 they released their first mini-album containing four songs entitled, "Light Emitting Diode". They were heavily inspired by 70's Miles and Weather Report and that can be seen in their music with brushes of jazz, house, ambient, minimal, electronica, and krautrock. Beyond their unique brand of jam music, they paint soundscapes by having a strong affinity towards images and psychedelics. In December of 2009 they released their long awaited first album, "GAIA DANCE". · close