Enigma (Tak Matsumoto album)

enigma
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 27, 2016
GenreJazz fusion, hard rock
Length68:52 (with bonus track)
LabelBeing Inc.
Tak Matsumoto chronology
New Horizon
(2014)
enigma
(2016)
Electric Island, Acoustic Sea (w/ Daniel Ho)
(2017)

enigma is the eleventh solo studio album by Japanese guitarist Tak Matsumoto, of B'z. It is mostly an instrumental album (except for the title track, its reprise, "Drifting", "Hopes", "Under the Sun" and "#1090 ~Million Dreams~") and it was released by Being Inc. on April 27, 2016, in Japan. The album debuted at #4 on the Oricon weekly album chart and at #18 on the Billboard Japan album chart.

Matsumoto first mentioned an upcoming solo effort during Wowow's live coverage of the 2016 Grammy Awards, in which he was a guest. "Vermillion Palace" and "Mystic Journey" are the opening and ending themes of Tokyo Broadcasting System Television's show The WORLD Heritage, respectively. "Ups and Downs" is the theme to an Ukiyo-e exhibition in the Bunkamura Museum in Tokyo.