Monthly Archives: March 2018

taku sugimoto | opposite (1998)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Ed Howard

1997 was a pivotal year for Taku Sugimoto. He recorded two more albums in the first half of the year, further honing the gentle aesthetic he’d been increasingly exploring on his other recent projects. Though the electric album Flagments of … Continue reading →

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taku sugimoto | myshkin musicu for electric guitar (1996)

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Ed Howard

Taku Sugimoto’s second full-length solo guitar album (following 1988’s very different Mienai Tenshi) finds him moving more conclusively towards the spacious, searching sound that would come to define his playing through the early years of the 2000s. The 3″ EP … Continue reading →

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taku sugimoto | alto (1995)

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Ed Howard

After 1994’s Slub: Unaccompanied Violoncello Solo, Taku Sugimoto stopped playing the cello, to which he’d devoted the past few years, and returned to the electric guitar. The resulting 20-minute 3″ CD, again released on Sugimoto’s own Slub Music label, was … Continue reading →

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taku sugimoto | slub: unaccompanied violoncello solo (1994)

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Ed Howard

It’s hard to imagine now, but like many of the young Japanese musicians who contributed to the turn-of-the-millennium Tokyo-based minimalist scene, Taku Sugimoto did not start his musical career with the restraint and patience for which he eventually became known. … Continue reading →

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