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taku sugimoto | opposite (1998)
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
taku sugimoto | myshkin musicu for electric guitar (1996)
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
Posted in 1996, eai, free improv
Tagged Atsuko Ohno, Brent Gutzeit, Kevin Drumm, Michael Colligan, Michael Hartman, Slub Music, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama
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taku sugimoto | alto (1995)
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
taku sugimoto | slub: unaccompanied violoncello solo (1994)
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
michael pisaro | shades of eternal night (2018)
The second of two new releases on Michael Pisaro’s revived Gravity Wave imprint, Shades of Eternal Night is far less startling than its companion piece – Étant donnés, on which Pisaro builds tracks around Curtis Mayfield, John Carpenter, and Dmitri … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, composition, electronic, field recordings
Tagged Gravity Wave, Michael Pisaro, Reinier van Houdt
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michael pisaro | étant donnés (2018)
Michael Pisaro’s Gravity Wave label has been dormant since the release of 2014’s 3-disc Continuum Unbound set, although the composer’s prolific output has hardly slowed in the intervening years. Nevertheless, this year finds him reviving his own imprint starting with … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, composition, electronic, musique concrète
Tagged Gravity Wave, Michael Pisaro
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evan parker / derek bailey / han bennink | the topography of the lungs (1970)
The Topography of the Lungs is one of the crucial early documents of European free improvisation. Recorded in July 1970, this lively, inventive trio record introduced a decade in which European free jazz would increasingly splinter from its American progenitors, … Continue reading
Posted in 1970, free improv
Tagged Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Incus Records
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max neuhaus / john cage | fontana mix-feed (1966)
Technically, this LP consists of four realizations of John Cage’s 1958 Fontana Mix, an indeterminate graphic score originally intended to be used for a tape piece, with or without additional instruments. To say that, though, is not really to capture … Continue reading
Posted in 1966, composition, musique concrète, noise
Tagged John Cage, Max Neuhaus, New York School
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fraufraulein | extinguishment (2015)
Anne Guthrie and Billy Gomberg have been playing together as Fraufraulein for years now, and have recorded a number of albums, but this is my first encounter with the duo. Guthrie is a French horn player, Gomberg plays bass guitar, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, eai
Tagged Anne Guthrie, Another Timbre, Billy Gomberg, Fraufraulein
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radu malfatti | one man and a fly (2015)
Radu Malfatti has covered a fair bit of ground over the years, from his early post-jazz/free improv playing to his ’90s reinvention as a Wandelweiser composer to his various collaborations with Mattin, Keith Rowe, and many others. One thing he’s … Continue reading
