axel dörner / nobuyoshi ino / kazuo imai / noritaka tanaka “rostbeständige zeit” double compact disc set

• for (9:46)
  
• of (15:26)
  
• or (16:54)
  
• if (17:17)
  
  
• background beneath (8:46)
  
• schneller-langsamer (4:03)
  
• nicht-weit (9:10)
  
• viaduct (6:33)
  
• weit-nicht (8:35)
  
• foreground behind (4:58)

doubtmusic press release...

axel dörner + nobuyoshi ino + kazuo imai + noritaka tanaka / rostbestndige zeit doubtmusic / dmf-132/133 street date : 14 march, 2010 cover : paper sleeve cover design : akira sasaki p & c doubtmusic this is the masterpiece of 2cds, splitting the music into improvisation (momentary composition) and / or composition. disc 1 is the improvised music by axel, ino, imai. guitar sound of imai is hot and tingling, ino plays careful his choice pizzicato and arco exquisitely, and axel's original sound bring 'out' into their music. their atmosphere of music is special one, cannot be similar from every music. disc 2 consists of all axel's composition. he play several tunes also on "die enttauschung" (with rudi mahall, etc) but every tunes' structure is very vivid. note drum playing by nori, who is invited to play by axel ! if jazz is survive in present day, this work is the real contemporary "jazz" today.

kazuo imai “blood” compact disc and digital versatile disc set

• cartoon (annette peacock)
  
• nothing ever was
  
• anyway (a. peacock)
  
• blood (2nd take / a. peacock)
  
• sarabande (johann sebastian bach)
  
• subconscious-lee (lee konitz)
  
• so in love (cole porter)
  
• well you needn't (thelonious monk)
  
• il n'y a pas d'amour heuereux (georges brassens)
  
• albert's love theme (a. peacock)

• butterflies that i feel inside me (a. peacock)
  
• paroxysm (imai kazuo)
  
• aw-1 (k.imai)
  
• il n'y a pas d'amour heuereux (georges brassens)
  
• kk-1 (k. imai)
  
• blood (1st take / a. peacock)
  
• extra movie

doubtmusic press release...

imai kazuo trio blood (cd + dvd) doubtmusic / dmf-124 (cd) / 125 (dvd) street date : 26 october, 2008 cover : paper jacket p & c doubtmusic imai kazuo guitar, ito atsuhiro optron suzuki manabu electronics this trio was formed by imai kazuo (guitar), suzuki manabu (handmade electronics), and ito atsuhiro (optron) in july, 2005. i'm using a controllable instrument along with uncontrollable electronic sound devices that may make the music somewhat difficult to remain stable, yet its context of where i am now is the one that is similar to jazz. imai kazuo, from linernotes imai kazuo is the one and only graduate of takayanagi masayuki's private guitar school. he played with kosugi takehisa's "taj mahal travellers" or takayanagi's "new direction", and what's more, he played with lee konitz, arther doyle, irene schweizer, barre phillips, and so on. he also organize "marginal consort" and "imai kazuo trio" recently. ito atsuhiro plays optron. he use a handmade fluorescent light as a instrument. he named it "optron". optron strike the intense noise. he control it as feedback noise or low frequency. he was also a owner of the legendary art space called off-site. off-site familiarized "onkyo" music as otomo yoshihide, sachiko-m, sugimoto taku, nakamura toshimaru, and so on. suzuki manabu is actually a engineer of electronic instrument for artists but recently he plays his own handmade electronics. his handmade instrument is very interesting and exciting. the sound is strange and hypnotic, not any old noise, it's his style. he collaborate with various artist, musician and dancer.

han bennink / kazuo imai “across the desert” compact disc

• attention (8:40)
  
• eyes right (9:06)
  
• left turn (5:30)
  
• go upwind (6:16)
  
• my eyes wouldn't focus (6:29)
  
• across the desert (2:30)
  
• imagination is obscene (6:54)
  
• what? where? (5:11)
  
• in fifty years i may be gone (2:02)

“improvised music from japan 2004” book and double compact disc set

• four color - ae (6:36)
  
• masahiko okura - entasi (5:32)
  
• shuichi chino - envelope (4:34)
  
• samm bennett - bang-up debonair skeleton (3:21)
  
• samm bennett - repairs (2:36)
  
• samm bennett - shimmy-she-bobble (2:40)
  
• tetuzi akiyama / martin ng - soul delay (6:10)
  
• yumiko tanaka - untitled (6:35)
  
• han bennink / kazuo imai - untitled (5:21)
  
• une chance pour l'ombre - untitled (11:18)
  
  
• optrum - volcanic kant (0:24)
  
• optrum - godzilla vs. ayaya (0:55)
  
• optrum - new motor head banging & dc/dc (1:18)
  
• optrum - 22 century gewalt woman (2:49)
  
• optrum - improvised music from hell (0:23)
  
• naoaki miyamoto - akatsuki ni (4:56)
  
• sachiko m / toshimaru nakamura / otomo yoshihide - untitled (20:04)
  
• mi yeon - untitled (6:14)
  
• park je chun - for togashi masahiko (8:54)
  
• kang tae hwan - untitled (7:42)