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$9.24

back in stock as of
february 19th, 2009

first in stock on
september 23rd, 2006

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best of 2006 !!!

antiopic (usa) #an 009 cd
antiopic live series (usa) #ls 003 cd

tetuzi akiyama / oren ambarchi / alan licht “willow weep and moan for me” three inch compact disc

willow weep and moan for me (18:48)

gorgeously subtle trio guitar / electronics set, jointly improvised by oren, alan, and tetuzi down in new zealand a few years back ... more than just a foot-note in the respective discographies of each, i’ve always found this a nice “transitional” piece as tetuzi’s blues-based playing got more abstract (eventually yielding “don’t forget to boogie”) & alan & oren’s more monolithic (ditto “a new york minute” & “suspension,” respectively) ...

antiopic press release...

tetuzi akiyama / oren ambarchi / alan licht
willow weep and moan for me

recorded 6 july 2004 at the bomb the space festival, wellington, nz

release date: 22 august 2006

an009 / ls003
running time 18:48

remove the chugging rhythm of the blues and you are left with the wail; that slow motion ghostly gasp of sorrow and bad omen. the high and lonesome sound of something wicked on the horizon is ingrained in this trio's shadowy and disembodied take on the blues. new york experimental music veteran alan licht, who has explored similar territory in his beautiful duo with loren connors, is joined by australian sound artist oren ambarchi and japanese improviser tetuzi akiyama at the 2004 bomb the space festival in wellington, new zealand.

using guitars the trio create an alien and minimal free-blues drone. akiyama and licht both revel in the spirit of blues guitar, intertwining high melodic lead lines and creating clusters of tense tone. ambarchi is a master at low end drift, and here the repeating low tones serve almost as a mutant version of a 12 bar anchor. all three players are deft at combining emotion with abstract playing (licht's rabbi sky, ambarchi's suspension, and akiyama's pieces for the wooden guitar series just to cite a few), and this set is an exemplary instance of engagingly emotive yet free playing.

$13.45

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october 15th, 2008

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november 25th, 2006

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archive (usa) #archive 26 cd

tetuzi akiyama / phantom limb “hot ginger” compact disc

hot ginger (31:40)

akiyama-san here completing a twin-guitar/twin-organ lineup of otherwise brooklynite children-of-the-night improvisors - in spots indiscernable from something the double leopards would do (well... would have done about 3 years ago when they were still together...)

picking out tetuzi’s unique voice from the mêlée is actually kind of tough - that could be him deferring to constant feedback-arc / motor-rhythm chug throughout. builds to a nice triumphant metalloid blat about midway through, loses a little steam, regains some of it, then wavers under the threshold for the remainder.

as far as tour-layover audio documents are concerned, just about anything from akiyama’s summer ‘06 north american jaunt is going to be worth your (half) hour, no matter what the context - this coming from someone who did a little improvising / fine dining / sight-seeing with the man himself.

archive press release...

tetuzi akiyama & chris forsyth: electric guitar
jaime fennelly & shawn edward hansen: electric organ

phantom limb + tetuzi akiyama “hot ginger cd”

audio - ontime meeting between tetuzi akiyama and phantom limb (1/2 of psi) recorded back a few months ago at freepoint radio in brooklyn. basically a 30min’ish improv drone piece for two guitars and two organ type things. all and all was a fun night with cool tunes so good to get this thing out into the world for more then the 20 people that were actually there to hear it.

package - single pressing of 500 copies dropped in a two sided silkscreened deal art work by fritz welch of psi and others, silkscreening from alan sherry over at siwa records. layout pictured below samples to come soon

$25.01

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march 8th, 2013

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june 12th, 2007

threads:
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best of 2007 !!!

bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 15 lp

tetuzi akiyama “pre-existence” long playing record

atheist (3:45)
reinforcement (4:01)
mystification (3:28)
fireside (4:42)
hollowness (3:28)
mutuality (5:16)
condemnation (3:51)
yearnings (3:32)

gorgeous set of minimal acoustic-guitar improvisations from tetuzi akiyama, nestled smack between the takoma-lineage and more gestural/“onkyo” notions of instrumental space. one his tetuzi’s finest recordings, as effective a rainy-day record as loren mazzacane connors’ seminal “in pittsburgh.” this absolutely comes to life on vinyl; highly recommended.

bo’weavil press release...

pre-existence
tetuzi akiyama

tetuzi akiyama is often associated with the improvising community in tokyo generated around tokyo's off site venue. but to tetuzi's sound owes just as much to the country blues guitarists of the '30s. his sound has taken the blues form into a new world of minimalist improvisations. his loose playing side steps the usual clichés of the guitar in both the free improv and traditional folk scenes. he can be heard to amazing effect on ,"time between", on the locust music compilation wooden guitar. also highly recommended is his spare blues ramblings on, relator, on taku sugimoto's slub label.

tetuzi has a varied number of very different projects from free improvisations, working with musicians across the globe, to hard minimalist electric blues boogies, a startling example can be found on idea records "don't forget to boogie" lp and headz live cd version.

$25.01

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march 8th, 2013

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june 12th, 2007

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 12 lp

donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama “vinegar & rum” long playing record

smokestack blues
grotto
distant steps
oblique manner
between the trees
grassy slope
lasting worth
table talk
painstacker
vague inklings
it was john
tales of the hump

duo session between new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and tetuzi akiyama; slightly detuned, lurching duo interactions bathed in a fine mist of tape hiss, excellent.

bo’weavil press release...

vinegar & rum
donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama

this lp and cd recorded in new zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and japanese guitarist tetuzi akiyama. a beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising.

this record finds tetuzi and donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.

the lp is limited hand numbered edition of 500, and has 2 tracks that are in an extended form.

$17.01

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june 12th, 2007

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bo’weavil (uk) #weavil 12 cd

donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama “vinegar & rum” compact disc

smokestack blues (5:16)
grotto (4:21)
grassy slope (4:46)
distant steps (3:41)
oblique manner (2:46)
painstacker (2:28)
fogbounds (6:58)
vague inklings (1:38)
erratum orbits (3:17)
table talk (2:57)
between the trees (5:39)
lasting worth (2:57)
it was john (0:58)
tales of the hump (3:06)

cd version ...

bo’weavil press release...

vinegar & rum
donald mcpherson / tetuzi akiyama

this lp and cd recorded in new zealand in 2004, is the duo recording of new zealand guitarist donald mcpherson and japanese guitarist tetuzi akiyama. a beautiful meeting of 2 virtuoso acoustic guitarists, both thoroughly schooled in the vast world of improvising.

this record finds tetuzi and donald playing melodic folk improvisations that grow and morph into compositions that on each listening uncover some new layer of beauty. both playing on acoustic guitar, they have a level of communication and understanding of each others playing, that allows a musical connection to grow and blossom into a full-length recording of delicate melodic mayhem.

the cd is limited to 1000, there are 2 extra tracks on the cd that do not appear on the vinyl version.

$15.12

back in stock as of
november 9th, 2009

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may 3rd, 2006

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bvhaast (netherlands) #bvhaast 0404 cd

tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissem “proletarian drift” compact disc

the golden mass, part i-ii (29:46)
ascension (13:42)

excellent improv set between akiyama (here on national) and van wissem (on... renaissance lute.)

bvhaast press release...

bvhaast 0404
tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissem
proletarian drift

tetuzi akiyama: nylonstring resonator guitar, tuned to renaissance lute tuning
jozef van wissem: ten-course renaissance lute

recorded live directly onto dat by simpoh yanagawa at gendai heights, tokyo, on april 2, 2003

mastered by pascal sloet tot everlo
photograph by kathe burkhart
layout by meeuw

released in january 2004

$11.76

new to stock as of
january 19th, 2010

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corpus hermeticum (new zealand) #hermes 040 cd

tetuzi akiyama / greg malcolm / toshimaru nakamura / bruce russell “international domestic” compact disc

tetuzi akiyama + toshimaru nakamura - physics room (14:37)
tetuzi akiyama + greg malcolm - dunedin public art gallery (12:42)
tetuzi akiyama + bruce russell - physics room (18:30)

april 2003 release ; a series of duo sets shared by guitarist tetuzi akiyama & partners toshimaru nakamura (no-input mixer), greg malcolm (“adapted” guitar), and bruce russell (electronics, clavioline) ...

while the nakamura / akiyama set is beautifully nuanced & quite natural (even though, purportedly, they had never played as a duo ; i.e. without a third - at that stage at least) & the malcolm / akiyama piece is a wonder of pointillist interjection, i have to hand it to the unlikely combo of guitar/clavioline on the third track ... the errant, duck-like squawks of the early electronic instrument sending the crowd into hushed giggles ...

corpus hermeticum press release...

$11.76

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corpus hermeticum (new zealand) #hermes 036 cd

tetuzi akiyama / taku sugimoto / bo wiget “periodic drift” compact disc

untitled (1) (6:52)
untitled (2) (2:44)
untitled (3) (3:21)
untitled (4) (4:30)
untitled (5) (2:29)
untitled (6) (5:23)
untitled (7) (3:19)
untitled (8) (6:30)
untitled (9) (5:59)
untitled (10) (1:37)

2001 release ; studio recordings (done in tokyo in april, 1999) from the guitar / guitar / cello trio of tetuzi akiyama, taku sugimoto, and bo wiget (respectively) ...

one of akiyama’s earliest recorded appearances, released concurrently with his “relator” set ; alternating between acoustic & electric (in accord with sugimoto’s electric throughout) he’s never sounded better ...

corpus hermeticum press release...

$13.44

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september 18th, 2012

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july 18th, 2005

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erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 044 cd

tetuzi akiyama / günter müller “points and slashes” compact disc

///./// (5:56)
.//..//.. (16:00)
/./..././ (3:29)
../../../.. (4:54)
//.///.// (5:22)
././././. (5:50)

erstwhile press release...

tetuzi akiyama - tape-delayed electric guitar
günter müller - ipod, electronics

over the past decade, swiss-based günter müller has collaborated with many of the most prominent tokyo-based musicians, recording cds with otomo yoshihide, taku sugimoto, sachiko m, masahiko okura, and toshimaru nakamura. points and slashes is the latest of these, a duo collaboration with guitar wizard tetuzi akiyama.

it's impossible to pin down akiyama, a musician of diverse interests and activities, with a brief description. he has been playing electric guitar since he was 13, and formed his first improvising band ten years later, in 1987. in 1994, akiyama formed the hikyo string quartet to play avant-garde classical music. since 2001, he has released a wide variety of solo guitar projects, filtering the blues through morton feldman on the stunningly gorgeous relator, shaping resonant feedback on resophonie, and showing off distorted john lee hooker-style chops on don't forget to boogie. he has also released collaborative cds with martin ng (oimacta), tim barnes/masafumi ezaki (futuro), jason kahn/utah kawasaki (luwa, ailack), and utah kawasaki/masahiko okura (bject, object 4), and is currently busy with as-yet-undocumented projects with alan licht, oren ambarchi and donald miller.

müller continues to distance himself from his roots as a more traditional percussionist, currently incorporating such electronic devices as minidiscs (since 1998) and an ipod (since 2002). he's been involved with innumerable projects and other musicians over the past twenty-five years, including long-term musical relationships with jim o'rourke, voice crack, erikm, steinbrüchel, jason kahn, tomas korber and philip samartzis. müller has released more than twenty records on his own for 4 ears label, as well as others on grob, rossbin, cut, charhizma, creative sources, and list. points and slashes is his sixth project for erstwhile, following the world turned upside down, la voyelle liquide, poire_z +, time travel, and tint. an integral contributor to the erstwhile aesthetic, müller is the only musician to take part in each of the five amplify festivals.

müller and akiyama first played together in the what is music? festival in melbourne, australia in 2002. they later performed in auckland, tokyo and nyc, before recording points and slashes in april 2004 in tokyo. points and slashes comprises six distinct pieces, warm and comfortable, yet still challenging the listener at every turn. friederike paetzold's strikingly minimal design is inspired by the work of the italian 'spatialist' artist lucio fontana.

$16.72

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november 20th, 2007

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august 30th, 2006

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improvised music from japan (japan) #imj 519 cd

tetuzi akiyama / martin ng “oimacta” compact disc

kyua scattered (12:28)
silver-brown (10:29)
lost angels (for henry flynt) (10:58)
dolphin hotel (9:42)

improvised music from japan press release...

improvised music from japan / imj
tetuzi akiyama / martin ng
oimacta

improvised music from japan, imj-519
released on july 25, 2004

recorded by chris townend at bjb studios, sydney on 24th july 2002
mixing and mastering by martin ng at araça azul and bjb, sydney
packaged in a cardboard jacket
design and artwork by keiko matsunaga

tetuzi akiyama: acoustic guitar
martin ng: turntables

tetuzi akiyama has in recent years attracted tremendous interest on the japanese and international improvised music scenes. in addition to performing many times in europe, america, australia, and new zealand, he's been releasing a steady stream of solo and group recordings on these countries' labels. oimacta, a duo album he recorded in a sydney studio with martin ng (turntable feedback), promises to become one of his most widely recognized works. akiyama's instrument here is the acoustic guitar. ng, who lived in sydney at the time of recording and has since moved to the u.s., is known for his duo album with sydney guitarist oren ambarchi, and for his participation, along with martin tétreault and otomo yoshihide, in the "turntable hell" uk tour of may '02. if you didn't know beforehand what instruments the musicians were playing on these four tracks, you'd be hard put to identify the sources of their sound. its rich colors, and the mysterious atmosphere it evokes, are awe-inspiring.

$15.12

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november 9th, 2009

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june 23rd, 2007

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incunabulum (netherlands) #inc 003 cd

tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissem “hymn for a fallen angel” compact disc

it never rains but it pours (14:49)
silver angels across the way (5:52)
the cry of the hawk (3:04)
the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom (3:27)
southern cross (7:16)
dark is the sun (9:41)
no murmur at the door, so frequent on its hinge before (8:08)

second disc from the improv duo of tetuzi akiyama (acoustic guitar) and jozef van wissem (lute) ; as the pair begin to have more of an understanding for each other’s modus, the music relies less on their individual roles and more on shared vocabulary...

sparkling, intimate recording; you can almost hear the tiny glass shards from tetuzi’s bottleneck fly off & assault the mic in regular intervals...

incunabulum press release...

incunabulum inc003
tetuzi akiyama / jozef van wissem
hymn for a fallen angel

tetuzi akiyama - martin hd-28 guitar, bottle neck
jozef van wissem - baroque lute, bottle neck, edits

barcode: 6 89076 54794 9

minimal classical contemporary folk blues played by japanese rising improv star guitarist tetuzi akiyama and dutch / american lute player / composer jozef van wissem, their second cd as a duo.

...

jozef van wissem / tetuzi akiyama

many guitar-players in the contemporary scene take a restrained, not-in-your-face approach to playing the guitar, an approach that is often highly personal and seemingly anti-virtuoso. they bring the guitar in new directions, in areas that maybe even derek bailey and keith rowe did not touch upon, drawing us even further into the specific sound of the guitar. one could think for instance of anette krebs, taku sugimoto or olaf rupp. and, of course, one should mention the tetuzi akiyama.

tetuzi akiyama initiated the famous off-site series of improvised music in tokyo (together with toshio nakamura), a series that became one of the birth-places of 'silent' electro-acoustic improvisation. as a guitar player akiyama has performed solo, and cooperated and recorded with amongst others taku sugimoto, günther müller, jason kahn and bo wiget. sometimes these collaborations lead to very sparse improvisations, with sounds that are on the brink of silence; sometimes they resulted in a layering of sound combining bleeps, clicks, shrieking electronics with relentless, yet not necessarily loud, sounds from akiyama's guitar. in his playing of both nylon- and steelstring acoustic guitars, and various electric guitars, akiyama focusses very much on resonance and timbre. this is most apparent on what is without doubt his most appealing release until now: the aptly titled don't forget to boogie (2004). on this cd akiyama plays the most rudimentary blues-licks often using a distorted guitar sound. he repeats the same lick over and over again, until it begins to 'boogie', and in the monotony of the repeated lick he brings out various overtones and rhythmic figures and little noises that are idiomatic to this type of guitar playing, but would normally be suppressed. the result is pure rapture and hypnotizes the listener, it is exuberant, restrained and minimal at the same time. although in his duo with van wissem we probably will not hear the 'rock 'n roll'-side of akiyama (his latest band seems to be called the satanic abandoned rock 'n roll society), there is even in akiyama's playing of the nylon string guitar, some sort of grainy, rudimentary influence of the blues – filtered through 40 years of improvised music.

jozef van wissem probably plays the most unlikely instrument in the world of contemporary improvised music: the renaissance lute. he has accomplished the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century free improv of the silent type – especially in his working duo with tetuzi akiyama. although van wissem uses subtle electronic sound manipulation, he has largely stayed faithful to the particular timbre, resonance and playing technique of the lute. this turns out to blend particularly well with akiyama's prepared guitar. van wissem first came to be noticed a few years ago because of his radical conceptual approach to renaissance lute music: he deconstructed existing compositions, for instance by playing them backwards. he also composed his own pieces for lute, using palindromes and mirrored structures. his music therefore does not have a traditional linear progression, nor leads to a climax, it rather stays on the same level of intensity. his music is quiet and not so much demands concentrated listening, as it will bring the listener in a state of concentrated listening – an aspect that makes van wissem a natural ally of the current post-reductionist improvising musicians. van wissem also manages the bv/haast label, and performs regularly around the world in duo with guitar-wizard of captain beefheart-fame, gary lucas.

$11.76

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november 30th, 2009

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october 5th, 2006

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rossbin (italy) #rs 002 cd

utah kawasaki / tetuzi akiyama / jason kahn “luwa” compact disc

luwa fabrik (21:59)
zurich (24:46)

rossbin press release...

author: kawasaki / akiyama / kahn
title: "luwa"
label: rossbin
format: cd
catalog #: rs002
time: 47:00

utah kawasaki: synthesizer
tetuzi akiyama: electric guitar and electronics
jason kahn: electronics

recorded live october 17, 2000
sonique serie 3, luwa fabrik, zürich
mastered by jason kahn

$14.51

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touch (uk) #to:68 cd

rosy parlane “jessamine” compact disc

part one (13:13)
part two (16:29)
part three (19:08)

november 2006 release from rosy parlane - i’ve been eagerly awaiting this moment for many years now as rosy’s first album “iris” has become something of a high watermark in contemporary digital-music circles, and is among my favorite albums of the last 5-odd years - he most certainly does not disappoint with this opus...

touch press release...

touch # to:68
3 tracks – cd only
48:42

photography & design: jon wozencroft

rosy parlane [nz]'s previous album for touch, 'iris' [2004] was hailed as a masterpiece by the red hot chilli peppers guitarist, john frusciante, who wrote: "...it’s such an incredible, beautiful energy inside of it that to me, it sounds like listening to a great pop record or a great rock record or a great classical record or whatever."

jim haynes in the wire wrote: "jon wozencroft's impeccable photography and design packages rosy parlane's 'iris' inside a predominantly blue package, inextricably linking the music to the emotional resonance of the colour... he flushes his soundfields with cascades of digital fragments which he separates into two distinct compositional categories. on the one hand, parlane stretches sounds from guitar, piano and organ into unrecognisable drones that swell into dense layerings, every once in a while coalescing into fluttering half-melodies. on the other, he emphasises the textural qualities of those digital fragments, simulating the natural acoustics of ice crackling from trees in winter or the gentle patter of rain on a windowsill. when fusing these together by placing the textures against the backdrop of the drone, parlane effectively builds pointillist sound environments with a profoundly human melancholia."

with 'jessamine', rosy develops these themes, and continues to incorporate new musical elements from unconventional as well as orchestral instrumentation. to him, everything is an instrument: from household objects to nature sounds, thus placing him firmly at the centre of the avant-garde. but it is the human element, as with all touch artists, which gives his work such a distinctive sound. ranging from ambient to noise, he gives full rein to textures of living; to start, languid and mournful; later harsh and assertive.

'jessamine' is a magnificent follow-up to a classic touch debut.

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cd credits:

written & recorded in auckland, nz august 2004 – august 2006

rosy parlane: electric and acoustic guitars, piano, melodica, accordion, violin, trombone, snare drum, shimsaw, amplified sawblade, bowed metal, household objects, contact microphones, field recordings, radio, computer

marcel bear: shimsaw on part 1

tetuzi akiyama: resonator guitar with samurai sword and contact microphones on part 2

individual guitar contributions on part 3 by lasse marhaug, anthony guerra, michael morley, donald mcpherson, matthew hyland, david mitchell, stefan neville, campbell kneale

shimsaws and amplified sawblade designed and built by marcel bear

$134.41

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erstwhile (usa) #erstwhile 033-040 cd

“amplify 2002: balance” septuple compact disc and dvd set

seven discs and a dvd!

disc one (outside festival shows)

thomas lehn / toshimaru nakamura (13:12)
günter müller / tetuzi akiyama / nakamura (19:20)
christof kurzmann / nakamura (24:08)
lehn / nakamura / taku sugimoto (13:20)

disc two (studio sessions) - günter müller / toshimaru nakamura - tint

.tint (4:51)
..tint (4:58)
...tint (15:11)
....tint (13:25)
.....tint (10:20)

disc three (festival):

cosmos (sachiko m/ami yoshida) (24:35)
keith rowe / lehn / marcus schmickler (39:29)

disc four (festival):

müller / otomo yoshihide (36:10)
lehn / schmickler (39:41)

disc five (festival):

burkhard stangl / kurzmann / sugimoto (24:00)
rowe / nakamura (31:49)

disc six (festival):

stangl / müller (33:43)
nakamura / sachiko (21:30)

disc seven: (seven guitars):

seven guitarists: rowe / akiyama / oren ambarchi / nakamura / otomo / stangl / sugimoto (cornelius cardew - treatise pp. 82-84) (38:25)
seven guitarists (improvisation) (31:03)

dvd - balance beams

"balance beams” (109:00)
5.1 surround sound audio-only versions of the rowe/lehn/schmickler and müller/otomo sets
three short individual features based on the three nights of outside festival performances that discs 1 and 7 were chosen from
including keith rowe discussing with the other guitarists how he believes a musician should approach performing the graphic score of cardew's treatise.

erstwhile press release...

thomas lehn - analogue synthesizer
toshimaru nakamura - no-input mixing board
tetuzi akiyama - amplified acoustic guitar
günter müller - ipod, minidisc, selected percussion, electronics
christof kurzmann - g3
taku sugimoto - electric guitar
sachiko m - sinewaves, contact mike
ami yoshida - voice
keith rowe - guitar, electronics
marcus schmickler - digital synthesizer, computer
otomo yoshihide - electric guitar, turntables, electronics
burkhard stangl - acoustic and electric guitars, electronic devices
oren ambarchi - guitar, electronics

the amplify 2002: balance box set has been designed and assembled to recreate as much as possible the experience of being in tokyo in late october 2002 for the week-long whirlwind of music and camaraderie revolving around the 2002 amplify festival.

the annual series of amplify festivals began in 2001 in nyc, followed in 2002 by the event documented in this box. amplify returned to nyc in february 2003, and the next amplify will be in cologne and berlin in may 2004, co-curated by keith rowe and jon abbey. the festivals are closely tied to the erstwhile label, and are designed to showcase an ambitious amount of music within a short time period, demanding increased attention and focus from both the musicians and the audience. this box set aims to convey at least part of the intense atmosphere created by amplify's climate of total immersion.

the amplify 2002: balance box set contains over seven hours of music on seven cds, consisting of:

1) eight of the twelve sets from the festival itself, which took place over three nights at star pine's cafe in kichijoji, tokyo.

2) two cds compiled from the smaller club shows which took place before and after the festival itself, organized by toshimaru nakamura and taku sugimoto, including an entire disc by the all-star guitar septet of keith rowe, tetuzi akiyama, oren ambarchi, nakamura, otomo yoshihide, burkhard stangl and sugimoto.

3) a studio recording by the duo of günter müller and toshimaru nakamura, recorded that same week. this disc has been carefully sequenced and constructed, and is essentially a regular erstwhile release contained within the larger box.

the box also features a dvd by filmmaker jonas leddington and a 52 page, full-color booklet with photography by yuko zama and twenty separate essays by many of the people involved in the festival.

leddington's dvd contains a 109-minute visual document titled "balance beams," which is built around the festival itself and includes structured excerpts from all twelve sets, commentary from the musicians, behind-the-scenes footage, as well as images and sounds from tokyo. footage of the stangl/kurzmann set includes cuts of viennese filmmaker michaela grill's schnee video, as it was shown live in tokyo.

the dvd extras include 5.1 surround sound audio-only versions of the rowe/lehn/schmickler and müller/otomo sets, as well as three short individual features based on the three nights of outside festival performances that discs 1 and 7 were chosen from, including keith rowe discussing with the other guitarists how he believes a musician should approach performing the graphic score of cardew's treatise.

the box set is a limited edition of 800 copies, and will not be reprinted.

$26.91

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improvised music from japan (japan) #imj 304/5 cd

“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)

improvised music from japan press release...

improvised music from japan
improvised music from japan 2004

bilingual english-japanese
192 pages; 21cm (h) x 15cm (w)
2 cds included (all but one track previously unreleased)

contentsspring road 2003

spring road 2003--europe and north america (tetsu saito)
pile of ashes / spring road 2003--japan (michel doneda)
exploring infinite possibilities--kazue sawai and the koto (kazue yokoi)
kazuo imai interview (yoshiyuki suzuki)

forget aki onda (ed baxter)

yumiko tanaka interview (toyoki okajima)

resonating out of rhythm and texture--a dialog with samm bennett about his new solo album secrets of teaching yourself music (shigenori noda)

tetuzi akiyama interview (toshimaru nakamura)

studio mescalina diary 2001-2003 (haco)

kazuhisa uchihashi interview (yoshiyuki suzuki)

from ria to ralia (ami yoshida)

masahiko okura interview (taku unami)

sachiko m interview--about the solo concert series bar sachiko (atsuhiro ito)

erstwhile 2004 (yuko zama)

view masters--a report on events in 2003 (h.v.m.)

uncomfortable orchestra--lmc festival, london, september 2003 (otomo yoshihide)

taku sugimoto interview (yoshio otani)

luc ferrari japan tour 2003--a report (haruyuki suzuki)

seoul meeting
introduction (otomo yoshihide)
kang tae hwan interview (otomo yoshihide) (interpreter: moon cheol)
park je chun, mi yeon, otomo yoshihide--a tripartite talk (interpreter: moon cheol)
cd reviews
japanese pages

$21.09

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march 2nd, 2009

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best of 2009 !!!

xing-wu (malaysia) #xw 5001 cd

“insight • xing-wu compilation” double compact disc set

climax golden twins - relinquish (4:47)
reynols - rasoyo jisos repuliom alfrazado (6:06)
toshimaru nakamura - preset #4 (nimb#28) (7:18)
zai de - ni-be (6:38)
volcano the bear - clayslaps (6:01)
yandsen - jargon (6:00)
tetuzi akiyama - sword (5:52)
thuja - untitled (4:39)
carl stone - swad (4:07)
tham kar mun - copula (6:12)
oren ambarchi - freeze out (8:30)
eric la casa - s'ombre part 3 (3:13)
jeph jerman - grackles (5:43)
loren chasse - script lichen (4:02)
eric la casa & jean-luc guionnet & dan warburton - music station (5:36)
taku sugimoto - bells 2 (6:07)
yin pin - psalm 3:4 (6:42)
axel dörner - marchlai (7:56)
anthony pateras & david brown - duet (as yet untitled) (4:10)
janek schaefer - maison a bordeaux (9:15)
andrea neumann - innenklavier (3:15)
yannick dauby - formless walking (5:41)
matt shoemaker - pantai ayu (5:56)
mnortham - epidermal filigree (5:40)
lee kwang - stormy weather (4:33)

2004 release ; first global transmission from the kuala lumpur-based “experimental musicians and artists co-operative malaysia” , whose various members contribute 5 of the 25 tracks herein ...

the other 20 are from a who’s who of the int’l sound-research circuit and are of phenomenally high quality (the exoticity of the label’s point of origin must have been a contributing factor in getting all involved to contribute vital examples of their work instead of 2nd-tier comp-track dreck) ...

what i’m finding the most enjoyable about this set is the curatorial aspect ... the wide variety of approaches and fidelities on display somehow all blur boundaries in a highly listenable fashion (i.e. instead of segueing the work of like-minded auteurs into dovetail-like situations, the digital pieces morph into the analog into the lo-fi into the composed into the improvised ... many labels could learn volumes from the sequencing of this record alone), making this amongst the first comps to have a “soul”, so to speak...

completely essential listening, one of my favorite comps from recent times ...

xing-wu press release...

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