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previous artist: jun kawasaki		there are 7 titles featuring utah kawasaki in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: allon kaye

$14.71

back in stock as of
october 22nd, 2007

first in stock on
august 7th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
analogue-synth
guitar-themed

creative sources (portugal) #cs 027 cd

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

ailack (34:18)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "ailack"

“analog” improv trio date led by tetuzi akiyama (here on “tape delayed” electric guitar) with jason kahn on modular synth/cymbal and utah kawasaki on “dismantled roland synthesizer” ...

creative sources press release...

ailack | cs027

tetuzi akiyama tape delayed electric guitar
jason kahn analogue synthesizer, percussion
utah kawasaki dismanteled roland synthesizer, cell phone

total time 34:20 © 2005

recorded on 22 april 2004, tokyo, japan

cover design by jason kahn

$13.61

back in stock as of
april 19th, 2007

first in stock on
august 24th, 2004

locust (usa) #locust 56 cd
object (united states) #object 4 cd

bject “object 4” compact disc

1 (6:44)
2 (6:33)
3 (22’54)
4 (16’50)

4th outing in the locust “object” series and... wow. fantastic trio date by masahiko okura, tetuzi akiyama, and utah kawasaki working in & out of both the “all encompassing no music” and maximal synth-blat/humor-driven uplink factory/zero gravity scenes. very gratifying in a fluxus non/anti-music sense, but also a feasible outing for the eai purist given akiyama’s (omni) presence @ amplify 2003.

locust press release...

masahiko okura - tubes and alto sax
tetuzi akiyama - turntable without records, contact microphone and electric guitar
utah kawasaki - analog synthesizer, cellular phone and contact microphone

following their knock out debut on japan’s hibari label, the collective trio bject comprised of three fabled players in tokyo’s vibrant onkyo scene – masahiko okura, tetuzi akiyama & utah kawasaki – deliver us the 4th installment in our object series of creative improvised sound. over four tracks, cell phone trickle, turntable w/out records, disemboweled guitar, willowing tube & saxophone chirps & ticklish synthesizer sputter produce a warm, surprisingly shapely textural soundfield.

$16.72

new to stock as of
november 20th, 2007

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones
experimental-instruments

meenna (japan) #meenna 333 cd

septet “septet” compact disc

untitled (1) (47:48)
untitled (2) (19:48)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (2)"

meenna press release...

ftarri / meenna
takefumi naoshima / hirozumi takeda / utah kawasaki / mitsuteru takeuchi / toshihiro koike / takahiro kawaguchi / yasuo totsuka
septet

meenna-333
out july 29, 2007

takefumi naoshima: mixing board
hirozumi takeda: guitar
utah kawasaki: guitar
mitsuteru takeuchi: flute
toshihiro koike: trombone
takahiro kawaguchi: remodeled counters
yasuo totsuka: compressor

recorded by masae okura at tanker, tokyo, september 10, 2006
mastered by toshimaru nakamura, tokyo, december 16, 2006
design by yasuo totsuka

includes liner notes by takefumi naoshima (english | japanese) and toshiya tsunoda (english | japanese)

group improvisation mixing acoustic and electric/electronic instruments. although there are seven players, the music consists entirely of faint sounds and silences from beginning to end. this ambitious recording communicates the strong determination with which the artists confront music.

this cd is a document of a studio-recorded improvisation session. all seven musicians play extremely quietly. (they would probably play this way in a live performance, too.) so quietly that almost all of the "played" sounds are softer than the sounds resulting from the physical action of playing music -- the touching of instruments, the rustling of clothes, etc. so quietly that outside noises which faintly penetrate into the sealed recording studio can be heard over the music.

in this music it's extremely unclear what is going on. it's as if someone had secretly recorded the sound of office work. sounds occur, but the musicians themselves may not be completely sure whether they were produced intentionally. this really is a curious document. it isn't the kind of playing that brings out the atmosphere of the performance venue. the focus here is on the softness, or near-inaudibility, of the sound. very soft sounds do not linger, physically or psychologically. they contain too little energy to reverberate, and leave a weak impression because they tend not to remain in the listener's memory. this is the unique quality of quiet sound.

so perhaps this is an attempt to look closely at quiet sound as an element of music or performance. it is certainly not the kind of music that attempts to elicit subtle listening -- if it were, the background noises would not be offhandedly left in. interestingly, though, the character of the music slowly emerges as we listen. and gradually we find that we are focusing on a fresh, new form of improvisation.

(from the liner notes by toshiya tsunoda)

$11.41

back in stock as of
march 29th, 2008

first in stock on
october 5th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rossbin (italy) #rs 002 cd

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

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

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "luwa fabrik"

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

$11.54

back in stock as of
september 27th, 2007

first in stock on
september 27th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

a bruit secret (france) #abs 201 cd

“from_to” compact disc

utah kawasaki (synthetiser) / jean-philippe gross (electric conductor)
yoichiro shin (percussions / laptop) / olivier brisson (percussions / electronics)
masafumi ezaki (trumpet) / hugo roussel (self-input mixing board)
yasuo totsuka (mixing board) / quentin dubost (guitar)
masahiko okura (bass tube) / sharif shenaoui (guitar)
ami yoshida (voice) / alfredo costa monteiro (accordion)
taku unami (banjo) / david n.mayer (prepared guitar)
kazushige kinoshita (violin) / fabrice eglin (guitar / amp)

interesting cultural-exchange disc, with the cream of the japanese hibari scene going toe to toe with a selection of artists from the a bruit secret & vert pituite rosters...

a bruit secret press release...

various artists
from_to
[cd]
abs201

(a coproduction by hibarimusic, fragment, pricilia, vertpituite & a bruit secret)

depicted on record is an a-topics meeting in music in the open space between two scenes.the 8 duets open on experimental proposals: 8 improvised musical meetings in the suspended time of mail exchanges. east to the west, japan & france.1+1 = 3. the musical arithmetic differs from what we were taught at school.each duet creates a sonic hybrid with a third element born out of the encounter of the musical identities.

hibari / abruitsecret / fragment / pricilia / vertpituite : from_to found its source in the will of 5 labels to gather young musicians from lebanon, france and japan playing in the fields of electroacoustic and improvised music. to renew them.

$13.09

back in stock as of
november 25th, 2008

first in stock on
march 30th, 2007

ash international (uk) #ash 3.6 cd

“chiky(u)u” compact disc

unknown artist - quake (0:50)
hatohan - eldorado (7:50)
utah kawasaki - low capacitance (3:13)
msbr - the hollow sea (3:32)
aube - crackstratum (8:16)
koji marutani - scenes 4 (8:31)
msbr - the hollow ground (6:37)
akira yamamichi - topography i - v (sand dust / limestone cave / dead mine / crystal frequency / magnetic field) (4:58)
toru yamanaka - weathering 2 (5:05)
tamaru - water margin (5:56)
tak++ - listening point 20 (8:16)

ash international press release...

ash # ash 3.6
cd - 78:14
11 tracks

$16.72

back in stock as of
november 20th, 2007

first in stock on
august 30th, 2006

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation

improvised music from japan (japan) #imj 501 cd

“meeting at off site vol. 1” compact disc

ami yoshida (voice)
brett larner (amplified ukelin)
nakamura and akiyama (7:40)
thomas ankersmit (sax)
taku sugimoto (guitar)
nakamura and akiyama (6:32)
tetsuro yasunaga (electronics)
nakamura and akiyama (5:07)
toshihiro koike (trombone)
taku sugimoto (guitar)
nakamura and akiyama (7:50)
utah kawasaki (synthesizer)
nakamura and akiyama (8:44)
jason roebke (bass)
taku sugimoto (guitar)
nakamura and akiyama (11:53)
otomo yoshihide (guitar)
gregor hotz (sax)
taku sugimoto (guitar)
akiyama (7:01)
michel henritzi (md players / electronics)
taku sugimoto (guitar)
nakamura and akiyama (4:34)
sachiko m (sampler with sinewave)
bruno meillier (synthesizer / electronics) (5:06)
seymour wright (sax)
nakamura and akiyama (4:33)

improvised music from japan press release...

improvised music from japan / imj
meeting at off site vol. 1

reset, reset 003 | improvised music from japan, imj-501
released in april 2002

toshimaru nakamura and tetuzi akiyama, with guests as indicated in the track list below
liner notes in english and japanese by toshimaru nakamura
recorded live by tetuzi akiyama and taku sugimoto at off site in yoyogi, tokyo, 2000-2001
compiled, edited and mastered by toshimaru nakamura
produced by toshimaru nakamura and yoshiyuki suzuki
packaged in a cardboard jacket
cd and jacket design by masae tanabe

toshimaru nakamura (no-input mixing board)
tetuzi akiyama (guitar, turntable, contact microphones)

ami yoshida (voice), brett larner (amplified ukelin), nakamura, and akiyama (7:40)
thomas ankersmit (sax), taku sugimoto (guitar), nakamura, and akiyama (6:32)
tetsuro yasunaga (electronics), nakamura, and akiyama (5:07)
toshihiro koike (trombone), taku sugimoto (guitar), nakamura, and akiyama (7:50)
utah kawasaki (synthesizer), nakamura, and akiyama (8:44)
jason roebke (bass), taku sugimoto (guitar), nakamura, and akiyama (11:53)
otomo yoshihide (guitar), gregor hotz (sax), taku sugimoto (guitar), and akiyama (7:01)
michel henritzi (md players, electronics), taku sugimoto (guitar), nakamura, and akiyama (4:34)
sachiko m (sampler with sinewave), and bruno meillier (synthesizer, electronics) (5:06)
seymour wright (sax), nakamura, and akiyama (4:33)

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