Improvised Music from Japan

• Bilingual English-Japanese
• 160 pages; 21cm (H) x 15cm (W)
• Interviews, concert reports, CD reviews, etc.
• CD included

• Ami Yoshida Interview (Yoshio Otani) E-4
• Tiger Thrush (Ami Yoshida) E-7
• From an "Off" Site: OFF SITE and the Sounds Produced There (Minoru Hatanaka) E-8
• Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1 / Off Site Composed Music Series in 2001 (Otomo Yoshihide) E-10
• The Queen of the Sine Wave Kingdom Explains Herself: An Interview with Sachiko M (Takashi Azumaya) E-12
• Kaffe Matthews / Andrea Neumann / Sachiko M In Case of Fire Take the Stairs (Toshimaru Nakamura) E-15
• Anode Note (Otomo Yoshihide) E-16
• Ear-Openers: On Otomo Yoshihide's Ensemble Cathode and Live (Kazue Yokoi) E-18
• Toshimaru Nakamura Interview: On His New Solo CD, VEHICLE (Tadahiko Yokogawa) E-21
• View Masters: The Sound Collection and Observation Organization (H.V.M.) E-22
• Seiichi Yamamoto: The King of Creation (Christopher Stephens) E-26
• m-7 (Brett Larner) E-27
• Revived! FBI: An Interview with Uchihashi Kazuhisa (Takashi Azumaya) E-28
• An Interview with SKIST (Ken Kawashima) E-32
• minamo's American Diary (Tetsuro Yasunaga) E-35
• Hashirigaki: Heiner Goebbels' Musical Spectacle (Yumiko Tanaka) E-36
• An Interview with Phew (Shigenori Noda) E-40
• The Improvisational Possibilities Sought by Eight Strings: Tetsu Saitoh & Nobuyoshi Ino Bass Duo Interview (Mikiko Kameyama) E-44
• About the Music on Spring Road 01 (Tetsu Saitoh) E-46
• Check It Out, It's the Amorphone (Yoshio Machida) E-47
• The Logic of EMERGENCY! and VINCENT ATMICUS: An Interview with Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (Toyoki Okajima) E-48
• Shibusashirazu Orchestra at the Moers New Jazz Festival: An Interview with Teruto Soejima and Daisuke Fuwa (Yoshiyuki Suzuki) E-52
• Teruto Soejima's The History of Japanese Free Jazz
  • Review (Yoshiyuki Kitazato) E-55
  • Excerpt E-56
• Fresh Excitement on the Scene: A Unique Melding of Electronics and Improvisation: A Report on the Erstwhile Festival AMPLIFY 2002: balance (Yuko Zama) E-58
• An Interview with Jon Abbey (Yuko Zama) E-61
• Cassette Memories: Flickering Memory and Glimpses of What Lies Beyond (Aki Onda) E-62
• tamaru Interview (Yoshiyuki Suzuki) E-64
• On Utah Kawasaki's New Album, utah.mod.radi (Tetsuro Yasunaga) E-65
• Radu Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto: An E-mail Exchange E-66

• CD Track List / Comments E-1
• Editor's Notes E-2
• New CDs
  • Haco / Hiromichi Sakamoto ASH IN THE RAINBOW (Seiichi Yamamoto) E-25
  • Seaworthy (Josh McKay) THE RIDE (Seiichi Yamamoto) E-25
  • FESTIVAL BEYOND INNOCENCE: A BRIEF HISTORY IN 67 CHAPTERS (Samm Bennett) E-31
  • Shelley Hirsch / Uchihashi Kazuhisa DUET (Suzannah Tartan) E-31
  • Ruins / Uchihashi Kazuhisa RUINS + KAZUHISA UCHIHASHI (Suzannah Tartan) E-31
  • Emergency! LOVEMAN PLAYS PSYCHEDELIC SWING (Toyoki Okajima) E-51
  • Vincent Atomicus VINCENT I (Toyoki Okajima) E-51
  • Shibusashirazu Orchestra SHIBUHATA (Kazue Yokoi) E-54
• CONCERT NOTES
  • Audible Vision 1913/2002: Intonarumori Orchestra Recital (Atsuhiro Ito) E-74
  • shezoo's "The Prayer" (Kazue Yokoi) E75
  • Uchihashi Kazuhisa and the Merry People of Kansai (Jun Okubo) E-76
  • The Portable Orchestra's Open Workshops (Tokiwa Yasuda) E-76
  • Sound Junction 3 (Kazuo Imai) E-77
  • Preface to the Soemon Dictionary: Soemon and Tetsu Saitoh (Yoshiyuki Kitazato) E-78
  • Taku Unami / Masafumi Ezaki / Masahiko Okura (Michel Henritzi) E-79
• CD Reviews
  • SSSD HOME
    Burkhard Stangl / Taku Sugimoto AN OLD FASHIONED DUET
    Taku Sugimoto / Annette Krebs EINE GITARRE IST EINE GITARRRE IST KEINE GITARRE IST EINE GITARRE...
    Brett Larner / Taku Sugimoto DELUXE NAKAMURA
    Taku Sugimoto / Masafumi Ezaki / Taku Unami TRIO AT OFF SITE (Yoshio Otani) E-80
  • Otomo Yoshihide ENSEMBLE CATHODE (Hiromichi Hosoma) E-81
  • Sachiko M DERIVE (Takashi Azumaya) E-82
  • Seiichi Yamamoto / Philip Samartzis DANCE E-82
  • Repeat POOL (Tetsuro Yasunaga) E-83
  • Tadahiko Yokogawa VOLO INTERNO E-83
  • Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble DREAMS
    Otomo Yoshihide TURNTABLES SOLO LIVE, 28 FEB 2002 IN TOKYO
    Otomo Yoshihide / Keith Rowe / Taku Sugimoto AJAR
    Otomo Yoshihide / Taku Sugimoto / Sachiko M LES HAUTES SOLITUDES
    Philip Jeck / Otomo Yoshihide / Martin Tétreault INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURE #1
    Otomo Yoshihide / Masahiko Shimada MY DEAR MUMMY, GERMAN VERSION (Atsushi Sasaki) E84
  • Yoshimitsu Ichiraku / Kazushige Kinoshita / Taku Unami CYMBAL VIOLIN LAPSTEEL (Yoshiyuki Sugawa) E-85
  • Masahiko Okura / Tetuzi Akiyama / Utah Kawasaki BJECT (Yoshiyuki Sugawa) E-86
  • Installing SARASWATI (Toshimaru Nakamura) E-86
  • minamo .kgs (Darin Gray) E-86
  • Hiroaki Katayama QUATRE (Kazue Yokoi) E-87
  • Koichi Makigami / Ryoji Hojito OVER THAT WAY (Yoshiyuki Kitazato) E-87
  • Tetsu Saitoh / Michel Doneda SPRING ROAD 01 (Yoshiyuki Kitazato) E-88
  • Yasuhiro Otani SPREAD JAM (Hiromichi Hosoma) E-88
  • Yasuhiro Otani / Uchihashi Kazuhisa MR. SUMMER TIME (Hiromichi Hosoma) E-89
  • Ned Rothenberg / Uchihashi Kazuhisa / Samm Bennett ARE YOU BE (Yoshiyuki Kitazato) E-89
  • Aki Onda DON'T SAY ANYTHING (Yoshio Otani) E-89
  • Rashinban HAJIMARI (Naoko Suzuki) E-90
• Japanese pages: J-1 through J-69 and E-91

• Toshimaru Nakamura - Hank (5:28)
  Captured in the lounge of Studio Midi, Caudeval, France, on July 13, 2001
  
  
• m-7 / 7-5 (7:07)
  Composed by Brett Larner
  m-7: Fred Frith, Anne Hege, Brett Larner, Andy Nathan, Jonathan Segel, John Shiurba and Matthew Sperry (steel-string acoustic guitars)
  Performed and recorded without amplification, overdubs, effects or other electronic processing
  Recorded by Michael Trigilio at CCM Studio, Mills College, Oakland, CA
  
  
• Masahiko Okura, Masafumi Ezaki and Taku Unami (8:07)
  Masahiko Okura: alto sax
  Masafumi Ezaki: trumpet
  Taku Unami: lapsteel, computer
  Recorded by Taku Sugimoto at Off Site, Tokyo on August 25, 2002
  Mastered by Taku Unami on September 6, 2002
  
  
• Haco / View Masters - "Start Up" + "No Wave" (5:29)
  Haco: stereo bugscope
  Recorded live at Osaka Harbor Red Brick Warehouse in August, 2002
  
  
• Tetuzi Akiyama - convulsion / take 2 (5:24)
  Tetuzi Akiyama - prepared resonator guitar
  Recorded directly onto DAT by Tetuzi Akiyama at Laboratory of Phonique Aim, Tokyo, in August 2002
  
  
• Yoshio Machida - Malhar (an excerpt) (5:43)
  Yoshio Machida: amorphone, electronics
  Recorded live at Extrapool, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on February 23, 2002
  
  
• Radu Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto - Tenkaku (excerpt) (31:14)
  Composed by Radu Malfatti
  Radu Malfatti: trombone
  Taku Sugimoto: guitar
  Recorded live at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, on March 17, 2002

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