Meeting at Off Site Vol. 3

Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-515
Released in December 2003
Purchase price in Japan: 2,000 yen (tax not included)
(For purchase outside of Japan, prices vary.)

• 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 at Off Site in Yoyogi, Tokyo, May-October 2002
• Compiled by Toshimaru Nakamura and Tetuzi Akiyama
• CD edited and mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura
• Packaged in a cardboard jacket
• CD and jacket design by tanabems

Toshimaru Nakamura: no-input mixing board (1, 2, 5, 6)
Tetuzi Akiyama: electric guitar (1), resonator guitar (2, 3), acoustic guitar (4, 6), amplified acoustic guitar (5)

1. (6:23) Hakon Kornstad (sax), Tetuzi Akiyama (electric guitar), and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)
   Recorded on May 11, 2002
   
   
2. (7:23) Masafumi Ezaki (trumpet), Tetuzi Akiyama (resonator guitar), and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)
   Recorded on June 1, 2002
   
   
3. (19:17) o.blaat (power book), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Tetuzi Akiyama (resonator guitar)
   Recorded on July 5, 2002
   
   
4. (11:14) Oren Ambarchi (electric guitar), Keiichi Sugimoto (electric guitar), and Tetuzki Akiyama (acoustic guitar)
   Recorded on August 10, 2002
   
   
5. (9:54) Paul Hood (GP3, etc.), Tetuzi Akiyama (amplified acoustic guitar), and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)
   Recorded on September 6, 2002
   
   
6. (13:32) Günter Müller (electronics, selected drums), Tetuzi Akiyama (acoustic guitar), and Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)
   Recorded on October 12, 2002

Gallery Off Site in Yoyogi, Tokyo, is one of the world's most well known venues for new improvised music. Meeting at Off Site, the monthly improvisational performance series hosted by Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura, has in recent years been Off Site's main event. The six tracks on this CD are edited recordings of the Meetings of May through October, 2002. This is the final collection of original-format Meetings, in which hosts Akiyama and Nakamura improvised with one or two guest musicians from Japan or overseas. (Subsequently, the format was changed to a solo session by a guest musician.) In other words, it is the final segment of a trilogy. Here is the "Off Site sound," characterized by extreme quietness and sparsity of sound. As a document of internationally recognized cutting-edge improvised music, Meeting at Off Site Vol. 3 should not be missed. Guest musicians are Hakon Kornstad, Masafumi Ezaki, o.blaat, Sachiko M, Oren Ambarchi, Keiichi Sugimoto, Paul Hood, and Günter Müller.

Improvised Music from Japan home page