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Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide: Perpetual Motion
ByThis performance was part of the annual festival curated by Fujii and her husband Natsuki Tamura at Tokyo's Pit Inn in January 2022. The duo consisted of a single forty-eight-minute performance which is sequenced into four tracks for this release. Their performance opens softly enough with Fujii opening her piano's lid and alternatively massaging the strings and knocking on its body, and Otomo plucking his own guitar strings. As the motion progresses, deep resonances of sound are elicited from both musicians. Fujii's prepared piano often sounds like a guitar with Otomo's guitar capturing echoing thunder and other rumbling vibrations. When the guitarist shifts into noisier territories with feedback, Fujii hammers her keyboard and its insides. The two are not so much in a conflict as they are in a oneness of purpose here. The music, at its finest moments, slows its pace and mushrooms outward with lengthened guitar notes which decay over a Fujii's keyboard explorations. Each quiet to loud section introduces abrasive noise as mini pinnacles before retreating into more introspective dialogues. This first meeting is indeed a triumph by two master improvising musicians.
Track Listing
Perpetual Motion I; Perpetual Motion II; Perpetual Motion III; Perpetual Motion IV.
Personnel
Satoko Fujii
pianoOtomo Yoshihide
guitarAlbum information
Title: Perpetual Motion | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Ayler Records
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