Results for "Circum-Disc"

Crustal Movement

Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2023
Track listing: Masoandro Mitsoka; Motion Dynamics; Rolle Cake; Shifting Blocks; No Twist; Crustal Movement.

Satoko Fujii: Crustal Movement

by Jeff Schwartz
April 21, 2023

In the first few minutes of “Masoandro Mitsoka," a soft wash of white noise becomes differentiated into piano, percussion, electronics and two trumpets as the acoustic instruments move from breath and friction sounds to identifiably instrumental ones. Next the ensemble reduces to the trumpets, and they move from parallel play to a clear conversation. When piano, ...

Kaze & Ikue Mori: Crustal Movement

by Karl Ackermann
March 24, 2023

Crustal Movement is the seventh album from the Peter Orins/Satoko Fujii founded quartet-turned-quintet, Kaze. Now billed as Kaze & Ikue Mori, it represents the second consecutive album from the French- Japanese collective where the electronics artist has played a significant role. The two trumpeters, and original group members, Natsuki Tamura, and Christian Pruvost round out the ...

Sandstorm

Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2020
Track listing: Rivodoza; Poco A Poco; Kappa; Under The Feet; Noir Poplar; Suna Arashi; Noir Soir.

Kaze: Sandstorm

by John Sharpe
November 16, 2020

French-Japanese cooperative Kaze continues to thrive on Sandstorm, its fifth release. This time out, the enduring line-up of pianist Satoko Fujii, trumpeters Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost, and drummer Peter Orins, is supplemented by New York-based electronic artist Ikue Mori, on a program of seven cuts from a NYC studio session in February 2020.

June

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2017
Track listing: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V.

June

By Trouble Kaze

Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2017
Track listing: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V.

Trouble Kaze: June

by John Sharpe
March 18, 2017

In its original form, the French-Japanese collective Kaze was already a novel proposition, with the double trumpet spearhead of Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost allied to Satoko Fujii's piano and Peter Orins' drums. But on June, the novelty quotient ratchets up a notch further with the doubling of the piano and drum set. That the additional ...

Part I

March 17, 2017

Album: June
By Trouble Kaze
Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2017
Duration: 5:27

Trouble Kaze: June

by Dan McClenaghan
February 22, 2017

Avant-garde pianist/composer Satoko Fujii augments her quartet, Kaze, with an additional piano and another drummer, to create Trouble Kaze, for the release of June. In Fujii's eighty-plus CD discography, Kaze can be counted as one of her most adventurous modes of artistic expression. With trumpeters Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost working an array of ...