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Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love: Otomo Yoshihide & Paal Nilssen-Love
by Eyal Hareuveni
The musical bond between Japanese guitarist and sound sculptor Otomo Yoshihide and Norwegian powerhouse drummer Paal Nilssen-Love was solidified through previous successful collaborations. First with Nilssen-Love Scandinavian power trio The Thing's Shinjuku Crawl, (Smalltown Superjazz, 2009), then with Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet Concert for Fukushima Wels 2011 DVD, (PanRec, 2013) and finally with an ad-hoc trio with fellow Norwegian noise master Lasse Marhaug Explosion Course, (PNL, 2013). The new recording of these expressive musicians was recorded ...
read moreMusik For Seks Elektriske Guitarer: Musik For Seks Elektriske Guitarer
by Eyal Hareuveni
Music For Six Electric Guitars was created by Danish guitarist Anders Lauge Meldgaard--member of the music and arts collective yoyooyoy--who wanted to expose the mysteries of the electric guitar. Meldgaard began to focus on the idea of a six-electric guitar choir after traveling through Mali and Burkina Faso, encountering the local music--its simplicity, discipline and tightly knit collaboration between the musicians. This project transforms Meldgaard's travel experiences into minimal compositions, based on extended repetition and microscopic--yet danceable--grooves, ...
read moreKumiko Takara/Massimo Pupillo/Paal Nilssen-Love: Raids On The Unspeakable
by Eyal Hareuveni
This limited edition, 12" vinyl album features a rare meeting of threeof-a-kind powerhouse musicians who blur the boundaries between contemporary improvised music, avant-rock and shifting grooves. Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and Italian electric bassist Massimo Pupillo (founding member of punk-jazz trio Zu) are the driving rhythm section behind saxophonist Peter Brötzmann's Hairy Bones quartet, and collaborated before in the trio OffOnOff with The Ex guitarist Terrie Ex, among countless other collaborations. Japanese percussionist Kumiko Takara plays contemporary music and collaborates ...
read moreEmergency!: Live In Copenhagen
by Mark Corroto
Surprisingly, drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki's band, Emergency!--formed in 2001--never performed outside of Japan until this 2006 date in Denmark. The quartet, also featuring guitarists Otomo Yoshihide and Ryoichi Saito, plus bassist Hiroaki Mizutani, covers the jazz compass in the same manner as 1990s Downtown bands Rootless Cosmopolitans and Junk Genius; that is, they sometimes reimagine standards by Duke Ellington, Burt Bacharach, and Lennon/McCartney in an entirely new dialect.Fans of Otomo Yoshihide may be familiar with his reconfiguration of Eric ...
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