Jazz Articles about Ikue Mori

Ikue Mori, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus

by Neri Pollastri
October 13, 2021

Questo disco è un esempio dei molti lavori prodotti nel periodo della pandemia, pensati e realizzati a distanza, registrando le parti ciascuno nella propria casa e poi “montandole" con l'uso di software e computer. I tre protagonisti erano appena rientrati in Giappone da un tour statunitense e da una registrazione a New York con il gruppo Kaze, quando l'esplosione del Covid-19 li costrinse ad annullare tutti i concerti in programma e a rinchiudersi nelle loro case. Una cosa ...

Fred Frith, Ikue Mori: A Mountain Doesn't Know It's Tall

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 26, 2021

Elettronica a gogo in questo album inciso oltre sei anni fa, nel gennaio 2015, a Esslingen, sud-ovest tedesco, tra due degli improvvisatori più radicali (ma per altri versi anche sufficientemente versatili, visti i molteplici terreni toccati nelle loro ormai lunghe carriere) in circolazione, Fred Frith, classe 1949, da Heathfield, East Sussex, e Ikue Mori, classe 1953, da Tokio. Le coordinate del lavoro possono essere a questo punto anche piuttosto intuibili, e in effetti non ci si discosta ...

Ikue Mori / Satoko Fujii / Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus

by Dan McClenaghan
November 23, 2020

Musical collaboration is problematic in Covid-19 times. Rubbing elbows with fellow musicians can translate to positive test results. But the music must roll on. At least that is how electronics wizard/laptopist Ikue Mori, pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura feel. Instead of getting together body and soul, the trio decided to swap sound files on the internet--Mori from her home base in New York, Fujii and Tamura from their household in Kobe, Japan. So sounds flowed across ...

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. While previous albums have either presented charts from across the band or off-the-map explorations, here they combine both. Three short collectives separate four longer ...

Ikue Mori: Mysterious Soundscapes

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 28, 2005

Laptop computer pioneer Ikue Mori is a musician with a vision. Mori began her career as an untutored drummer in the seminal no wave group DNA, than transformed herself into an improviser who juggles an array of interconnected drum-machines and samplers, and again into a laptop computer player who no longer bases her musical language on rhythmic conceptions.

She not only succeeded incorporating her highly distinctive, computerized soundscapes into a legitimate role in some of the most adventurous ...

Wadada Leo Smith: Luminous Axis

by Farrell Lowe
March 12, 2003

Wadada Leo Smith has been a leading proponent of the creation of a new world music since the late '60s, in confluence with Chicago's AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). Much like Don Cherry, Smith draws from a broad palate of world musics, and he's a musical pioneer of the highest order.Luminous Axis features music for trumpet with electronics, flugelhorn, computer-driven electronics, and percussion. The music presented here is spacious, thoughtful, and imbued with an overall ...