Jazz Articles about Keiko Higuchi and Shin-ichiro Kanda

Keiko Higuchi and Shin-ichiro Kanda: Passing and Longing and There Is Only a Trace Left

by Geno Thackara
April 15, 2017

With a resume in music that tilts heavily toward the avant-garde end of the listenability scale, Keiko Higuchi is nothing if not challenging. Small groups dedicated to free (in every sense) improv are alternated with solo abstract sound paintings using her voice and occasionally processed piano. She sticks to vocalizing and leaves the keys to Shin-Ichiro Kanda when they team up as a duo, which is described as the more conventional of her outlets--which is to say that there are ...