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Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree
ByIt is a solo effort in the sense that it is all Tamurawith the exception of pianist/composer Satoko Fujii's banshee vocalese on "Summer Wind," one of four "Summer" compositions from Tamura, including the title tune, "Summer Color" and "Summer Dream." But it isn't Tamura alone with his horn. He overdubs extended techniques, he plays piano, and a wok, and makes soundscapes as dense as Phil Spector's wall of sound, full of deep drones and low rumbles of thunder. Touchstones? Arve Henriksen, Nils Petter Molvaer, even Miles Davis on "Great Expectations," from the Big Fun (Columbia, 1974) album.
"Out there?" Definitely. But mesmerizingly so. Tamura is a man with a keen sense of humor. The cover art for his 2021 Bandcamp release, Natsuki Tamura Plays Trumpet (Self Produced) shows him with his horn held backwards, his face buried in brass, the mouthpiece pointing forward like a rifle barrel. He is known to chirp like a bird, quack like a duck, and pass gas like a flatulent Basset Hound with his trumpet in any number of recordings of his and Fujii's. But Summer Tree seems ominous, haunted, a contemplation of the arrival of Judgment Day, and the Deity is not happy, like those cyborgs from Hada Hada.
Track Listing
Summer Tree; Summer Color; Summer Wind; Summer Dream.
Personnel
Natuski Tamura
trumpetAdditional Instrumentation
Natsuki Tamura: trumpet, wok, piano; Satoko Fujii: voice (3).
Album information
Title: Summer Tree | Year Released: 2022 | Record Label: Libra Records
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