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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

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

Album: June
By TROUBLE KAZE
Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2017
Duration: 5:27

Trouble Kaze: June

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

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 ...

Trouble Kaze: June

By KARL ACKERMANN

Wherever pianist Satoko Fujii and her husband, the trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ply their trade, the unusual follows. Without fail, both--individually and together--have been the purveyors of a collective catalog that has never failed to astound. One of their many outlets has been the free-improvisational group Kaze with drummer Peter Orins and trumpeter Christian Pruvost. While Fujii ...

Uminari

By KAZE

Label: Circum-Disc
Released: 2015
Track listing: Tioky Astimo; Vents Contraires; Running Around; Inspiration; Uminari.

Satoko Fujii with her various ensembles: Ichicgo Icihie, Yamiyo Ni Karasu and Kaze's Uminari

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

Words like superb, outstanding or splendid are redundant when writing about pianist, accordionist and composer Satoko Fujii. With an average of five releases per year over the past decade, she is indeed one of the most prolific musicians. The abundance of her output though is never at the expense of its quality or originality. As the ...

Kaze: Uminari

By JOHN SHARPE

The prolific husband and wife team of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura has found yet another fertile vehicle in Kaze. French drummer Peter Orins and trumpeter Christian Pruvost combines with the Japanese pair In an unusual instrumentation. On their third offering Uminari the combo stretches the boundaries even more than on previous outings, and ...

Kaze: Uminari

By BUDD KOPMAN

Uminari is the third release, following Rafaele and Tornado, from the cooperative quartet Kaze, made up of pianist Satoko Fujii, the dual trumpets of Christian Pruvost and Natsuki Tamura and drummer Peter Orins. While the quartet's configuration is unusual, it is also different from Fujii's viewpoint in that she is not the leader, but rather one ...